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  • #2071
    Originally posted by rufus View Post
    Are there like, heavy duty industrial strength airbags that they could position around the hull and inflate, sort of just lift it off the sandbar? or at least, lighten its footprint enough that the tugs can pull it away?
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    Originally posted by SanTropez
    May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
    Originally posted by bigblue_dl
    I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
    Originally posted by Kepler
    When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
    He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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    • #2072
      Originally posted by French Rage View Post

      Isn't there a project underway to widen the Panama Canal or is that already finished?
      They opened a new set of locks in 2016 (the original design was two lanes of locks, they added a 3rd lane of locks that were wider and deeper)

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      • #2073
        Unlike the Panama Canal, the Suez doesn't have any locks, if I recall, correct.

        So no way to flood that portion of the canal to raise the boat?
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        • #2074
          Originally posted by aparch View Post
          Unlike the Panama Canal, the Suez doesn't have any locks, if I recall, correct.

          So no way to flood that portion of the canal to raise the boat?
          Right, I think it's sea level at the way through. It was very easy for them to originally dig Suez, and Panama was a nightmare in comparison.

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          • #2075
            Originally posted by French Rage View Post
            Time to bring back the Silk Road. Uzbekistan's moment in the sun!
            PRC's working on it.
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            • #2076
              Almost wonder if they'll have to build a ramp from to offload some of that crap to try to lighten it
              "I went over the facts in my head, and admired how much uglier the situation had just become. Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy".- Harry Dresden, Blood Rites


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              • #2077
                It feels like this is an excuse to take the sea shanty craze too far.

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                KDR

                Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
                iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
                gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
                Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
                Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
                TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

                Test to see if I can add this.

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                • #2078
                  This helped me appreciate the magnitude of the issue. It is, to scale, the portion of the ship that is aground.



                  Note the excavator is included.
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                  • #2079
                    That excavator is going to go for $5M on eBay someday....
                    If you don't change the world today, how can it be any better tomorrow?

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                    • #2080
                      Just musing on the math related to 20,000 containers. To unload the ship without the automated, high-speed overhead gantry cranes and no rail cars to load them onto - figure you could maybe get one container off every 15 minutes? That's nearly 7 months to unload.... Yikes.
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                      • #2081
                        Originally posted by LynahFan View Post
                        Just musing on the math related to 20,000 containers. To unload the ship without the automated, high-speed overhead gantry cranes and no rail cars to load them onto - figure you could maybe get one container off every 15 minutes? That's nearly 7 months to unload.... Yikes.
                        they don't have to unload everything, but it seems like moving it will involve some combination of reducing the weight by off loading some combination of fuel/ballast water/containers, digging/dredging around the bow and stern, plus doing the move at high tide.

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                        • #2082
                          Management's thoughts on the Suez incident.

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                          • #2083
                            Originally posted by LynahFan View Post
                            Just musing on the math related to 20,000 containers. To unload the ship without the automated, high-speed overhead gantry cranes and no rail cars to load them onto - figure you could maybe get one container off every 15 minutes? That's nearly 7 months to unload.... Yikes.
                            I think 15 is high. I'm guessing with a couple of choppers you could get that down to 10 minutes, maybe less. Especially if you don't give a **** about the containers or their contents. Plus like bass said, you only need some off. We're still talking 2-6 weeks after equipment arrives.
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                            Originally posted by SanTropez
                            May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                            Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                            I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                            Originally posted by Kepler
                            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                            He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                            • #2084
                              Just saw a tweet from cnn saying they need to excavate 20,000 cubic meters of sand. Quick math says 90x90x90.

                              Dats a big hole.
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                              Originally posted by SanTropez
                              May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                              Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                              I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                              Originally posted by Kepler
                              When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                              He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                              • #2085
                                It takes 14 days to go around Africa. How long before ships just start doing that?
                                **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

                                Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                                Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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