Good vid. However, I do not really see any reason why a couple vacuum dredges cannot have their pickup pipes extended to do the job. Smaller “water jets” could also be used to displace sand to where it would be easier to remove. Obviously, some creativity and jury rigging might be involved.
Granted, this does assume the sand goes deep enough to make removal effective. If there is bedrock a few meters down, having the ship come to rest on that might not be so great...
I always enjoy these types of threads where the community chimes in to come up with a solution.
I’m reminded of a super thread that attempted to solve one of the space shuttle disasters. It was the one where a chunk of ice had broken off the airship on takeoff and punched a hole in the “webbing” where the wing meets the fuselage.
We kept pace with the publically released data, and beat NASA at their own game by guessing/hypothesizing as to what the cause was that brought down the shuttle before NASA ever made an official determination.
I might add that there was a freeper in west Texas that reported seeing the shuttle break up over west Texas about 10 minutes before the disaster broke on national news, and came to Free Republic and reported on what he/she had seen.
A recent aerial view showed a pretty substantial dredge working at the bow.