Comment by 55555

Comment by 55555 18 hours ago

RIP to everyone who died. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but when you're standing on the mast, how can you not tell that you're about to collide with the bridge?

ceejayoz 18 hours ago

You can. You just can’t get down in time.

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brador 16 hours ago

Why not just jump into the water?

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- prmoustache 16 hours ago
  
  The boat being wider than the mast, you have a near 100% probability of just hitting the deck even when propelling yourself.
  Life is not a Super Hero action movie.
  
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  newsclues 15 hours ago
  
  You can jump away from the boat and land in water. And you can moved along the yards to get closer to the water.
  But the tallest mast is 158 feet and that’s a big jump.
  Source: was on a tall ship for a week, and done some cliff jumping
  
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- aetimmes 12 hours ago
  
  Jumping into water from roughly the height of the Brooklyn Bridge is generally what people do when they _want_ to end their own lives.
  
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- eCa 15 hours ago
  
  An unprepared 40 meter jump onto water? Even if you manage to miss the boat, water is like concrete from that height.
  
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  pmalynin 14 hours ago
  
  My back of the envelope math says velocity of about 28 m/s — call it an even 100km/h. Yeah seems kinda tough.
  
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- Spooky23 12 hours ago
  
  Into East River currents?id rather take my chances than risk certain death hitting the deck or falling into the river and getting dragged under.
  
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steveBK123 12 hours ago

Boat was supposed to be going the other way, lost power and drifted in fast current. It's only 1/8th of a mile from port to the bridge so there was at most 2.5 minutes of drifting, but possibly quite less depending on where they lost power and how fast the current was at the time.

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Polizeiposaune 12 hours ago

In addition to what others have mentioned, crewmembers up in the rigging are most likely wearing some sort of safety harness which would not be quick to remove/unhook to allow them to dive into the water.

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