US EditionTurbulent waters may have contributed to Mexican tall ship’s crash into Brooklyn Bridge
- The Mexican Navy training ship Cuauhtemoc collided with the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening, May 18, 2025, in New York City after leaving its dock in Manhattan.
- The collision happened because the ship was moving swiftly backward under motor power, opposite to its intended direction, despite tugboat assistance that failed to regain control in time.
- The ship’s three tall masts, including a 160-foot main mast about 30 feet above the bridge’s clearance, struck the bridge, causing partial collapse and breaking of the masts while several cadets were aloft and left dangling by harnesses.
- The crash resulted in two fatalities, including 20-year-old cadet América Yamilet Sánchez, and at least 19 crew members needed medical treatment out of 277 sailors aboard the vessel, which was on a global goodwill tour.
- Authorities from the U.S. And Mexico launched a joint investigation expected to take months, with the ship remaining docked in Manhattan while most of the crew returned to Mexico and two injured cadets remain hospitalized in stable condition.
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The investigation into why a Mexican Navy training ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, shearing the top of its masts, will look into a possible engine failure and the role of a tug boat that assisted it in backing out of its pier, officials said on Monday. Syakir Jasnee reports.
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Turbulent Waters May Have Contributed to Mexican Tall Ship’s Crash Into Brooklyn Bridge
When a Mexican navy tall ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, it was maneuvering in turbulent waters. The tide had just turned, and a fast current was heading up the East River as a 10 mph wind set in. While such hazards are easily handled by an experienced captain, mistakes can be costly in the heavily transited New York harbor, where narrow, curvy channels, winds howling off the jagged Manhattan skyline, and whirlpool-like eddies can combine…
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