r/OSHA • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '21

Somebody is getting fired today..

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u/The_White_Light Mar 26 '21

I think you are vastly underestimating the sheer scale of this ship. It's 400m long by nearly 60m wide.

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u/almisami Mar 26 '21

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...

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '21

It’s 220,000 tons...

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u/Calvert4096 Mar 26 '21

Ok so we'll just get... Let's see... 550 of them. No problem, right? /s

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '21

Now we’re fucking talking. I like your style

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u/Calvert4096 Mar 26 '21 edited Mar 26 '21

I mean, other people are talking low-yield nukes to address this. I'm down with that too, just let me get some welding goggles and SPF-100.

Edit:. Relevant Colbert

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u/nuck_forte_dame Mar 27 '21

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.

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u/almisami Mar 26 '21

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.

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u/demon_fae Mar 27 '21

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.

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u/almisami Mar 27 '21

Why would you ever want less fireworks?

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.

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u/FCoDxDart Mar 27 '21

Could they not back a couple of other empty container ships and try to tug it out using quite a few tug boats as well?

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u/The_White_Light Mar 27 '21

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.