Press: 'Air Tubes Saved My Life' from Professional Mariner magazine

Posted on May 15 2008

Florida pilot applies some lessons learned from his brush with death

Knowles is grateful that the pilots’ launch, a rigid inflatable boat, or RIB, has air-filled tubes on its sides. The 67-year-old pilot said those inflatable tubes prevented him from being crushed between the pilot vessel and the 293-foot containership Campeche Bay.

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