The volunteer was wearing a safety harness when she fell about 60 feet.
The Elissa’s tallest mast is 99 feet high.
“She was wearing her fall protection harness, and on those harnesses, you’re supposed to have two points of contact as you’re moving from one place to the other,” Brown told the newspaper. “You always keep one connected. You disconnect one and then you connect it elsewhere before you unhook the other one so you can move.
“We’re not sure exactly what happened that she wasn’t double-clipped in,” Brown said. “When she went to move from one location to another, she apparently slipped and fell.” The Elissa is one of three ships of her kind in the world to still actively sail. More than 40,000 people visit the ship and museum each year,
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