Traffic jam in the suez canal

[burnt]

A bit of movement in the right direction, not solved but progress. Gotta move more sand and clay. It must be a bit of a challenge to know how to remove dirt without upsetting the balance of that top-heavy beast.

Risk of damaging the boat if they pull too hard - don't want to put a wrinkle in the side...

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-suezcanal-ship-idUSKBN2BJ0C1 https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-suezcanal-ship-idUSKBN2BJ0C1

[Sodbuster]

They need a bunch of big a$$ air bags inflated to float ship.

[shtferbrains]

https://www.dredgingtoday.com/vessels/el-seddiek/

They have a whole fleet of dredges there including this one with 19000 hp and a 1000mm suction inlet. Will dredge 30m deep. That would move thousands of yards per hr.
Who knows how things work in shithole parts of the world?
Must need huge kickback to get anything to happen.

[sumdumguy]

Sounds like the ship was just to big and too loaded for that shallow canal. That may be why it ended up sideways to begin with. Even when they dredge it out in that spot, it may just run aground further up the canal. The aerial views shows how narrow it is at that particular spot. Just sayin, not with any conviction.

[jazz]

Gotta get that china junk over here fast before consumers start losing it.

I mean god forbid we actually made something within range of the people who actually need it and kept inventory in a depot somewhere. Nope, instead lets have a just in time system from the otherside of the planet and try to shove 100 cargo and oil freighters a day through a tiny channel and hope nothing goes wrong.

[burnt]

This chap gives the best analysis going.

I discovered him when he gave regular reports on the dam spillway failure and reconstruction in California a few years ago.

[sumdumguy]

TY Burnt

[TOM4CWB]

This chap gives the best analysis going.

I discovered him when he gave regular reports on the dam spillway failure and reconstruction in California a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLFmojnXtk0

Apparently they dredged 30,000t of sand and were able to move the EverGiven 30 degrees but could not finish the removal Saturday. There is now water flowing under the ship... they were estimating Sunday evening likely removal time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56547383

https://twitter.com/MarioLeb79/status/1375897509302824962 tug boats honking horns after Ever Given moves a bit...

Cheers

[burnt]

30 meters closer to floating again.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1375883891412729857 https://twitter.com/i/status/1375883891412729857



"When the water comes up PUSH!! Or PULL!" Which ever side of the beast you're on...

Gotta wonder how/if those changes in water level cause any flex in the center of that ship. Pretty significant variability in flotation, it would suggest to an uninformed me.

[jazz]

Does the ship take off right away if they get it floated. i would think it would need an inspection somewhere along the line.

Maybe they can take it out of the channel first because it doesnt look like another ship can pass by it even if they straighten it out.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thinking back on the all of the topics that members of Agriville have turned out to be experts in, it never ceases to amaze me.

We have many experts on climate, not terribly surprising considering that as farmers ( some of us anyways), weather and climate are mightily important, so we keep ourselves informed.

We seem to have even more experts on energy, again, considering that many members work in an ( not necessarily THE) energy industry, or even have their own generation, this is to be expected.

But then, a pandemic broke out, and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that within our ranks there exists countless medical experts, infectious disease and even vaccine experts, I never would have guessed that we would be so well rounded in our areas of expertise.

And now, as it turns out, in addition to all of the above, most of us are also specialists in issues regarding maritime shipping and canals. In fact, it appears that a few of us could have freed this ship already, if only we were given the opportunity. Imagine that, a bunch of farmers from land locked provinces having such intimate and in depth knowledge of ocean going vessels.

I am truly in awe of the knowledge bank that is Agriville.

[bucket]

Your welcome.