Salvage Efforts Continue in Suez

SUEZ, Egypt, March 27 (Reuters) – Efforts to dislodge a giant container ship blocking the Suez Canal had allowed its stern and rudder to move on Saturday, but it remained unclear when it could be refloated, the head of the canal authority said.

Anybody that thinks this was deliberate is even dumber than the idiots that made this accident. Stop moronic conspiracy nonsense.

Not an argument.

From J.E. Dyer, retired Naval Intelligence officer:

People have asked me if the mishap with the M/V Ever Given, an ultra-large container vessel (UCLV), could have been engineered in some way. I believe the answer is yes.

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Ever Given has a very deep draft: 15.7 meters (about 50 feet), which is more than a Nimitz-class carrier’s draft of 11.3 m, or about 35 feet. Moreover, Ever Given is obviously very heavily laden with her deck cargo. She reportedly entered the canal at over 224,000 tons. She’s not going to be scooted sideways in high winds and a low sea state, unless there is some kind of steering and/or propulsion casualty.

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If this were to be executed as an electronic/information systems attack on global infrastructure – this is what it would look like. It wouldn’t look any different from this. We’d all go through an initial period, probably for days, of assuming it was an accident.

wild assed speculation pretending to be analysis IS moronic, stupid and idiotic because it’s just making crap up to feed conspiracy addicted fools like you.

I said the official story is absurdly contradictory.

That's it. (Now the wind "explanation" is no longer operative.)

You, on the other hand, are doing nothing but name-calling.

Happy Palm Sunday.

It isn’t absurdly contradictory. It’s normal. That’s one of the reasons fools love conspiracies. They wrap things neatly up in a bow. Reality is messy and usually involves multiple factors, fuzzy stories, and mixed narratives. No 2 people see the same thing the same way, and 1 person under stress (like immediately after an accident) won’t see things the same as not (like 3 days later). Also people’s jobs are on the line, so they’re going to nuance their stories for that.

But the basic reality holds, none of these conspiracy theories have the slightest bit of evidence. They are ridiculous speculation put forth by profiteers to get clicks from idiots.

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