Traffic jam in the suez canal

[samhill]

Seems to me a push one side and pull from other side, sorry, starboard and port, at rear, sorry, stern, would be more effective.

[agstar77]

There is a real concern pulling and pushing too hard could cause structural damage. Worst case, it cracks in half. Best if it is more buoyant.

[redleaf]

Would think there has to be some rigs like the Christine Rose in that part of the world that would be on the scene. As pointed out earlier there is a lot of that boat resting on the shallow side of the canal and short of unloading it the only way to float it is to dig a hole under it.

[jazz]

Would think there has to be some rigs like the Christine Rose in that part of the world that would be on the scene. As pointed out earlier there is a lot of that boat resting on the shallow side of the canal and short of unloading it the only way to float it is to dig a hole under it.

The news reports are saying its actually lodged on both sides so just cant be tugged out straight or unloaded quickly or even dug under without a lot of caution because if the distribution of weight gets off, she could crack mid hull and then you would have a environmental disaster in that straight.

[burnt]

A bit of movement in the right direction, not solved but progress. Gotta move more sand and clay. It must be a bit of a challenge to know how to remove dirt without upsetting the balance of that top-heavy beast.

Risk of damaging the boat if they pull too hard - don't want to put a wrinkle in the side...

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-suezcanal-ship-idUSKBN2BJ0C1 https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-egypt-suezcanal-ship-idUSKBN2BJ0C1

[Sodbuster]

They need a bunch of big a$$ air bags inflated to float ship.

[shtferbrains]

https://www.dredgingtoday.com/vessels/el-seddiek/

They have a whole fleet of dredges there including this one with 19000 hp and a 1000mm suction inlet. Will dredge 30m deep. That would move thousands of yards per hr.
Who knows how things work in shithole parts of the world?
Must need huge kickback to get anything to happen.

[sumdumguy]

Sounds like the ship was just to big and too loaded for that shallow canal. That may be why it ended up sideways to begin with. Even when they dredge it out in that spot, it may just run aground further up the canal. The aerial views shows how narrow it is at that particular spot. Just sayin, not with any conviction.

[jazz]

Gotta get that china junk over here fast before consumers start losing it.

I mean god forbid we actually made something within range of the people who actually need it and kept inventory in a depot somewhere. Nope, instead lets have a just in time system from the otherside of the planet and try to shove 100 cargo and oil freighters a day through a tiny channel and hope nothing goes wrong.

[burnt]

This chap gives the best analysis going.

I discovered him when he gave regular reports on the dam spillway failure and reconstruction in California a few years ago.