Here’s a case where we know what happened but we don’t know yet why it happened.
What happened is that about 9:30 on Friday night the high-speed ferry from Nantucket, carrying 48 passengers, six crew and three food service workers somehow ran into the jetty at the entrance to Hyannis Harbor. Six people were injured, and the Coast Guard, local police and fire and other first responders worked for hours by boat and helicopter to get people off the ferry safely.
Fire Captain Thomas Kenney said in his 36 years of experience he’s seen several small boats crash into the jetty, but “this is the largest boat that’s ever hit it in my career.”
The seas in Nantucket Sound were running about 3 feet and the wind gusting from 15 to 30 mph at the time. The Coast Guard is investigating. For more:
