Mexican Navy training vessel hits Brooklyn Bridge

[ZekeB]

So far, only injuries, and damage to ship reported; no deaths, no sinking:


https://apnews.com/article/brooklyn-...c38516985461c8


The Cuauhtemoc — about 297 feet long and 40 feet wide (90.5 meters long and 12 meters wide), according to the Mexican Navy — sailed for the first time in 1982.

Each year it sets out at the end of classes at the naval military school to finish cadets’ training. This year it left the Mexican port of Acapulco, on the Pacific coast, on April 6 with 277 people onboard, the Navy said then.

[Montanan]

Video of the collision with the Brooklyn Bridge

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ma...f1b8f441d&ei=8

[cal40john]

News speculation is all over the place, meaning they don't know yet. One reports the engine died, another says they were on sailing maneuvers leaving the harbor.

You can see in the video that they backed into the bridge.

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by cal40john

News speculation is all over the place, meaning they don't know yet. One reports the engine died, another says they were on sailing maneuvers leaving the harbor.

You can see in the video that they backed into the bridge.

Nothing new under the sun
https://gcaptain.com/incident-video-...p-with-bridge/

Looks like engine failure to me.

[El Pinguino]

A further look at the vids suggests that the pilot or master asked for an 'ahead' movement on the engine and got an 'astern' one instead. Then of course you give a 'double ring full ahead' and things truly turn to custard.
Don't ask.

[Johan Leopard51]

Ouch! Such a beautiful vessel!

What can’t be seen on that video is there is a tug next to her. What puzzles me is why the tug could not get to her stern and assist??

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by Johan Leopard51

Ouch! Such a beautiful vessel!

What can’t be seen on that video is there is a tug next to her. What puzzles me is wht the tug could not get to her stern and assist??

That tug had been pushing up on her starboard shoulder as she came out of the berth. Just no time to get a line to her BOW to assist.

[Franziska]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Nothing new under the sun
https://gcaptain.com/incident-video-...p-with-bridge/

Looks like engine failure to me.

That video of the Brazilian mishap might also have made the tugboat captain a bit hesitant in yesterdays Brooklyn incident.

[GordMay]

There were 277 people on board, when the ship drifted directly into the underside of the bridge, on Saturday night.
There were 19 people [aboard] injured, five critically, 2 of whom, have died.

[Dockhead]

Originally Posted by Montanan

Video of the collision with the Brooklyn Bridge

. . .

That was an ALLISION, not a collision.


/pedant mode

[El Pinguino]

Real sailors as opposed to 'sea lawyers' shall continue to call such incidents 'collisions'.

[Dockhead]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Real sailors as opposed to 'sea lawyers' shall continue to call such incidents 'collisions'.

You don't have to be a lawyer to want to use words correctly.

[Johan Leopard51]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

That tug had been pushing up on her starboard shoulder as she came out of the berth. Just no time to get a line to her BOW to assist.

Thanks - presently have not seen a trail of where she started and ended, sure that will come. On CNN there was a fairly long video of her from the other side of river than where she struck the dock and it just feels/seems like the tug was hanging off her starboard for ages rather than pop around the rear and try and ‘push’. It looked like she did drop anchor(s) but too little too late to arrest her before she struck.

The video on CNN shows her last say four boat lengths toward the inevitable crash into bridge. Can’t find that video on CNN website, only seen it on TV so far. There’s bound to be hundreds of CCTV cameras that caught it all.

I see now several confirmed dead - very sad for the sailors’ families.

[Mal Reynolds]

A lot of current there. I wonder how fast we all can deploy our anchors?

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by Dockhead

That was an ALLISION, not a collision.
/pedant mode

Thank you; I was waiting, for that.

Q: What's the difference, between a pedant and a pendant?
A: One is generally hung from the ceiling, and the other is a type of lighting fixture.