Posted on 03/29/2021 9:05:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes, he does; looks like the Sea-Dweller Deepsea model to me.
99 tons in a 49.5 ton barrel.
A Blivet, FRiend...:)
“This has been a test...”
Is it true that a whopping portion of the Suez traffic nowadays is Chinese?
Some of those tug captains can make good money. Same for harbor pilots/channel pilots/river pilots.
Transport often seems to be critical. Years ago, there was a threat of a railroad strike in the US. It was calculated that economic losses from that strike would be measured in hundreds of *billions* of dollars *every day*. The government had to intervene to prevent a crisis.
Most people don’t easily grasp such infrastructure of scale, but it is there.
50 ships a day travel trough the canal. No telling how long it will take to clear up the backlog.
Here’s some facts;
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A fleet of ships was once stranded in the canal for more than eight years.
https://www.history.com/news/9-fascinating-facts-about-the-suez-canal
Just searching for info on Suez ship capacity gave me this notice first;
COVID-19
Temporary closure or reduced hours may be in effect
I can vaguely remember the Suez Crisis. 1956. I was a kid.
Higher tides freed the ship.
If you look carefully, you can tell it’s a cheap 1978 chinese knockoff -
I’ve heard “evergreen” was the SS name for HRC -
“Only in 1869 did the Ottoman Empire finally complete the 120-mile Suez Canal, reducing the distance between the Arabian Sea and London by approximately 5,500 miles.”
Wasn’t it Frenchman Ferdinand DeLesseps who actually built the canal? Then failed miserably in Panama?
LOL! Since an empty 40 foot shipping container weighs over 4 tons, and full containers can be loaded to more than 33 tons... you would think that someone associated with this article could have done a little math in their heads.
Cargo ships are usually rated by how much tonnage that they can float, rather than how much water they displace empty.
Well, now I know :)
Just looking at that lashup, you have to wonder if judicious use of ANFO, perhaps in a timed sequence designed to rock the “boat” in pitch, might not have freed the vessel within a day or two.Obviously you would bury the ANFO in the sand at a calibrated distance from the bow of the ship to minimize or eliminate damage to the ship . . .
Yep, the French did the work for Suez shipping canal “round one”.
The Soviets did Suez shipping canal “round two”. And with Moscow dominating the external geopolitical Egyptian driver’s seat, and With Russian Navy now formally back at Port Sudan in a big way -
- combined with Merkel going with Moscow’s Nordstreams I & II, the EU has near terminally strategically exposed itself.
With something like that, there should have been two sea going tugs on the bow and one of the stern to guide the ship through the canal.
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