International Pilot - Issue 27

1 Message from the President 1 From the Secretary General 3 The Promise of E-Nav… 4 Address By His Excellency Mr. Georg Boomgaarden Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary Of Germany 7 SWATHs are Coming 8 Cold Water Immersion 10 An... More

1 Message from the President 1 From the Secretary General 3 The Promise of E-Nav… 4 Address By His Excellency Mr. Georg Boomgaarden Ambassador Extraordinary And Plenipotentiary Of Germany 7 SWATHs are Coming 8 Cold Water Immersion 10 An Appreciation of Captain Michel Pouliot 12 Criminalisation is hurting the whole industry and Pilots too 15 In Memoriam of Capt Fahrettin AKSU 15 New Book Portrays Tees Bay Pilots – “Navigators of Teisa” 16 Cartagena Declaration made at the Latin American Pilots Forum September 2009 INDEX THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARITIME PILOTS’ ASSOCIATION ISSUE 27, DECEMBER 2009 The International PilotThe International Pilot Dear Colleagues, I am writing this at IMO Assembly in a wet and windswept London, having just spent the weekend at a most productive IMPA Executive meeting on the Wellington. I am pleased with the progress now being made by the Executive on a whole range of areas, which I think you will find are the su Less