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To: Lurker; CodeToad

Even minus explosives, getting a grounded megaship unstuck can be impossible. The one in Suez displaces 220,000 TONS, almost double a USN CVN.

When something that massive, even moving slowly, leaves the channel and hits a bank, it wants to keep going, digging way way in.

There is a Korean Ro/Ro car carrier stuck in Brunswick GA for about a year. Fortunately, it’s not blocking the channel. It went aground, and had to be cut into sections to be removed, with a giant “chain saw” around the hull, like that Italian cruise liner.


32 posted on 03/25/2021 6:44:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Not to mention if they sent in 3 or 5 or 10 of these one right after another. A canal can be blocked for basically forever.


43 posted on 03/25/2021 6:57:42 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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