I believe the problem is that the protuberence on the bow is inserted into the shore. See Example Below
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 ...
UNLOAD THE DAMN THING.
I bet the oil industry is happy. Their efforts to raise prices collapsed with the recovery.
Your link brings me to the middle of Algeria.
Future sunken cargo to be recovered a thousand years from now?
It could be done by helicopter, but would take months and be extremely expensive................
That’s a shame, it was the right spot, right in the canal, perhaps the full link got truncated.
370 ships stuck, $700k fee per ship, $259,000,000. Wowzo.
The ship had an Egyptian pilot (standard procedure I think), was going perhaps too fast for conditions which is why it was so badly stuck, give or take the amount of energy it would take to stop a 200,000 ton moving cargo ship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP-e4os617c
It wouldn’t have to be completely unloaded, just enough to get the bottom off the ground.............
So, you are stuck in Algeria...... Must be all that sand................
Between the earthmovers working from the shore, and boats using huge pumps to move the canal bed out of the way, plus the Moon’s help (tides), offloading bilge ballast and fuel helped free the ship.
Regarding your earlier remark, unloading the ship by helicopter is, uh, optimistic at best.
Suez Transit Calculator
https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/Navigation/Tolls/Pages/TollsCalculator.aspx
I believe the problem is that the protuberence on the bow is inserted into the shore. See Example Below
Oil Tanker Rates Surge As Suez Canal Blockage Continues
By Tsvetana Paraskova | Mar 26, 2021, 11:00 AM CDT
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Oil-Tanker-Rates-Surge-As-Suez-Canal-Blockage-Continues.html
Thta’s pretty much what I figured.
Nothing portable can load or unload that ship.
After unloading it and moving the ship, reloading would have to be done the same way — assuming there’s a chopper in Egypt that could do it, which I doubt — and such a makeshift method would cost a lot of money. As it is, the Egyptian pilot is probably to blame, and the shipping company would fight this in court.
Yeah, lots of people get into trouble putting their protuberances into places they don’t belong.........................
It’s like that movie of blowing up a dead whale on an Oregon beach. It spread rotting whale blubber far and wide, but left most of the carcass intact. Note done correctly, such things make a worse problem - i.e. the ship will certainly be sunk in place with no buoyancy whatsoeve, while junk and debris is scattered far and wide. Even a large nuke wouldn’t help much.
I thought that trencher was a Manroland
due to high winds... so Biden was driving?
yer right... unpossible as a solution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%27s_Dam
Red River Campaign during the US Civil War. Transports & Gunboats ran aground due to falling water levels. In order to extricate the fleet supporting the failed Union invasion they built a temporary dam across the river to re-float the trapped vessels. Then blew the dam and they sort of “surfed” out.
The engineers attached to some of those field armies could do some amazing things with very little except the materials at hand.
You’re right - looks like the ships are moving again...
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