There was “panic on the ship,” Brooklyn resident Nick Corso, 23, who was standing close to the water, instructed AFP.
He had been poised to take a photograph, however when he realized what was taking place he switched to video.
“A number of screaming, some sailors hanging from the masts, appeared like panic taking place on the ship,” he mentioned.
The Mexican Navy mentioned in its assertion that nobody had fallen into the water, and that no rescue operation had been launched.
The ship had been departing New York on the time and flags fluttered in its rigging, whereas an unlimited Mexican flag waved off its stern.
The Cuauhtémoc, in-built 1982, was crusing to Iceland when it crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge when it opened in 1883.
The incident is the second deadly ship crash into a US bridge in little over a yr, after a completely laden cargo vessel smashed right into a bridge in Baltimore, Maryland in March 2024, inflicting it to break down and killing six highway employees.
