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Might Take Weeks" - Suez Canal Still Closed As "Enormous Beached Whale" Ship Remains Stuck
serf
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Another man made disaster is coming?If the shipping must go around Africa look for higher prices!
serf
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) reported Thursday it had suspended traffic along the 120-mile long canal while eight tugboats worked to free a massive containership, according to Reuters.
SCA's statement said thirteen vessels had sailed south along the canal on Wednesday and were waiting in the canal's lakes until the containership was refloated. On either side of the canal's entrances, dozens of ships are piling up as the world's most crucial shipping lane grinds to a halt.
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Not sure I would call it a man made disaster, Mother Nature had a bit to do with it. With all that money on the line there will be a gargantuan effort to clear the canal as soon as possible. Looks like they have called in some professionals to get it done.
Elite Salvagers Set to Tackle Massive Ship Blocking Suez Canal (yahoo.com)
Hopefully any effect it is having on oil prices will be short lived. Bob
Was Joeseph Hazelwood piloting?
“He was accused of being intoxicated which contributed to the disaster, ...”
Nope! It was this guy! 😁
Get these guys from Florence, Oregon to take care of the problem.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=whale+blown+up+on+oregon+beach&t=chromentp&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D_KTQtIBsum4
It was weather ---- strong winds. Ship is the maximum length to passage the Suez Canal. No room for error. Job of a pilot pays very well, but is very stressful.
Neal
That didn't work out so well.
Does the Post Office have ships?😊
Maybe it was a Swift driver.
just needs a bit o tannerite
Moew
More Like a crazy Ivan but the pilot has got to be worried about his job soon.
serf
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Another ray of sunshine........
No locks on the Suez. They could certainly wreak havoc on the Panama Canal though. If they took out the highest ones the flood would take care of the rest.
Nothing that a couple of barrels of K Y lube couldnt cure.
Suez is a sea level canal, which means that unlike Panama, there are no locks. Here is a look at Mia Flores at the Panama Canal:
For my forum fan club who insist that I've never actually been to these places, here is yours truly inside the lock:
Sure...that's an easy photo to fake!
Mark- to believe you have been to the Panama Canal, I would first have to believe the Panama Canal is real.
Sorry sir, not buying it! The Earth is flat therefore “locks” are simply unnecessary.
😀
Who was that masked man?
The Owners say it could be out today.
Mark I was stationed in Panama for 5 years, what a blast. My wife wants to go back and live there or Costa Rica.
There was a huge sand storm that reduced visibility to zero, the huge winds pushed the ship twisting it in the canal. After the bow ran aground the crew was just along for the ride into the biggest plug on navigable waters ever seen.
Some years ago we were looking at birds along the Red Sea Coast and up to Suez. After lunch we took a road going north that had a high berm on the east side. We are busy looking for birds, when suddenly a giant container ship appears to our right sailing right through the desert. Yep, the road paralleled the canal.
Now we have the answer! 😁
Iowa Class Battleships Are The Widest Ships To Ever Use the Panama canal.
Battleship New Jersey in the canal
Today - The lock chambers are 1,000 feet (300 metres) long, 110 feet (33 metres) wide, and 40 feet (12 metres) deep.
@ The Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal.
They save a chunk of change in fuel for transit costs and delivery time is faster with less overhead costs. I read the US Navy is ready to help now,
serf
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/26/us-navy-help-ship-stuck-suez-canal-478182
We have offered and stand ready to assist Egypt, and will look to support any specific request we receive. We continue to monitor and assess the situation, but have nothing to provide on any potential specific support at this time."CNN first reported the Navy's involvement in the Suez situation.
The White House on Friday also confirmed it has offered Egypt help to remove the ship and get traffic flowing again.
Mark, did you see "Herman the German" when you visited the Panama canal? It's a huge floating crane with quite a history.
I did. I took me a little time to find the photo. You can see the crane on the extreme right. Not the best photo- but it's mine and not lifted off the web!
Here is an enlargement of the same photo to give a better view of the crane:
Sure looks like it. One time when we were stateside, It was one pier over and we got to watch it lift the stern of a tincan
out of the water for a prop change. Quite the machine.
Herman was based out of Long Beach, CA for decades. We could see it when we'd drive home form my grandmother's house. The only reason I took that photo is because the paint scheme was no long battleship grey, which caught me by surprise. There is another huge floating crane operating in Panama called Hercules, but I'm not sure I have a photo.
why don't they chain helicopters to the deck, fire them up and fly it out of there. UFO's do it in the Bermuda triangle all the time.
Or, they could just fill all of those containers with helium 🤣
If they don't get it now with the full moon tides, that ship is liable to break its spine - and then we're talking months to get it out of there a piece at a time.
an article from Ahram online an Egyptian news outlet
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/407823/Egypt/Politics-/LIVE-UPDATES-Preparations-to-offload-ship-blocking.aspx
New York Post
Human error may be behind ship blocking Suez Canal: authorities
By Eileen AJ Connelly
March 28, 2021 | 3:34pm | Updated
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Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie says the Ever Given container ship could have committed "technical or human errors," that caused it to wedge between the banks of the canal.
EPA/SUEZ CANAL AUTHORITY/Handout
The massive container ship that is blocking the Suez Canal may have run aground because of human error, not a strong windstorm, Egyptian officials said this weekend.
Initial reports said the 1,300-foot, 200,000-ton Ever Given got wedged in the shipping channel because of high winds and a sandstorm that affected visibility.
But the head of the Suez Canal Authority now says weather conditions were “not the main reasons” for the ship’s grounding.
“There may have been technical or human errors,” the canal authority’s Chairman Osama Rabie told reporters Saturday, without giving more details, the BBC reported.
“All of these factors will become apparent in the investigation.”
Meanwhile, tug boats and dredgers continued working to push and pull the massive ship from the spot where it’s been wedged between the banks of the normally-busy canal since Tuesday.At least 369 boats are lined up in a massive traffic jam waiting to pass through the canal, which handles up to 15 percent of world trade.
There are at least 369 boats waiting in a traffic jam behind the stuck Ever Given container ship on the Suez Canal.A mass of rock underneath the ship’s bow is making the effort difficult. Dredgers have shifted more than 950,000 cubic feet of sand and dug down nearly 60 feet, but the ship remains stuck.
Still, there are tiny signs of progress, the Suez Canal Authority said.
“The rudder was not moving and it is now moving, the propeller is working now, there was no water underneath the bow, and now there is water under it, and yesterday there was a 4-meter deviation in the bow and the stern,” Rabie told Egyptian state TV.
Video posted on Twitter showed tug boats honking their horns in celebration.
Authorities brought two more powerful tugboats in, bringing the total to 14 tugs working on moving the ship. The backup is costing the canal about $15 million daily.The Egyptian government also ordered preparations to start offloading some of the ship’s 18,300 containers to lighten its load. That effort wouldn’t start until Monday.
It will require moving the containers either to another ship or possibly the canal bank. Special equipment, including a crane more than 200 feet high, would be needed and the process could take weeks, the BBC reported.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon said Sunday th
Over 18000 containers is mindboggling!
And all full of chinese crap for walmart
I assume the captain has sent a resume to Indeed.
Speaking of canals, the weirdest thing I'd seen in a while was when I was visiting a pal that lives just outside of Athens a few months a year. We traveled about an hour west of Athens and visited the Isthmia Bridge Cafe located along the Corinth Canal. The canal separates the Aegean Sea and the Ionian Sea (though technically there are gulfs involved). The bridge next to the cafe was open to foot and auto traffic but would submerge when a ship needed to pass.
My news feed (makes me sound important) says the ship has been freed in the canal.
Super moon lifted tides to unlodge the Super Container ship! Hurray! Toliet paper is coming soon!
serf
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14484562/suez-canal-ship-refloated-freed/
Containers fill the hold from near the keel to the top of the hull, Ken.
Then they are stacked on the hatch covers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=container+ship+loading&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS548US721&oq=con&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j46i199i291i433l2j0i433j69i60l3.2287j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_Aj5iYPuNPPnF0PEPqriSsA420
Brad Steele
It's a floating and traffic is flowing.
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/408069/Egypt/Politics-/UPDATE---ships-to-pass-through-Suez-Canal-by-Tuesd.aspx