Suez canal blocked by wedged Megatanker

[Scarlett.]

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Whenever you have a bad day at work, just remember, it wont have been as bad as this Captain's day :laugh:

[arista]

Yes well done the Tug boats
and Land Digger

[Scarlett.]

A flotilla of tugboats, as well as dredgers and diggers resumed efforts to move the Ever Given at high tide on Thursday morning, after stopping overnight.

Later, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement said in a statement that an attempt to refloat the vessel at about 08:00 was not successful, and that another attempt would be made in the afternoon.

The management company added that a team of salvage experts from Smit Salvage had been appointed and were attending to the ship.

The CEO of Smit Salvage's parent company, Boskalis, warned that it could take weeks, rather than days, to refloat the ship.

"It is like an enormous beached whale. It's an enormous weight on the sand," Peter Berdowski told the Dutch TV station NPO.

"We might have to work with a combination of reducing the weight by removing containers, oil and water from the ship, tug boats and dredging of sand."

According to BBC News the canal is still blocked (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56522178)

[Scarlett.]

What shipping traffic currently looks like D:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExVyGTlWEA4AhE-?format=jpg&name=medium

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/25/09/40921834-9400977-image-a-21_1616664693803.jpg


Yes Keep Digging it out

[Scarlett.]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/25/09/40921834-9400977-image-a-21_1616664693803.jpg


Yes Keep Digging it out

The little excavator that could :laugh:

[arista]

Yes it going to effect all Deliveries.

[arista]

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/CBFC/production/_117702225_mediaitem117700829.jpg
8 tug boats pushing and pulling,

[Scarlett.]

It makes you wonder why the whole world never got together and said "Maybe we should consider adding alternate routes instead of just this one canal that could easily be blocked" xD

[hijaxers]

Oh dear Captain , you the in deep poo poo !

[Crimson Dynamo]

this reminds me when i went to Malta and did not go for a week

[Beso]

My tourette's pal just shouted out, Gemma Collins colon.

[user104658]

The little excavator that could :laugh:

If I was there I'd go and pose with a little plastic sandcastle shovel :laugh:

[Alf]

What's in the containers?

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExXGfdOVEAoEx-2?format=jpg&name=900x900

[hijaxers]

The little excavator that could :laugh:

Looks like a 'Tonka toy' compared to that beast.

[arista]

They have now accepted USA help
to get it moved out of the way.

Ref: BBCnews


https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18238/production/_117727889_star-nc.png

[Beso]

They have now accepted USA help
to get it moved out of the way.

Ref: BBCnews


https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18238/production/_117727889_star-nc.png

..I can only do pm....with sl..sorry.

[Jessica.]

What's in the containers?Lust bums

[Smithy]

Lust bums

:skull::skull:

[arista]

If a High Tide
appears they think
they can move with many tug boats

[arista]

What's in the containers?


Chino Trousers
Electrical goods
Knickers
Vibrators
Garden Tubs with mains box
M&S Clothes
Wood Garden Furniture
Card Boxes (all gone up in price)
75" LED TV's 8K
Batteries
Steel for Kitchens
Face masks
Glasses
Bulk Paper for Newspapers

[Alf]

Chino Trousers
Electrical goods
Knickers
Vibrators
Garden Tubs with mains box
M&S Clothes
Wood Garden Furniture
Card Boxes (all gone up in price)
75" LED TV's 8K
Batteries
Steel for Kitchens
Face masks
Glasses
Bulk Paper for NewspapersNo trafficked humans?

I don't believe you.

[arista]

No trafficked humans?

I don't believe you.


There is no room for them.
This a Japan Owned ship.

[Vanessa]

Uri Gellar :joker:

[arista]

Uri Gellar :joker:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Exhe3bhUcAAHlxe?format=jpg&name=900x900

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExamFYmU4AUBtO-?format=jpg&name=small

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/28/13/41040834-0-image-m-10_1616934368856.jpg

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/28/14/41042342-9411167-image-m-70_1616939162709.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/28/14/41042342-9411167-image-m-70_1616939162709.jpg


[Hope for freeing Ever Given? Rescue teams manage to shift the
220,000-ton container ship by nearly 100 FEET as
12 tugs join bid to save it SIX days after it got stuck
in Suez Canal where experts claim
it's 'holding up more than £30billion in trade'
Rescue teams shifted 220,000-ton Ever Given
container ship by nearly 100ft (30m) in major breakthrough
Two heavier tugboats joined efforts to free Panama-flagged
vessel in Suez Canal in Egypt after it got stuck
Japanese-owned vessel got wedged in crucial
trading passage last Tuesday, disrupting global shipping
The Egyptian President today ordered emergency
crews to start offloading containers from the cargo ship]

[Zizu]

Where are Thunderbirds when you need them ..


Seriously though I’m truly surprised it’s taking so long to sort out ..

600 ships waiting to travel through

Supposedly costing £7 BILLION each day its stuck there .

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[arista]

They are planing to remove some Cargo
by bring another ship with a crane.


SkyNewsHD

[Cherie]

I really think they need to get some women involved to organise the removal, so far all the male brains have been found wanting

[bots]

I really think they need to get some women involved to organise the removal, so far all the male brains have been found wanting

how could anyone suspect this was not going to work :fist:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/25/09/40921834-9400977-image-a-21_1616664693803.jpg

[Zizu]

how could anyone suspect this was not going to work :fist:



https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/25/09/40921834-9400977-image-a-21_1616664693803.jpg



Especially as he was pulling it with a giant magnet :)


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[Cherie]

how could anyone suspect this was not going to work :fist:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/25/09/40921834-9400977-image-a-21_1616664693803.jpg

:laugh:

[Ammi]

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/suez-canal-egypt-stuck-cargo-ship-memes-605daa9e44a1a__700.jpg

[arista]

[Ever Given container ship blocking
the Suez Canal is partially refloated and turned
after running aground six days ago,
backing up billions of dollars of global trade]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9413209/Ever-Given-FREED-Suez-Canal-ditch-attempt-using-supermoon-king-tide.html

[user104658]

[Ever Given container ship blocking
the Suez Canal is partially refloated and turned
after running aground six days ago,
backing up billions of dollars of global trade]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9413209/Ever-Given-FREED-Suez-Canal-ditch-attempt-using-supermoon-king-tide.html


Fleet of tugboats used the tidal boost from a king tide brought on by the supermoon to free the ship

:omgno: Aquaman?

[arista]

CNN HD reports in 2 hours
a high tide will ensure that massive tanker
will be moved down to a larger area.

And then it gets the canal back to normal.

[Smithy]

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1376391210391195648?s=21

[arista]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03/28/14/41042342-9411167-image-m-70_1616939162709.jpg

Yesterday
More diggers helped free it.

[Cherie]

They took my advice?

[arista]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Exods_KXEAA9At5?format=jpg&name=small

[Smithy]

https://twitter.com/bbcbreaking/status/1376391210391195648?s=21

Nvm

https://twitter.com/liveuamap/status/1376511973383401472?s=21

:skull:

[bots]

it's a great advert for Egyptian engineering prowess

[user104658]

OK so hear me out...

Instead of trying to refloat the ****er and get it on its way... can they not just... shunt it right in to the side and let other ships pass carefully? So instead of trying to PULL the front end out, just PUSH the arse end into the side :umm2:.

I have made a diagram;

https://i.imgur.com/bfKxEnQ.png

[hijaxers]

Nvm

https://twitter.com/liveuamap/status/1376511973383401472?s=21

:skull:

This is awful, there are loads of live animals on the ships waiting , probably being boiled alive in the heat.

[Cherie]

could they not take some of the containers off onto other ships so as to lighten the load?

[Cherie]

This is awful, there are loads of live animals on the ships waiting , probably being boiled alive in the heat.

horrific

[bots]

they say its been freed again in the latest update

[user104658]

Really the whole shambles just highlights that the canal was built in the mid-1800's and not really designed with these insanely gargantuan freight ships in mind. I know there have been various "widening" projects in the past but maybe time to think about modernisation on a larger scale? Basically the entire world uses it and cuts sea trade journey time down significantly (and thus makes massive savings) using the Suez, so it's something that could (and should) be an international effort.

[arista]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56615521

[Niamh.]

The Blockage was Caused
by a Lady Captain.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56615521You should read the article before jumping onbaord with sexist comments Arista. It wasn't caused by a "lady Captain "

[bots]

At least read the article Arista, she was not even in the country at the time of the incident

[AnnieK]

You should read the article before jumping onbaord with sexist comments Arista. It wasn't caused by a "lady Captain "

Indeed......typical though

[arista]

You should read the article before jumping onbaord with sexist comments Arista. It wasn't caused by a "lady Captain "


Fair Enough
I was busy.

[arista]

At least read the article Arista, she was not even in the country at the time of the incident



Yes I agree

[arista]

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[Alf]

EVERGREEN

That wad or still is, Hillary Clinton's military code name.


That fact doesn't have anything to do with the story (although you never know) I was just giving you some useless information, incase it comes up in a quiz sometime.