Biggest container ship I've ever seen

[dryheat]

https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/new-satellite-images-show-close-up-of-ever-given-wedged-in-place/922556

[Johnny P]

Just because the technology exists to build something that big doesn't necessarily mean that it is practical. The propulsion engines used for steering couldn't overcome mother nature.

[Sako]

I bet the chi coms use these huge ships as trojan horses when they invade us.

[Mark in Ottawa]

I was attending an on-line lecture on Friday when the stuck vessel came up in discussion. One of the attendees was knowledgeable about the canal and explained that the canal is dredged with a deep flat portion in the center where the ships travel and sides that slope up at about 45 degrees from the flat bottom to the surface. It seems that the bulbous bow rammed into the sloped side and dug itself in pretty deep. At the same time, the rudder and prop dug into the sloped side on the other side of the canal. This meant that both the bow and the stern were dug in and no movement was possible. One report that I saw mentioned that if the tugboats aren't careful, they can break the hull which really isn't designed to be pushed or pulled the way that it has to be to free the ship. Another commented that they may have to start to remove containers to lighten the ship enough that it can float off. There are about 20,000 containers on board and no real way for a crane to get at most of them so it could take weeks to actually do this.

[dryheat]

Somehow this is going to be another thing that raises prices.

[lyman]

i bet the chi coms use these huge ships as trojan horses when they invade us.

wolverines!!

[m1ashooter]

I follow a young merchant marine officer on Youtube and he was on a large container ship. He was actually filming going though the canal when another ship lost its steering and got stuck too, but not like this one. Its amazing to really see up close the amount of containers they can carry. I discovered another guy that was doing a technical explanation of the problem to include a lot of math and some of the many problems is there aren't enough tow ships in the world with the power to just yank her free and the fact that shes grounded you now have a suction effect from the mud. This is a mess.

[dryheat]

I follow a young merchant marine officer on Youtube and he was on a large container ship. He was actually filming going though the canal when another ship lost its steering and got stuck too, but not like this one. Its amazing to really see up close the amount of containers they can carry. I discovered another guy that was doing a technical explanation of the problem to include a lot of math and some of the many problems is there aren't enough tow ships in the world with the power to just yank her free and the fact that shes grounded you now have a suction effect from the mud. This is a mess.

I just watched that vid. And helos can't yank all those containers off either- with assistance from his son, young Pete.
Bigger is better. But not when there are space constraints. Sometimes it's a problem. I can live with it.

[Major Tom]

Years ago I was having lunch along the coast in So. CA and watched cargo ships pass by. They were about 200 yards away and they were huge and containers stacked high. I wondered why they didn't tip over or a strong wind blow them over.

[dryheat]

Years ago I was having lunch along the coast in So. CA and watched cargo ships pass by. They were about 200 yards away and they were huge and containers stacked high. I wondered why they didn't tip over or a strong wind blow them over.

Ballast. They could remove water and oil ect. to bouy the ship higher but that makes it top heavy. It has a lot of top.

[Mark in Ottawa]

According to the news this morning, they have removed a lot of the sand around the ship using a suction dredge and at high tide (who knew that a canal has tides?) they got it partially floated. I assume that they will keep sucking up the sand as quickly as possible and wait for the next tide.

There are now over 300 ships waiting to pass through the canal.

[Sunray]

"...when they invade us..." They hold 1/3 of the U.S. National Debt now. No need invade.
That barge(1,312 ft 2 in long. 200,000 tons. Bigger than USS Nimitz.) has been involved in several incidents before. Operated by a Taiwanese company and registered in Panama, but nobody mentions who owns it.

[blackhawknj]

The Suez Canal is only 205 meters wide. It has no locks

[Major Tom]

What next? Plug up the Panama Canal? I think it was sabotage; definitely not wind!
The Suez has been operating for decades with not major problems.

[lyman]

What next? Plug up the Panama Canal? I think it was sabotage; definitely not wind!
The Suez has been operating for decades with not major problems.

who would benefit from the sabotage?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/03/29/suez-canal-pilots/