We need to push for a law banning ferries. This is completely unacceptable...except in Hollywood and the W.H.
shouldn’t allow ferries that carry more than 15 people
Live stream
ABC7
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8947393
NBC4
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Ferry-Crash-South-Street-Pier-11-186161082.html
CBS NY
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/live-video-two/
Per live report, 2 critically injured.
Normal weather/water conditions.
All ferries are being diverted, at present.
Per another report, ferry may have hit some ‘stationary’ obstruction in/under the water. [speculative, of course]
57 hurt, per ABC7
How many assualt rifles were involved? Were any hi-cqap mags located at the scene? Was the boat the SS Bushmaster?
NTSB sending investigators.
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This is MUCH more dangerous than a Big Gulp soda. Mayor “Jack-F***ing-Crazy” Bloomberg, get right on this!
Nobody NEEDs a ferry. They have no legitimate hunting purpose.
OMG!
TV Report says that ferries are NOT equipped with black boxes, so we may never know exactly what happened.
We need Congressional action NOW! All floatation vehicles MUST be equipped with black boxes IMMEDIATELY.
Senator Feinstein, PICK UP YOUR PHONE!
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Why wasn’t everybody wearing their seat belts? How come the airbags didn’t deploy?
They should limit ferries to 10 seats....to avoid mass casualties.
What if you had jumped up just as the boat impacted the dock? Would you feel it?
Well, it’s clear from the photos that there were no unusual seas and no high wind. The ferry looks like one of those double hulled planing boats. They are fast and efficient going forward at full speed, but hard to maneuver.
Still, sounds like a screw-up of some kind. The helmsman must have done something wrong. Got a bit off course and decided not to back off and try all over again, or something like that.
Time to BAN Ferry’s (of all kinds!).
If the helmsman is a young person, my guess is texting is to blame. If the person was a senior citizen, could be they hit forward throttle rather than reverse.
50 new millionaires.
Dodging swimmers no doubt.