Thomas Wynne, a spokesman for Seastreak, said in an interview on Saturday that the warnings had come about 45 to 60 seconds before the boat ran aground, adding that the company was still investigating the event. The crash on Saturday was less severe than another Seastreak crash in 2013. Several dozen passengers on a commuter ferry were injured when the vessel struck two slips at Pier 11, at South Street and Gouverneur Lane. “If he hadn’t turned, he would have come up right on the shore,” Mr. Weinmann said. He said that as the ferry had passed beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, shortly after stopping at the Battery Maritime Building on the southern tip of Manhattan, it began to drift to the Brooklyn side.

Source: New York Times June 05, 2021 22:13 UTC