The Intrepid was the site of a second incident Friday afternoon when a passenger was hooked in the e

MANHATTAN — Hours before the USS Intrepid got a front-row view of the historic flyover by its future tenant, the Enterprise space shuttle, it had to fend off an unexpected gatecrasher: a massive cruise ship that hit the side of the pier where the aircraft carrier is docked.
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"This morning at approximately 8:30 a.m., a Norwegian Cruise ship grazed Pier 86, the home of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, as it was turning to pull into Pier 88," an Intrepid staffer confirmed in an e-mail to DNAinfo.com. "The Museum is inspecting the pier for damage but it appears minimal at this time."
The crash happened shortly before southwest airlines and cheap tickets the Enterprise — which took off from Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., attached to a 747 Boeing Shuttle Carrier aircraft southwest airlines and cheap tickets — flew around the city at about 1,500 feet.
The 965-foot-long cruise ship — which was on its first trip to New York this season — was struggling to dock Friday morning because of heavy winds and choppy waters, southwest airlines and cheap tickets Norwegian Cruise Line officials said in an email.
"He tried four times, up and back, up and back, four times," said Drago Ivanko, an elevator porter on Pier 88, referring southwest airlines and cheap tickets to the ship operator. "It was windy, low tide. When there's low tide, the river started going a little faster."
The Intrepid was the site of a second incident Friday afternoon when a passenger was hooked in the eyebrow on deck, officials said. The unidentified passenger was being treated on board, and her injuries were not described as life-threatening.
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In SOME cruise lines you actually have to prove you know what bow and stern thrusters are before they hand you control of a nearly thousand-foot ship. I've lived most of my life near the Hudson River, and I've NEVER seen it so "choppy" that a competent helmsman couldn't control his ship. NEVER. In the middle of a freakin' HURRICANE the "chop" in the Hudson never reaches more than six INCHES.