Suez C anal blockage

[lizard]

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Line of ships trying to get through:
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[dravnx]

Guess they should have paid for the Vessel Assist insurance after all.

 

[Yakoo752]

No locks on the Suez, just a big ol' ditch between two oceans.

That's nuts

~10% of the worlds cargo traffic goes through a river that has virtually 0 infrastructure developed on it



We push 150' - 300' ships down the Mississippi but I am getting a feeling that's small peanuts compared

 

[wazzuFreddo]

"The deal is as good as done, just have to run it by legal, should be a quick turn."

 

[Yakoo752]

I asked why they haven’t just hooked up land winches. The .mil could hookup some heavies and just pull it from land

Risk of damage is too high right now

CraY

 

[buellistic]

If there was gold in the sand.
A couple of big dredges would have all cleaned it up already..

 

[bpw]

I asked why they haven’t just hooked up land winches. The .mil could hookup some heavies and just pull it from land

Risk of damage is too high right now

CraY

What winches have that kind of pull power? And what would they anchor them too?

 

[Yakoo752]

What winches have that kind of pull power? And what would they anchor them too?

Bring in the 1175th and their HETs which regularly tow 65 ton Abrahms tanks

Hook a bunch up together

But again, not sure the sand can support

 

[Climber]

What winches have that kind of pull power? And what would they anchor them too?

Weld hundreds of plates onto the side of the ship, every 10 feet.
Drive hundreds of pilings into the ground and hook up winches.

 

[Yakoo752]

Weld hundreds of plates onto the side of the ship, every 10 feet.
Drive hundreds of pilings into the ground and hook up winches.

Yeah. Probably gonna have to get very creative here

 

[ThumperX]

I think draft reduction is the best approach. I imagine we will see this next with removal of cargo and lift bags.
I don't know if the substrate on either sides of the canal would support the size anchor required to get seriouis winch power out there.

 

[cheez]

I hazard a guess that this will be a strong argument in favor of electric land mules like the Panama Canal has. Can't imagine how much such a thing would cost, though- even with just the two stretches and not the Great Bitter Lake, Small Bitter Lake, and Lake Timsah in the mix, it's roughly 90mi of canal, about 60% of that has bypass canals so there are two abreast. That's a lot of complex e-locomotive infrastructure to build, in a very remote place without much source of power other than solar...

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[scootergmc]

The Dutch have been dispatched. If they can't do it, they'll have to dig a new C anal.

 

[Yakoo752]

I think draft reduction is the best approach. I imagine we will see this next with removal of cargo and lift bags.
I don't know if the substrate on either sides of the canal would support the size anchor required to get seriouis winch power out there.

I was waiting on you to chime in with your actual professional experience



I was / am just speculating with my sailor experience, you are a whole 'nother level.

 

[bpw]

Bring in the 1175th and their HETs which regularly tow 65 ton Abrahms tanks

Hook a bunch up together

But again, not sure the sand can support

For a sense of scale, every single one of those containers weighs up to 40 tons.

I have never dealt with stuff anywhere near this size, but as Thumper said, it ain't going anywhere unless they get it pretty much entirely floated.

 

[ThumperX]

For a sense of scale, every single one of those containers weighs up to 40 tons.

I have never dealt with stuff anywhere near this size, but as Thumper said, it ain't going anywhere unless they get it pretty much entirely floated.

Still mortified that you witnessed one of our salvage failures (stupid rotten tugboat

Also a huge concern now is pirates. The ships stacking up are prey.

Also Qanon is already concocting ties to this event, the fire at the Evergreen assisted living center, and Hillary Clinton. The world we live in.

 

[bpw]

Still mortified that you witnessed one of our salvage failures (stupid rotten tugboat

Last I heard you guys are experts at salvaging "boats" not "rotten f*cking piles of timber that vaguely resemble boats"

What a cluster that whole thing was, so glad I had nothing to do with it. I think that adventure wound up costing a few hundred thousand dollars by the time all was done, and that was only a 100ft boat sunk right next to a dock.

 

[ThumperX]

Last I heard you guys are experts at salvaging "boats" not "rotten f*cking piles of timber that vaguely resemble boats"

What a cluster that whole thing was, so glad I had nothing to do with it. I think that adventure wound up costing a few hundred thousand dollars by the time all was done, and that was only a 100ft boat sunk right next to a dock.

It only cost us about $25k in divers and equipment but... win some lose some.

 

[dravnx]

https://i.imgur.com/cCVNLo7.jpeg

 

[Climber]

https://i.imgur.com/cCVNLo7.jpeg

That looks kind of like trying to eat a large bowl of fried rice with a single toothpick.