Maritime pilot

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Society

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A maritime pilot (also known as marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, and ship pilot), or simply pilot, is a mariner who has specific knowledge of an often dangerous or congested waterway, such as harbors or river mouths. Maritime pilots know local details such as depth, currents, and hazards.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Maritime pilot”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Nathan Sandel, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.