I know it is a big ship, and it seems like Achmed with a back hoe isn’t going to cut it. Why not take a page out of the Egyptian attack across by using water jets to erode out material and free the bow? I assume that has a bulb bow and is pretty well stuck in there.
Yea, they need to get that canal up and running again. Europe needs oil!
I have never dealt with a recovery of that scale, but between a life of four wheeling and a career in construction I have a LOT of experience getting things unstuck. Looks like they are digging out the ends, that is the right move. There is gonna be the weight of the material that was displaced, the drag against that material, and the suction of that saturated material to overcome.
That is a shitload of mass to get moving, add to that the factors I listed above and it can be insurmountable. I have seen a 25 ton excavator buried in the mud so bad that a 300 ton crane couldn’t pull it out. We had to dig it out first and then drag it out. I could see jetting water or air along the hull helping, but I think digging is the right answer. The hadji leading the recovery is thinking they’ll have the cork out over the weekend.
I don’t know how it works in the Suez. Does a pilot come aboard and command the ship all the way through? I’ve heard wind pushed that big bitch around, and I’ve heard aggressive maneuvering. I’m guessing someone(s) gonna be sweating it out hard in front of a review panel over this.
You just need a yellow XJ and a yellow rope!
Don’t they have to unload the ship first? That’s like one of the biggest ships in the world and it’s fully loaded with cargo containers.
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Dig out both ends, have the Egyptian Army up with a Brigade of Tanks daisy chain them like you would for a mired tank. Pull both ends in opposite directions and go to town.
I would think they would just hook up some buoyancy “balloons” to the ship and carry on.
Canal moves 10 Billion worth of goods per day & say it will take weeks…they are going to have to remove containers & then relieve the water ballasts. Word is it’s gotta get a lot lighter to get unstuck. ‘Evergreen’ blew up the net the day this happened. How’s this for coincidences:
Scott Borgerson is said to be the main boss man for Evergreen & supposed husband of Maxine Ghislaine.
The same day the vessel got stuck in the canal, a nursing home in NY caught fire causing one death & several injured including NYFD…Evergreen Court Home for Adults.
The US Secret Service had a code name for Hilary Clinton…Evergreen.
The call sign for the stuck vessel is H3RC.
One of the tugboats that attempted to unstick had a call sign of Baraka1.
Can’t make this shit up.
Does anyone honestly believe this wasn’t intentional?
And then there is this mystery!!!
https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/cargo-ship-drew-penis-before-getting-stuck-in-suez-canal/
Journalism 101…saying traffic has resumed??
Perhaps they could blow it up and pull the pieces out.
I am a ship pilot myself, but here in the states.
Yes, vessels take a pilot to transit the Suez canal. Probably a couple of different pilots for the entire 120 mile transit with a potential for anchoring in the lake in the middle of the two narrow sections. This particular ship was said to have been 5th in a convoy of northbound ships that day with several more behind her.
Lots of speculation. I’ve seen comments from a Suez pilot saying a gust of wind caused the initial problem. That could happen.
Anyone want to speculate what side the wind would have come from to make her steer to stbd? Hint: It has to do with the vessels pivot point while making headway.
Not ruling that out. A wind gust could have initiated the track I saw where it appeared she sheared off the east bank, then the west bank even harder and finally slammed into the east bank bow first.
According to the reports of the convoy though, she was the only one that lost complete control in this “wind gust”. So is the wind gust solely to blame? If it was so windy, I believe pilots world wide would shut down transits until the wind slacked off.
Another comment suggested that the Captain said “the bridge team lost control of the ship”…so a loss of steering?, loss of the engine?, a total blackout of the whole vessel? Or was it literally a loss of control and human error will be the majority factor? Anyone in the maritime industry would not want to hear that.
It might even be a combination of all that.
Now we all need to know that when a vessel has a pilot on board and is in “pilotage waters” the bower anchors (usually two, so both anchors) are made ready for emergency use. This means they can be dropped by simply releasing a static brake. This can be done without any power in the event of a loss of steering, or blackout, or any imaginable emergency scenario where the vessels “way” would need to be drastically reduced or stopped. On top of that there needs to be a means from doing this from the vessels bridge location or it is required that a person who is competent it emergency releasing of the anchor(s) and setting the brake will be standing by at the anchor winches and have direct comms available, usually a radio. This persons is usually of officer status or at minimum a Bosun.
If a blackout or loss of steering occurred, why didn’t the captain nor the pilot order the anchor(s) to be dropped? Or were they not ready? Or was there a malfunction there? I’m not saying that deploying could have stopped or even really slowed the vessel. But so far in all the photos and reports neither anchor was released. It will come up in court I’m sure.
Sorry. I’m starting to Monday morning quarterback now.
Simply, no one, at least on this side of the world, is privy to anything just yet. We may never be.
With all this in mind, the only pictures I have seen are the ones with several large tug boats on site pushing and pulling, trying to free her. And the one little excavator scratching dirt off her bow. I think I saw a dive vessel on site today on AIS apps. But I want to know where are the dredge vessels? Where is a drag line operation that can move mounds of dirt long distances? As mentioned above, where are the water jets to start blowing the sediment clear from the stuck portions of the ship? And lastly, where is a lightering vessel with a big crane to start picking off containers to decrease her draft? I realize we are half a world away and that every one of those questions has a legitimate answer. But that’s just where I am right now.
It sucks for all involved no doubt.
I know a retired city engineer who could help. :rolleyes:
[video=youtube_share;yPuaSY0cMK8]http://youtu.be/yPuaSY0cMK8[/video]
Could be truth, all those containers constitute a giant sail.
The older I get, the less I believe in coincidences.
George Soros, Bill Gates, the Davos globalists, and the shadowy cabal that controls Joe Biden are sending us a message.
The way things are right now, something like this could very well be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
:lol: Still lore here in Oregon. :lol:
Damn D.T.