***I wouldn’t be so fast to poo-poo the wind explanation.
That ship has a LOT of sail area. It was doing eight maybe nine knots. (I just looked up the speed restrictions for the Suez canal. It is 8.6 knots for non-tankers. Not bad for eyeballing it.).
At 8.5kn you are traveling 286 yards per minute. That is greater than the width of the canal and 2/3 the length of the ship. Things can go bad VERY fast. At that point inertia is not your friend.
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We transit the canal too.
A video of the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) transiting in 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8puC1NYMx8k
(BTW, thanks for your service LP)
The Suez Canal has no locks.
Like the channels of Tierra del Fuego, the canal is subject to extreme tidal currents between the bodies of water on each end. Thus the ships making the transit are subject to extreme set and drift, especially when the tidal flow changes direction