[Hogmann]

Mexican navy training vessel.
Now called the Mexi-can't Navy.



The Mexican Navy training ship Cuautemoc collided with the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday evening, resulting in damage to the ship’s masts and multiple injuries.
The New York Post is reporting that 200 people were aboard the ship at the time of the accident. Injured people are being brought to Brooklyn Navy Yard for evaluation, according to the Post.

Video posted on social media shows the masts making contact with the bridge and falling.



The tall ship, launched in 1982, arrived in New York Harbor on Tuesday of this week for a visit and has been docked at South Street Seaport’s Pier 17.


The Cuautemoc is now upriver from the Brooklyn Bridge with is AIS status as “stopped.”

[Hogmann]

Other videos available online but I can't get them to upload properly

[Hogmann]

https://gcaptain.com/mexican-navy-ta...ooklyn-bridge/

[William May]

A lot of times, they have cadets lined up on the spars, up on the masts. I was looking to see if bodies were falling, but didn't see any. If you look at video of "tall ships celebration" you can see all the sailors up on the masts. That's what I first thought of when I heard about it. Also, why was it moving backwards? Was the tug towing it, and not paying attention?

[kellyhound]

The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle", and is commonly rendered in English as "Descending Eagle", as in the moment when an eagle folds its wings and plummets down to strike its prey.

it sure plummeted down. He was the last Aztec emperor and now we know why.

[Pearlbracelet1]

If you look really closely at the first and second videos hogman posted, you can see guys hanging from the middle and rear masts. They look pretty securely strapped in/roped in, so I expect the two deaths might’ve either not been harnessed properly, or been crushed by that swinging middle mast.

[Hogmann]

A little update. The ship had departed from the Manhattan side of the river with the assistance of a tugboat. The tugboat is then normally released, and you can see it falling along but not attached in some of the videos. Some reports say that they had trouble getting their engines to work and that caused them to start drifting up river with the tide current which can be very strong there. The video is mostly shot from the Brooklyn side of the river and it appears to me that this ship may in fact have its engines running and stuck in reverse because it seems to be accelerating ever so slightly.

[Hogmann]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle", and is commonly rendered in English as "Descending Eagle", as in the moment when an eagle folds its wings and plummets down to strike its prey.

it sure plummeted down. He was the last Aztec emperor and now we know why.

Thanks for uploading those other videos

[Hogmann]

A great channel on YouTube that talks about shipping. Sal Mercagliano is like the Juan Browne of Maritime stuff.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by Pearlbracelet1 ↗

If you look really closely at the first and second videos hogman posted, you can see guys hanging from the middle and rear masts. They look pretty securely strapped in/roped in, so I expect the two deaths might’ve either not been harnessed properly, or been crushed by that swinging middle mast.

The two individuals killed were sailors who fell from one of the ship’s masts during the collision, according to a law enforcement official. The ceremonial tradition of sailors climbing the masts during departure likely contributed to the presence of crew members in the rigging at the time of the crash.