Suez blocked by stuck ship!

[hidetheelephants]

Bank effect
Squat

[Sheepshanks]

Digga said:

^This.

In a similar way, ou can get the same effect with canal barges in very shallow sections - if you give it too much throttle, you can effectively pull the water out from under the boat and stick it too the bottom of the cut.

I did that - didn't know I could run aground in a canal, and I assumed brute power would free it. It didn't.

[oobster]

Jazzy Jag said:

The Mad Monk said:

Ever Given documentary. BBC2 tonight.

You've just missed it. Iplayer is the answer.

The Egyptians reckon it was the fault of the ship's captain and crew. I reckon it was the fault of the pilots.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0013p1f/why...

Thanks.
I'm watching it now and I'm a little bit in love with a ship's engineer.

Yea she was lovely.

[Arnold Cunningham]

Caused by a.....venturi.....

Just reading the wiki pages on the squat stuff. This'd make your sphincter quiver in case you got the calcs wrong:

"The third largest cruise ship in the world, MS Oasis of the Seas, used this effect to obtain an extra margin of clearance between the vessel and the Great Belt bridge, Denmark, 1 November 2009, on a voyage from the shipyard in Turku, Finland to Florida, USA.[5] The new cruise liner passed under the bridge at 20 knots (37 km/h) in the shallow channel, giving the ship extra clearance due to a 30 cm squat."

hidetheelephants said:

Bank effect
Squat

Edited by Arnold Cunningham on Wednesday 19th January 18:54

[gazzarose]

Arnold Cunningham said:

Caused by a.....venturi.....

Just reading the wiki pages on the squat stuff. This'd make your sphincter quiver in case you got the calcs wrong:

"The third largest cruise ship in the world, MS Oasis of the Seas, used this effect to obtain an extra margin of clearance between the vessel and the Great Belt bridge, Denmark, 1 November 2009, on a voyage from the shipyard in Turku, Finland to Florida, USA.[5] The new cruise liner passed under the bridge at 20 knots (37 km/h) in the shallow channel, giving the ship extra clearance due to a 30 cm squat."

hidetheelephants said:

Bank effect
Squat

Edited by Arnold Cunningham on Wednesday 19th January 18:54

I just scrolled down to add this reply. Although I couldn't remember the ships name or the name of the bridge. I watched a program about it, gunning it and could have been a proper "Watch this Youtube!"

[pincher]

Oh gawd! They've only gone and done it again!!!!

(Click on pic in link for video)



https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/sdw...

[Seight_Returns]

pincher said:

Oh gawd! They've only gone and done it again!!!!

(Click on pic in link for video)



https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/sdw...

Probably more interested in the truck's second engineer than keeping his eyes on the road ....

Edited by Seight_Returns on Wednesday 2nd February 10:37

[thegreenhell]

And another, this time the ironically-named Ever Forward

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ever-forward-cargo-sh...

[Slackline]

Is there a technical issue with this companies navigation systems maybe? Or is someone playing around with it... I seem to recall the last one left a track shaped like a penis in the bay before fking the Suez

[hidetheelephants]

Slackline said:

Is there a technical issue with this companies navigation systems maybe? Or is someone playing around with it... I seem to recall the last one left a track shaped like a penis in the bay before fking the Suez

The current effort just looks like a garden variety "people who look out of windows for a living got distracted and didn't turn at the necessary point" cock up. No great panic as it's stuck on a load of mud and not in the navigable channel, might be a while unsticking it though.

[Simpo Two]

thegreenhell said:

And another, this time the ironically-named Ever Forward

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ever-forward-cargo-sh...

Ah splendid, another 2% on inflation.

[hidetheelephants]

Unsticking plan.
GCaptain; Ever Forward plan revealed

[eldar]

From the picture in that article, the ship looks incredibly top heavy. I'm assuming it is perfectly stable, unless it has propelled its self 10 meters up a hill.

[Simpo Two]

Evergreen must be using the same agency as P&O Ferries...

[Dogwatch]

Simpo Two said:

Evergreen must be using the same agency as P&O Ferries...

Not having much luck with pilots either, unless they are being ignored.

Apparently the two harbour tugs pushing the Port side are also there to act as brakes if the ship comes free and heads briskly towards the opposite bank…

[Dogwatch]

Simpo Two said:

Evergreen must be using the same agency as P&O Ferries...

Not having much luck with pilots either, unless they are being ignored.

Apparently the two harbour tugs pushing the Port side are also there to act as brakes if the ship comes free and heads briskly towards the opposite bank…

[FourWheelDrift]

Here we go again - https://twitter.com/MikeSchuler/status/15651008522...

Affinity V - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships...



Status "aground"

[andy_s]

Was just going to say. So instead I'll say:

[dudleybloke]

Oh ship!

[mattyprice4004]

We’ve got a container on a ship due through next week.
Predicting some fun and games at work if that doesn’t get moving!