I keep reading it as Eva green, and now I imagine the ship is like stuck there with dangerous, sexy, manic French vampire seductress energy, daring anyone to come close, luring diggers to a sexy death
Imagine being the captain of the first ship to pass through the Suez after it gets unblocked and knowing that you have the potential to do the funniest thing that anyone has ever done ever.
is there an account yet of how this actually wound up happening? Are the crew just like, sequestered on the ship or something?
From my understanding the boat is just straight up too big for the canal. It's size combined with some physics stuff caused the water to push the boat in such a way that it got wedged sideways.
is there an account yet of how this actually wound up happening? Are the crew just like, sequestered on the ship or something?
From my understanding the boat is just straight up too big for the canal. It's size combined with some physics stuff caused the water to push the boat in such a way that it got wedged sideways.
yeah but like, how does a boat that's too big for the canal wind up in the canal? I assume these routes are planned like, well in advance and the captain's not just like 'yanno, we could shave off a couple days if we cut through the suez and I gotta get home before my dvr fills up'
it was the smallest on the list but
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I'm going to assume people have been paying off authorities to drive too big ships through the canal for a while and this is the first time it bit them in the ass.
I'm going to assume people have been paying off authorities to drive too big ships through the canal for a while and this is the first time it bit them in the ass.
My bar for humanity after the last 4 years is so low that I don’t think bribes would even be needed, just cost cutting and terrible management everywhere leading to the inevitable
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is there an account yet of how this actually wound up happening? Are the crew just like, sequestered on the ship or something?
From my understanding the boat is just straight up too big for the canal. It's size combined with some physics stuff caused the water to push the boat in such a way that it got wedged sideways.
Okay no, the boat is under SuezMax limits for length, draft, and air draft (but is too wide on the beam)
There was either fuckery from the wind/weather/physics, a mechanical failure, a crew fuckup(s), and/or the Suez pilots just decided to stop giving a fuck because their bribe was too small/late
My bet is the first (wind) and the last (late $$), because there were crosswinds greater than 20kts and that is A LOT of surface area to push against (I can do the maths if you really want me to)
I'm going to assume people have been paying off authorities to drive too big ships through the canal for a while and this is the first time it bit them in the ass.
My bar for humanity after the last 4 years is so low that I don’t think bribes would even be needed, just cost cutting and terrible management everywhere leading to the inevitable
Yeah its probably not even bribes it's just some management dude going "ships are down since pandemic, find a way to get more ships or I don't get my bonus!"
is there an account yet of how this actually wound up happening? Are the crew just like, sequestered on the ship or something?
From my understanding the boat is just straight up too big for the canal. It's size combined with some physics stuff caused the water to push the boat in such a way that it got wedged sideways.
Okay no, the boat is under SuezMax limits for length, draft, and air draft (but is too wide on the beam)
There was either fuckery from the wind/weather/physics, a mechanical failure, a crew fuckup(s), and/or the Suez pilots just decided to stop giving a fuck because their bribe was too small/late
My bet is the first (wind) and the last (late $$), because there were crosswinds greater than 20kts and that is A LOT of surface area to push against (I can do the maths if you really want me to)
I really wish I was a fly on the wall of your workplace when this all just happened.
This brings up a good point - is this too early in the year to be the most common Halloween costume this year, or will it be a classic deep cut joke that only cool rebels like me wear?
It could even be a couples costume, EVER GIVEN and Sexy Suez Canal?
This brings up a good point - is this too early in the year to be the most common Halloween costume this year, or will it be a classic deep cut joke that only cool rebels like me wear?
It could even be a couples costume, EVER GIVEN and Sexy Suez Canal?
I'm 100% confident people will forget all about this in a month.
Big boats are supposed to stay on the left, the right is just for tugs. It's not deep the whole way across.
2. There's a physics effect where when a ship gets close to a bank, pressure starts pulling it in.
3. 'Wind'
4. The ship is so damn big that once it started drifting to the side from 3, 2 made it spin even harder, and the size meant it blocked off the entire canal. And 1 means that it's actually grounded on a significant length of the ship, not just the part the excavator was digging out.
Basically the size of the thing turned what would be a minor piloting oopsie into a global economic disaster.
I'm also good at science and in my opinion the boat is stuck because when water goes over sand the sand gets real sticky, and some of that sticky sand got on the boat and then the boat got stuck
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Everybody's watching the ship now, might as well start recouping losses
Finally someone is doing something
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We could build a canal around the boat, over Sauron's defenses!
They were too busy recording "Hotel California"
tweeter is some guy
From my understanding the boat is just straight up too big for the canal. It's size combined with some physics stuff caused the water to push the boat in such a way that it got wedged sideways.
You gonna tell that to a big ship?
yeah but like, how does a boat that's too big for the canal wind up in the canal? I assume these routes are planned like, well in advance and the captain's not just like 'yanno, we could shave off a couple days if we cut through the suez and I gotta get home before my dvr fills up'
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
It's a modern day Odyssey
My bar for humanity after the last 4 years is so low that I don’t think bribes would even be needed, just cost cutting and terrible management everywhere leading to the inevitable
That sounds like the music in the Mass Effect games.
Okay no, the boat is under SuezMax limits for length, draft, and air draft (but is too wide on the beam)
There was either fuckery from the wind/weather/physics, a mechanical failure, a crew fuckup(s), and/or the Suez pilots just decided to stop giving a fuck because their bribe was too small/late
My bet is the first (wind) and the last (late $$), because there were crosswinds greater than 20kts and that is A LOT of surface area to push against (I can do the maths if you really want me to)
Yeah its probably not even bribes it's just some management dude going "ships are down since pandemic, find a way to get more ships or I don't get my bonus!"
I really wish I was a fly on the wall of your workplace when this all just happened.
That'll just make the ship harder to move.
Edit: unless the leak is really big, then the other ships can go through.
It could even be a couples costume, EVER GIVEN and Sexy Suez Canal?
I'm 100% confident people will forget all about this in a month.
1. The canal isn't as big as it looks.
Big boats are supposed to stay on the left, the right is just for tugs. It's not deep the whole way across.
2. There's a physics effect where when a ship gets close to a bank, pressure starts pulling it in.
3. 'Wind'
4. The ship is so damn big that once it started drifting to the side from 3, 2 made it spin even harder, and the size meant it blocked off the entire canal. And 1 means that it's actually grounded on a significant length of the ship, not just the part the excavator was digging out.
Basically the size of the thing turned what would be a minor piloting oopsie into a global economic disaster.