It's sand. Dig a new canal around it.
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.
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.
What’s the old Carole King song?
And, it’s too late, baby, now 🎶
No contingency plans?
It's the age-old Tombstone Technology where nothing changes until enough people die. It's amateur and completely reactionary.
Since I know very little on this subject a curiosity... what would happen if several other super ships came down the canal? Would it be possible to displace enough water by their large displacement as to effectively lift the troubled ship?
Just curious.
Cut their losses. Destroy the ship and clear the debris enough from the channel for the backlog of ships to start moving through the canal again.
It is a small price to pay to offset the huge expenses and losses that are mounting up by letting the ship block the passage.
Fly a bunch of BLMers there and tell them they can keep whatever they can carry off the ship. The ship will be empty in a week.