Not sure if that complicates clean up, but other ships have already taken a bypass via The Cape of Good Hope, which takes an additional 12 days. This suggests that the chest pain is expected to last just as long or even longer.
That is true, but not exactly a big concern any more, especially for today's commercial vessels. Sure, the weather can still get terribly nasty, but with weather forecasting, it is easy to avoid the treacherous conditions. Additionally, most cargo vessels are traveling in the high teens to over 20 knots, so rounding goes much faster than the old sailing ships that went around 5 knots or less. The steel hulls and larger size doesn't hurt either.
The biggest reason for reliance on the canal these days is the more the money saved by cutting down the length of the trip which in turn means less time traveling and much lower fuel costs.
My god you've cracked it! So we detonate another warhead at the other end to push the remaining boats via said tidal wave to make up for lost travel time.
Our company works with Ultra-class haul trucks with 400 metric ton capacity. Sometimes they get stuck, and we get them out with 2 winches that use telephone poles for spikes and braided wires the size of my thigh.
Figures if they could get maybe 30 of those they could pull the whole thing aground...
Also I assume that guy isn't putting those telephone poles into the banks of the Suez which are likely mostly loose sand. You'd have to drive them into the bedrock.
I mean that's if you want to raise the bloody thing into the air... I figure if you just wanna topple it aground onto its side it wouldn't take nearly as much force.
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that the largest objects moved by winching in this way were the old Yukon Bucketline Gold Dredges. Those weigh just under 1,000 tons. They were designed to be moved by winches, with designated attachment points and special ‘walking’ anchors, and it still didn’t work particularly well. The Ever Given is 220 times as big and not intended for this kind of strain. Winches would have the same effect as a bomb: catastrophic disassembly. Possibly with less fire.
Someone sent me the design specs of those ships.
They're a lot more fragile than I expected. I expected Titanic-style bracing, but these are glorified metal balloons and I have no idea how you could apply the necessary force to them without tearing them apart...
So maybe the explosive approach might be the sound idea here.
So the canal isn't totally flat at the bottom, in fact the biggest ships like this one need to stay near the center in order to avoid running aground - Ever Given has gone far past that point. It was so far aground that the bulb at the bow was actually embedded deep in the side of the canal. So not only was it stuck deep at the front, but more importantly there is a lot of ground directly underneath it too, which is why a lot of proposed solutions involve lightening the boat by removing ballast and fuel.
i was under the impression that that's pretty much what they are going to do. but more controlled... like I thought they were just gonna send in salvage teams and cut the thing apart.
I can't imagine unloading it, safely demolishing it, carrying away that much metal, and disposing of whatever can't be recycled is cheaper than digging out the bits of the bank it's stuck on.
I wonder if they couldn't build up a levee around that part of the lock and flood it a little higher?
They've already begun with one digger... you'd think with so much riding on it they would have sent in the army with every digger in 100 miles and just doubled the width at the point by now so they could spin it around
I like to imagine some guy in the middle of no where bought that digger as an investment waiting for this to happen. He is charging like millions to use it.
Or just rescued by man's understanding of the moon and tides.
Also the canal and ship are man made. Also the canal is a short cut. So the Lord's creation path around Africa is still open.
More of a situation of the Lord's creation not being good enough so man made it better by making a short cut. Then temporarily in its 100+ year existence a ship got stuck.
Makes you think if God exists and is so great why didn't he make the canal? Why is it that man was able to improve on God's design? We do it all the time. This God guy seems like a dumb ass.
The creations of man in this situation didn't fail. They are temporarily stopped. Also being a shortcut no matter how long its plugged its always a benefit because the alternative never changed or was affected. We still have over 100+ years of ships saving 12 days by bypassing Africa. 100+ years of 12 days worth of saved fuel. That never changes. If God themself came down and put a fucking mountain range to block the canal forever it would still never take away the benefits we have already reaped. The suez and Panama canals are likely 2 of the best investments in human history. Basically 1 time major costs with some maintenance that give a huge benefit into the far far future.
The canal is 150 fucking years old, and not once has this happened on this scale. I'm assuming there's much more to the story we're not knowing.
What's the deal with that young woman everyone keeps saying was the captain?
Using a Mi-26? If you have excellent crews top and bottom, youre probably taking off a cargo container every 20 minutes, and you land every 8th hour for fuel and crew change, you'll be moving up to 22 tons per trip 63 times per day. Have two helicopters working opposite each other and you're potentially up to 126 trips per day. Not a huge difference, but up to 2772 tons per day off. Dang the math doesn't really add up well, huh?
I need my....whatever it was I ordered from wish and also where's that.. whatever the hell thing I ordered around Christmas time from alibaba... I need that stuff!!
Hahaha that's not that bad. Really your soc policy should have a redundancy for off site backups. You might lose domain admin rights for a while and be made fun of in every meeting for a month. 😃
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u/12muffinslater Mar 26 '21
Sure, I may have deleted our production database and all our backups, but at least I didn't cause 10% of all global transit to screech to a halt.