It's sand. Dig a new canal around it.
Posted on 03/28/2021 7:34:26 PM PDT by algore
Hopes have been raised that the cargo ship could be freed today after emergency crews were ordered to start offloading containers. Experts previously budged its stern and get its rudder and propeller working.
The Dutch-flagged Alp Guard and the Italian-flagged Carlo Magno, which were called in to work alongside tugboats already on scene, reached the Red Sea near the city of Suez earlier today.
They will now help nudge the Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel and mud caked to its port side. They have so far shifted 27,000 cubic metres of sand around the ship to reach a depth of 60ft (18m) , the authority said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
this is annoying, but not as much as if the ship breaks which is a huge risk if they try to unload it.
No you cannot lift them off with helicopters. No they will not make a pyramid if they do lift them off with cranes.
Seriously they kept showing a picture with one digger, and now three of them, but the real work is being done on the other side and underneath. Getting the rudder and prop free is huge.
since ballast is gone, if they dont do this right it could easily get much worse.
< insert some joke about de nile (denial) here >
Man Joe couldn’t affect gas prices beter if he “hugged” the preteen daughters of exxon and bp ceo’s....
Two words:
Chain puller.
Sounds to me like he can’t wait to go through those shipping containers.
Commodore Perry had to do in in the war of 1812
Can they blow it up real good?
I wonder how many terrorist are now looking at the canal with a gleam in their eye.
Egypt is losing lots of cash in this.
The toll for a ship to go through the Suez is $700,000.
The egyptians should try unicorn farts and hopium. After all it is what we are using for everything.
before Capt Hazelwood woke up the spin doctors were working on his case.
In this case a few boats with animals that are not even in the canal (or if they are so what) the real crime is that the owners may sacrifice them instead of paying for some extra food and water to be boated in
They might be looking at the log jam of ships in the Red Sea as easy meat.
It's sand. Dig a new canal around it.
The old way:
Raise the water level.
Steel Dams - above and below (canal locations).
Add water in to this temp. dry/wet dock, floating the ship.
Align ship with the more logistics-capable shore. Release water level.
Remove Steel Dams.
Can that ship capsize?
“27,000 cubic metres of sand”
Isn’t there a world wide sand shortage?
[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/05/sand-shortage-the-world-is-running-out-of-a-crucial-commodity.html]
Good article and lots of good pictures at that site.
yes it could capsize because all the ballast water and fuel have been taken out, but it is unlikely unless politics gets involved and stupid decisions are made
What’s the old Carole King song?
And, it’s too late, baby, now 🎶
How long would it take to get THAT massive equipment ON SITE???
How long, then, to dig your new canal?
Hmmmm?
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