High School Prom Gets Rudely Interrupted When Their Yacht Bumps Into Another

Proms are awesome, right? It marks the end of high school and it is a huge deal with students. Some high schools throw them in the gym, but one high school from Hoboken, New Jersey decided they should do it the classy way - of a yacht.

Now, we all know what happens at proms, right? No need to mention it. Proms can be risky even on the ground but on a yacht? And at open sea? Whoever had that bright idea? Still, the event that made the dance come to a very abrupt halt was not created by the students. Rather, from the captain of the vessel.

Ninety-five students of the Weehawken High School, along with 11 faculty members, set out to celebrate the end of high school on the Cornucopia Destiny, a 115-foot yacht, out on Hoboken’s pier 14 on May 24, when the unthinkable happened. Their yacht hit a smaller one, a 95-foot vessel called Sundancer, which is also operated by the Cornucopia Cruise line, a Perth Amboy-based company.

Bystanders managed to grab footage as the yacht slid into the smaller boat’s stern, bumping into it and kept pushing it forward towards the pier, where the Sundancer crashed into a light pole, eventually pushing it to the ground. No one was injured on board both vessels.

Law enforcement used ropes to pull the larger vessel off and the secure it to the pier. The U.S. Coast Guard is working on solving what really happened. The spokeswoman for the Coast Guard, Anne Marie Gordon, said marine inspectors and investigators went to the scene that same night and are continuing to investigate.

The students were all evacuated and taken back to the high school. Their prom was rescheduled for June 10 aboard the Spirit of New Jersey. Weehawken Superintendent of Schools Robert Zywicki said that they were “thinking we were going to have to do it at a hotel or a local restaurant but the Spirit of New Jersey reached out this morning and said how can we help.” All is well that ends well.

Too bad about the yachts though.

You would think that those things should be relatively easy to maneuver, if you know what you are doing. But it just so happens that sometimes even a big boat can float out of control. A cruise ship crashed into a dock at Coxen Hole on Honduras’s Roatan Island on Tuesday, April 10. In the video shared on social media the MSC Armonia can be seen ploughing into and demolish a metal jetty at the Caribbean holiday resort.

To witnesses on shore, at first glance it looked like just another cruise ship docking at the Port Coxen Hole on the island of Roatan in Honduras. It soon became perfectly clear that cruise ship was coming in way too fast and that either one or both forward anchors were deployed in an evidently desperate attempt to check the 65,000-ton vessel's momentum. Just a few short moments later the MSC Armonia crashed, tearing a section out of the dock and briefly running aground on the beach behind.