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Video of this is crazy. Cant imagine being on the rigging like that when it hits something solid.
searches YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dEL7vnQ6HEM
Yeah, there are people hanging in the rigging afterwards.
EDIT: Multiple of the shots on the ship's Wikipedia page have people lined up in the rigging when entering/leaving port, so it might be something that they do on that ship as kind of a show for the people in the port, not sure.
I know that US aircraft carriers at least sometimes have people lined up evenly at railings all the way around facing outwards when doing the entering/leaving port, have seen pictures of that. So might be something of a tradition spanning navies.
EDIT2: Yes, it is, and apparently the standing at the railing derives from what the Mexican seamen were doing in the rigging:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manning_the_rail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yard_%28sailing%29#Manning_the_yards
That is a colossal flag on the back of that boat.