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dxmnkd316 said:
Also from the thread. The worldwide experts on heavy lifts at sea:

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I saw on another Twitter thread that the Ever Given has a bulbous nose to it and our plucky little excavator is parked on top of it...

https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/st...41789085306880



Salvaging/scrapping the ship is the last thing they probably want to do for a boat built in 2018, but it has to certainly be on the table of options...
 
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aparch said:
I saw on another Twitter thread that the Ever Given has a bulbous nose to it and our plucky little excavator is parked on top of it...

https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/st...41789085306880



Salvaging/scrapping the ship is the last thing they probably want to do for a boat built in 2018, but it has to certainly be on the table of options...
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There's no way they can scuttle that ship there, though -- that will permanently shut down the canal (indeed it's in five different powers' order of battle for the first fifteen minutes of a regional war to "incapacitate" (military doctrine for "blow the sh-t out of") whoever loses the game of musical chairs when the balloon goes up.

Also: we need a picture book about that backhoe. "The Little Engine That Was Homeschooled And So Never Studied Physics."
 
aparch said:
I saw on another Twitter thread that the Ever Given has a bulbous nose to it and our plucky little excavator is parked on top of it...

https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/st...41789085306880



Salvaging/scrapping the ship is the last thing they probably want to do for a boat built in 2018, but it has to certainly be on the table of options...
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Wait, what? there's literally zero chance of that. Who's saying they're talking about scrapping it? That would take months or years.
 
Here's the problem. Even if they focus on the nose, it doesn't really matter. That's not what's preventing this ship from moving. They can dig that out with the little-excavator-that-could, but they still have the problem that at 15m of draft, you're talking 60 fucking meters of that boat that is currently grounded. Imagine trying to drag an 18- to 20-story building across the ground. They're going to need a hell of a lot of equipment and very careful planning to make sure they don't tip the MFer as they dig.

There's a reason they've already scrambled the world's experts on maritime excavation. This isn't just digging the nose out, it's going to be carving out 200 feet of ship. And 200 ft is if it had hit exactly perpendicular to the shore.

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Kepler said:
There's no way they can scuttle that ship there, though -- that will permanently shut down the canal (indeed it's in five different powers' order of battle for the first fifteen minutes of a regional war to "incapacitate" (military doctrine for "blow the sh-t out of") whoever loses the game of musical chairs when the balloon goes up.

Also: we need a picture book about that backhoe. "The Little Engine That Was Homeschooled And So Never Studied Physics."
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"Don't worry guys...I got this."
 
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?
 
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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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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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.
 
This helped me appreciate the magnitude of the issue. It is, to scale, the portion of the ship that is aground.

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Note the excavator is included.
 
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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