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Has this ever happened before? I remember going through the canal in the Gulf War and wondering how fast winds got over that desert, and whether it complicated things much.
They forgot the Johnny Walker Black
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âAhmed Mekawy, an assistant manager at the port agent GACâs Egypt office, retracted an earlier statement announcing that the vessel had been partially refloated, saying the claim was based on inaccurate information.â
I saw where the statement was retracted.
Agreed, they should have coughed up the bonded stores when they had the chance.
Now itâs âSo sorry, my friendâ
If this was my SNAFU to untangle, Iâd be busy driving 1x1 sheet piling squares on the banks (the equipment to do so must be on hand) while scrounging around for blocks and wire rope. Not that I know what Iâm doingâŠ
âŠbut wait:
Salvage Master Björkmann to the rescue! Why donât you head down there and show them how itâs done? If you tell them the gCaptain forum sent you, we can all be heroes!
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I have actually been to Suez >50 times for various reasons and watched the convoy show many times from shore. MS EVER GIVEN has draft 15.9 meters but the Canal is deeper, so she didnât go aground as reported by media. She or rather her bulbous bow contacted the canal wall at an angle and got stuck. But the interesting thing is at the anchorage south of the canal (where the pilots board) where a lot of local merchants offer their services of all kind. They also board the ships and sometimes get off at Port Said after biz has been completed. Security is slack. EVER GIVEN with a crew of 20 has no chance to control who gets aboard. Maybe they forgot to fit the search light at the bow and didnât see the side of the canal in the dark morning light? Or did they see anything at all from the bridge?
What part of this is not considered âgoing agroundâ? Is everything some sinister conspiracy to you?
That ship is most certainly aground. This was not just a âhard landingâ. No media bias is needed to make that point.
Going aground means normally that the bottom gets stuck on a reef or sea floor, which didnât happen here. No, here the ship contacted a fixed structure - the canal wall - and got stuck. We donât know why. Accident? Or something sinister?? Or the pilot didnât see the side of the canal in the dark? Or they forgot to switch on the Suez Canal search light? But wait! Maybe she is aground? The canal wall was sheared off and filled the canal bottom and the ship is now aground on the rubble? The displacement of the ship may be >250 000 tons and with a speed of 6 m/s the energy/force applied to the canal wall in contact was enormous. Maybe the fore peak is flooded? I wonder how long it will take to sort out this mess. The voyage data recorder should tell time, speed and direction of the contact with the canal wall. Re sand storms, when they occur, you just slow down/stop and are pushed sideways against the canal bank. It happens often.
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Hereâs a pretty informative article
Yeah, this is turning out to be an expensive little mistake.
The T̶h̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶b̶i̶r̶d̶s̶ Dutch to the rescueâŠ
Efforts to pull off the huge ship Ever Given have been delayed due to low water levels. It is too early to say exactly how long the job will take. âWe cannot rule out that it could take weeks, depending on the situation,â said Peter Berdowski, CEO of Boskalis. The Dutch company will be in Egypt from Thursday to help pull the colossus afloat.
According to the Boskalis CEO, both the bow and the stern of the ship have been lifted on both sides of the canal. âItâs like a beached whale. Itâs a huge weight on the sand. We may have to work with a combination of reducing weight by taking containers, oil and water on and off the ship, dredging tugs and sand.
âThe more secure the ship is, the longer such an operation will take. It can take days to weeks. Think of the supply of the equipment we need, which is not around the corner, âsays Berdowski.
âDredgers are already clearing sand and mud from around the ship, while tugs are in charge of getting the ship moving,â said Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), Ever Givenâs technical manager.
The work to free the ship has previously been delayed due to low water and the unfavorable weather conditions with a lot of wind.
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I get worried when shipping media talk about a ship grounding of unknown cause in the Suez Canal and re-floating after a contact with the vertical canal wall. How can you run aground in a canal? Have they forgotten to dredge the canal? And re-float? Is the ship sunk and its hull damaged with flooded double bottom compartments? Have they sounded the tanks. And what about Covid-19??? Are all parties properly tested and vaxxed? And high/low tides in the Suez Canal? A problem?? But letâs not forget that Egypt today is an authoritarian dictatorship with no free press, etc. Corruption is everywhere. And since the cold war the Russian presence in Egypt is important. The biggest loser just now is poor Egypt itself. No canal tolls!
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Canal wall. Really? You donât seem to take the trouble to read the posts.
This is not an Amsterdam-Rhine Canal where you have the same depth over the entire width. You are dealing with an avenue in the middle that is up to 25 meters deep, but soon after that it goes to 15 meters, to 11 meters, and then even less to the ends. The ship is 15.7 meters deep. Especially at the front the ship is a meter on the slope,
When a ship maneuvers out the avenue in the middle of the fairway it will soon touch the bottom of the canal while it still is a consirable distance from the shoreline.
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@Dutchie
The Suez Canal is just between East Med and Red Sea without any tides or locks. It is just a (French)man made dike in a desert that was filled with water after construction a long time ago. Today it belongs to Egypt and many Egyptians are not happy about their leaders in charge living high with the Suez Canal income. So I think the latest incident is a 100% Egyptian affair. Sabotage! It is quite easy to close the Canal, as we have seen. And please, donât blame me for it. I just look on the drama. So my Egyptian friends hit their Egyptian enemies at their weakest point - the money!
Man pits earth moving equipment against ship; bulbous thingy resists.
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Heiwa, this quote is from you, from your website ( frikken-nutjob. com?) 
âNo atomic bombs ever exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945. News about 100 000âs of Japanese being vaporized in a nanoseconds FLASH and disappearing in thin air or slowly being killed by nuclear radiation during several months afterwards autumn 1945 at various Japanese hospitals were just Fake News and propaganda!â
No sane person would trust you to screw in a light bulb, let alone consult on maritime safety.
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If Iâm being honest. I have âbulbous thingyâ envyâŠ
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