Posted on 04/17/2022 4:34:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
After weeks of heavy salvage work in the Chesapeake Bay, the massive continership Ever Forward is free and underway.
The 334-meter-long Ever Forward has been stuck in the mud since March 13th after straying from the Craighill shipping channel as it departed the Port of Baltimore for Norfolk, Virginia, with a pilot on board.
Just before 7 am on Easter Sunday, two anchor barges and five large tugboats pulled the ship astern and sideways until she was dislodged. The salvage crews recieved help from a full moon and a spring tide to release the ship that had been stuck for more than a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
EVERSTUCK?
Itisyourimagination.
In the early 1990s, I chartered a tug for some work on a bayou outside Port Arthur, TX. Charter cost for the tug (sized for ICW barge pushing duty) + 3 flat deck barges was about $10K a day wet. Wet means that this was the tug, crew and fuel based 24 hour/day operation. The only extra charge was an insurance surcharge because the bayou was a secondary channel and not a primary like the ICW.
Rain or shine, I was paying for the tug 24/7. Construction related crews got a rain day off so the tug was down as well. Zero work on Sunday.
Don’t get me going on this nonsense.
The worst is “UNDERWAY”.
I noticed this monstrosity starting 25 years ago when I worked with subs. Many - but not all - references to a ship would use a compound word.
Since then it’s sprouted everywhere including on FOX news and other media reporting.
Makes zero sense. “The ship is under way.” To compound it implies the compound is a noun, or adjective or verb. There is no delineation. It should be 2 words.
Guessing the banana’s I’ve been waiting for are a bit past the yellow stage.
Nice, but I bet a ton of Freepers have no idea who Captain Hazelwood is (born after "the spill")
Drunk and stupid is no way to captain an oil tanker...
Reference: Exxon Valdez spill was a racist attack on seabirds forcing them to wear black face makeup.
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We were all freed from the shoals on Easter Morning. Hallelujah!
So, when you worked on subs was it “sub marine?” Were they “nuke cue lears?”
Mocking?
Seriously, “sub” is a prefix, not a word, so of course it is part of a word and “submarine” is not a compound word.
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