Brooklyn Bridge hit by Mexican navy training ship, injuring several

[Shipwack]

7. Several careers...

of the senior members piloting party. Something like this requires several errors by different people.

Very, very odd. The only explanations I can think of are:

1) Bad charts that didn’t have the bridge height correct.
2) Their position was off but they didn’t realize it. Perhaps a cross-current?
3) Incompetent Captain giving bad orders (I had one of those and he almost killed us a few times)
4) They had incorrect information about the tides I.e. They thought they were approaching during a low tide but it was really a high tide