Mega container ship hard aground in Suez Canal | EVER GIVEN - FleetMon Maritime News

The tide is getting higher over the next few days but so is the tidal range, the stresses on the vessel at low tide must be immense, perhaps a danger she will crack.

The APL Panama took 75 days to refloat after grounding on a sandbar near Ensenada. This deal in the Suez may take a while.

Yes, Spork, but those stresses are being borne by the sharpest ends of the ship, those most likely to dig in as the tide ebbs. It’s not as if she were aground on rock. What I haven’t seen is the state of the tide when the ship speared into the bank. Keep watching the action tonight and, if it doe…

[image] Suez Canal: Satellite Clues on a Stricken Cargo Ship - bellingcat At 400m, the Ever Given is hard to miss. That makes satellite imagery ideal in understanding more about the cargo ship's predicament.

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Like the wind restrictions on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel…

[image] c.captain: because John permits such a person to even be able to post to this forum shows how little he cares Yeah I can think of a few people that should be banned. :man_shrugging: [image] c.captain: traveling too slowly for the rudder to have real effect. She was going thirt…

[image] Jon Jennings (JonJennings) All these #EverGiven posts about "just dig out the bow" fail to appreciate quite HOW grounded she is. This topographic map from myshiptracking.com shows the dredged shipping lane is only the left-hand 2/3 of the channel. I suspect the front 1/3 of the sh…

The distance from for instance Rotterdam via the Canal to Singapore is 8233 sea miles. From Rotterdam via Cape Town to Singapore is 11736 miles. With a speed of 22 knots of a container ship this is an extra distance of 3497 miles and requires almost a week. During the Suez Canal crisis I made three…

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They’re trying.

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