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https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/03...6939162709.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]
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Default Suez canal blocked by wedged Megatanker
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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They are planing to remove some Cargo
by bring another ship with a crane.


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

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how could anyone suspect this was not going to work





Especially as he was pulling it with a giant magnet


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[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/art...king-tide.html
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[Ever Given container ship blocking
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backing up billions of dollars of global trade]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...king-tide.html

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Fleet of tugboats used the tidal boost from a king tide brought on by the supermoon to free the ship
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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.
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More diggers helped free it.
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They took my advice?
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it's a great advert for Egyptian engineering prowess
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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 .

I have made a diagram;
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This is awful, there are loads of live animals on the ships waiting , probably being boiled alive in the heat.
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could they not take some of the containers off onto other ships so as to lighten the load?
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they say its been freed again in the latest update
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