The ARM Cuauhtemoc sail vessel was visiting New York to mark the 250th anniversary of America’s independence
A sail coaching vessel of the Mexican Navy collided with the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday night.
Video from the scene reveals the ARM Cuauhtemoc’s three tall masts, embellished with lights, toppling after they struck the underside of the bridge’s highway deck.
The New York Put up cited hearth officers and its personal sources as saying that a number of members of the ship’s 277-person crew had been injured. The newspaper additionally reported that rescuers had been pulling individuals from the water.
The Latin Occasions reported, citing its sources, that dozens had been injured, together with three individuals in crucial situation. In response to the outlet, the barque’s crew possible misjudged the peak of the 171-foot masts in relation to the bridge’s 127-foot clearance at excessive tide.
In a completely gorgeous fashionable metaphor a ship blaring Mexican music and flying an enormous Mexican flag simply acquired destroyed by the Brooklyn bridge. Can’t make it uppic.twitter.com/AUJy0q3oFB
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) Could 18, 2025
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