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A Mexican Navy tall ship named the Cuauhtémoc infamously crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge last month, killing two and injuring dozens more in a wild scene witnessed by numerous onlookers. The incident raised many questions, but a new report by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) actually raises more, if anything.
For instance, why was the ship moving backward? more
Drop the chalupa and back-away slowly.
The title asks, “Why Was It Going Backwards?”
The article goes on and on until the very last line.
The answer then is, “…we don’t have an answer.”
I’m pretty sure this what they call clickbait.
while I’ll admit I don’t know which way that river flows, I do find it possible that the investigators, and journalists, just don’t understand how a river works.
Forgot to unhook the jumper cables?
Wait, didn’t Schumer say this was Trumps fault?
It’s New York! Nothing goes right.
Mexico’s always been backwards.
Back to port?
Once the new mayor is installed, it will just blow up instead.
Trying to avoid ICE?
They were sailing under Biden rules, everything was bass-ackwards…
I didn’t really care about the article. I just liked it for
“Cuauhtémoc.”
Any Aztecs up in here who knows how to pronounce it?
Koo wahw tay moc?
@toby: “I don’t know which way that river flows”
Rivers flow toward the ocean, meaning that any ship going upriver is going against the current.
“Why was the ship moving backward?”
Female driver trying to parallel park it and failing.
You try to drive ship with Handcuffs on…Pendejo’s..
It was the Mexican Navy, what did you expect?
There was nobody competent to run the ship. Everyone who knew how to navigate a body of water had already crossed the Rio Grande into the U.S.
@MJA — Pronunciation of weird words is one of the things Wikipedia shines at. If you go to its entry for Cuauhtémoc, you can listen to either the Spanish or Nahuatl pronunciation. They’re pretty similar except for the accented syllable.
Spanish: kwow-TAY-muck
Nahuatl: kwow-tay-MOCK
“Rivers flow toward the ocean, meaning that any ship going upriver is going against the current.”
Not if the tide is rising. Tidal effects are felt far upstrean in that area.
It was going backwards because they lost all propulsion power and the river currant was dragging the ship into the bridge!
Anyone watching any of the videos of the incident can see that plainly!
if you are questioning this like the author of the article, tell me you did not watch the video and know nothing about hydrodynamucs without saying you did not watch the video and know nothing about hydrodynamics!
Clogged fuel filter? Forgot to raise the landing gear? Accidentally moved the engines to idle?