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The San Francisco Chronicle has published the Pilot’s Report on the
Cosco Busan Incident. Here are the parts of interest to mariners;

Meadows said problems also cropped up in “bridge management,”
the communication between the pilot, who had years of experience on the
bay, and the ship’s officers, who had never navigated the bay in the
Cosco Busan. All were supposed to work together and exchange
information on how to successfully navigate the harbor.

“While some information was exchanged, perhaps it could be said it
wasn’t a full transfer of information. It was enough for the pilot to
work with the master and get the ship ready for sea,” Meadows said.

We have previously reported on bridge management also know as Bridge Team Management or BRM.

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The article continues;

The Cosco Busan’s radar “conked out” twice - first
before departure and again as the ship was near the lighthouse on Yerba
Buena Island.

Cota was forced to rely on an electronic chart display,
showing the track of the vessel and its speed, plus charts of San
Francisco Bay. Meadows said the pilot told him he was “not familiar”
with the electronic system on the Cosco Busan. “They are all
different,” Meadows said.

Cota asked Mao Cai Sun, the captain of the Cosco Busan, to point on
the display to the center of the bridge span between the Delta and Echo
towers on the western side of the Bay Bridge.

“The master pointed that out,” Meadows said. “In fact, several times during the trip. That’s what the pilot was heading for.”

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“The pilot had to go along with what the master indicated on the
electronic chart display was the center of the span,” Meadows said.
“That turned out to be the tower instead.”

We have received email asking; Should the vessel have left without a
working radar? and Did the second radar work? …unfortunately those are
questions we can’t answer. You will have to wait until the NTSB
investigation report is complete.

Read the full SF Chronicle article HERE.

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