What does stairs have to do with it (I don’t get it(?))?
I don’t believe any supposed “official” explanation by them, no matter how possible in other scenarios etc.
Biden
Stairs
Wind
I am a retired ship captain. It was the wind.
After the Exxon Valdez hit the rocks in Prince William Sound a lot of things changed.
Powerful escort tugs were purpose made and multiples of them escorted the tankers in the Sound.
I suspect something like that will happen at the Suez Canal.
They might even try to put a smaller size limit in place.