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Massive container ship stuck sideways in the Suez Canal blocking all traffic


World | 207468 hits | Mar 24 5:59 am | Posted by: DrCaleb
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The vessel's operator reportedly encountered a 'loss of the ability to steer the ship,' amid poor visibility caused by a dust storm and a freak wind reaching…

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  1. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Mar 25, 2021 2:34 pm
    I like this picture of it. Gives some scale to the problem.


  2. by avatar bootlegga
    Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:24 pm
    You'd think that the Suez Port Authority would own a tug or two big enough to move the large ships using the canal, but I guess this doesn't happen often enough to justify the cost of such a tug.

  3. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Mar 25, 2021 3:56 pm
    I'm sure they can push a container ship around easily. The problem is in that picture. The large hydrodynamic nose on the ship is securely embedded in the sand bank.


  4. by avatar raydan
    Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:09 pm
    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    You've got a nose
    Like a B-52

  5. by avatar llama66
    Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:35 pm
    The Bulbous Bow. What gets me is if they were broadside to a sandstorm, why didn't they drop her anchors? Ships like that usually have the Port/Starboard anchor, and sometimes a Stern anchor, so she doesn't spin (as much) while she's moored.

  6. by avatar raydan
    Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:44 pm

  7. by avatar DrCaleb
    Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:47 pm
    ^^^ Like the guy with the jacked up truck in the ditch after the first snow storm.

  8. by avatar DrCaleb
    Fri Mar 26, 2021 2:04 pm
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1374835984852996101

  9. by avatar raydan
    Sat Mar 27, 2021 9:30 pm

  10. by avatar PluggyRug
    Sat Mar 27, 2021 9:38 pm
    :D

    Been there done that.

  11. by avatar fifeboy
    Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:17 am
    Hire Nick and Relic. They will get it done!

  12. by avatar Strutz
    Sun Mar 28, 2021 4:17 am
    "fifeboy" said
    Hire Nick and Relic. They will get it done!

    :lol:

  13. by avatar CDN_PATRIOT
    Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:14 pm
    How do we know it wasn't planned? Nobody could be THAT stupid.

    -J.

  14. by avatar DrCaleb
    Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:56 pm
    "CDN_PATRIOT" said
    How do we know it wasn't planned? Nobody could be THAT stupid.

    -J.


    :lol:

    Yea, because the ultimate goal of tying up so much commercial traffic to Europe is . . . .



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