OT: Ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge
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Or the bridge was too short. Or it was a moon tide?
Apparently it's a Mexico Navy training ship.
BBC >> Mexican Navy ship crashes into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge
BBC >> Mexican Navy ship crashes into New York City's Brooklyn Bridge
Given the bridge was too short, the ship was too tall.
Tide at 6:30 at Sunday Hook was lowish.
Mexican pirate ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge and the Muslims flee.
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Just wait until DJT finds out the ship’s charts noted Rio de Pancho Villa. ICE will raid the Mexican embassy before sunrise with all staff deported to El Salvador in time for almuerzo.
You beat me to it. We think very alike. Why wasnt the height of the bridge adjusted for the ship?
BBC???
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Looks like second ship to "oops" lose power and hit a bridge.
The ship has made same appearance - as culmination of a training cruise - for 40 years.
The stern of the ship hit the bridge after losing power and drifting with the tides/currents
There were crew up on the masts
I’d imagine it was Tied up at Pier 17 and was backing out and then lost power. Rule of thumb is that every knot of current is equivalent to 10 knots of wind for how current can create a force on a ship. Looks like wind was moving pretty good too. Wind and current combination and close proximity to the bridge makes for short reaction time to drop anchor after losing power.
The East River (estuary with dangers) tide is known to be around 4-5 knots and with regular intervals
Hey, it's only been there 142 years. You have to give people time to figure things out.
Does the fact that there is even a tug involved dispute the loss of power theory?
It sure seemed like after crashing through the bridge it landed pretty softly on the other side. I thought it was going to crash into the dock as well.
I dunno.
Mexico Navy tries to take out key New York City transportation infrastructure. Act of war?
In Mexican Spanish, lunch is called comida. Main meal of day in Mexico lasting from 2pm to 4 or 5pm. Often lots of alcohol consumed.
Wonder if the ship’s captain was breath tested. The captain is supposed to the last person off the ship. Need to know if he is using that rule to hide in the ship and sober up.
Never heard of Joe, so I looked him up. At the time of the Exxon Valdez disaster, Joe's drivers' license was suspended for his third driving while intoxicated conviction.
How does a guy with three DWIs and a suspended drivers' license get a gig captaining an oil tanker?
This.
Every Tug Boat operator in the New York waters knows the heights of the Bridges. The Tug looked parallel to the ship in the video
Nah - its the weenies who do that!
Its actually kind of irregular to see an article about a large flagged, Mexican, Navy ship (described by some as a "pirate ship") crashing in NYC with women in full burkas fleeing.
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