Suez C anal blockage

[afm199]

https://twitter.com/SuezDiggerGuy

 

[NorCalAthlete]

Up next on Smarter Every Day: How many ping pong balls does it take to refloat a stuck cargo ship enough to make it through the Suez Canal?

 

[Jammer]

Removed for political content

 

[bojangle]

 

[afm199]

Removed for political content .

Had to go there.

 

[Eldritch]

dude the memes

 

[JesasaurusRex]

Had to go there.

Worth a chuckle

 

[GAJ]

This is a good article.

The only helicopters that can lift ONE fucking container are Chinook Skyhawks, unless the Russian have a model. Those are mostly in the US and it would cost close to $2 million to just FLY one to the Suez Canal, lol. They can move one, yes, one container at a time, out of 20,000 containers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...nds-of-big-steel-boxes-off-a-ship-in-the-suez

Maybe if they move just one it will float!

 

[HappyHighwayman]

Clearly the solution is to expand the canal to twice it's width.

 

[tuxumino]

Clearly the solution is to expand the canal to twice it's width.

my peanuts can do that

 

[Yakoo752]

This is a good article.

The only helicopters that can lift ONE fucking container are Chinook Skyhawks, unless the Russian have a model. Those are mostly in the US and it would cost close to $2 million to just FLY one to the Suez Canal, lol. They can move one, yes, one container at a time, out of 20,000 containers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...nds-of-big-steel-boxes-off-a-ship-in-the-suez

Yeah but it’s holding up like a B a day in commerce

$2M is peanuts

 

[bojangle]

my peanuts can do that

That's alot of peanuts!

 

[Eldritch]

my peanuts can do that

How exactly to we use DEEZ NUTZ?

 

[ThumperX]

They need to call Schmidt to bring in their 2 HUGE jackup rigs and get the containers off even if it means floating them out. If they screw up the dredging and leave any part of that behemoth unsupported it’s over for months.

 

[Yakoo752]

Probably not deep enough to bring in a AFDB? Not sure what is commissioned anymore either

These are section able and each section can lift 100,000 tons. I've been on/in the one in Sigonella for a "quick" repair.

 

[tuxumino]

That's alot of peanuts!

How exactly to we use DEEZ NUTZ?

as the actress said to the bishop.

can a chinook out lift a skycrane?

 

[Climber]

2 tugboats speed to Egypt's Suez Canal as shippers avoid it

Now, this part I don't understand.

Excavators dug Sunday on the eastern wall of the Suez Canal, hoping to free the bulbous bow of the Ever Given that plowed into the embankment, satellite photos showed.

I would expected the nose to go in first, then the back end swung around. Why wouldn't you try to get it out in reverse of how it got there in the first place?

Yeah, I know, they're experts and on scene. Perhaps it's a function of the side that the dredgers came from.

 

[SVJ]

I wonder if the soil is sandy enough that they could drill holes and pump a (metric?) shit ton of water under the bow to get it to release

 

[afm199]

They need to call Schmidt to bring in their 2 HUGE jackup rigs and get the containers off even if it means floating them out. If they screw up the dredging and leave any part of that behemoth unsupported it’s over for months.

That was covered in one article I read, and it was resting on the stern and bow, unsupported, until yesterday, when they managed to move it some. That keel may look like a crumpled cookie sheet.

 

[motomania2007]

I have read through all this and a couple of other articles and I admit I have no idea of how these things are done but, if a semi truck is stuck off the road, we send a similar sized tow truck to pull them out.

Why send a bunch of substantially smaller tug boats to try to push/pull the mammoth ship free instead of sending in a similar sized ship and use the big ship to pull the grounded ship free.

This is too simplistic and I must be missing something...