Large seaports have professional pilots who are responsible for personally taking over control and bringing large ships into seaports as well as returning them to open waters! This image relates to a cruise ship which has just left the seaport of Port Everglades, Florida, for the open seas. The pilot boat is making it's final approach to the cruise ship to pick up it's pilot and return him/her to land.
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