Suez Canal blocked by grounded megaship

Started by The Larch, March 24, 2021, 07:03:47 AM

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Sheilbh

Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 24, 2021, 12:33:59 PM
You don't need 300 lads to repair a levee that's been nudged.  Damn union organizer feather bedder.
Maybe - I just found the visual scale of the problem v scale of the solution quite funny :blush:
Let's bomb Russia!

Berkut

Your going to need a bigger bo....errrh excavator.
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Berkut

The crazy thing about these modern monster ships is how small the crews are.
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Syt

Quote from: Berkut on March 24, 2021, 12:56:07 PM
The crazy thing about these modern monster ships is how small the crews are.

They give me anxiety, because of how high the containers are stacked. It always looks to me like containers should fall off any moment, or the whole thing capsizes with one big wave (in, say, 30 MPH winds :P ). :D
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Habbaku

The ship certainly seems to have taken a somewhat rigid path en route to delivering its load:

The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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FunkMonk

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Grey Fox

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The Larch

Quote from: Syt on March 24, 2021, 01:05:45 PM
Quote from: Berkut on March 24, 2021, 12:56:07 PM
The crazy thing about these modern monster ships is how small the crews are.

They give me anxiety, because of how high the containers are stacked. It always looks to me like containers should fall off any moment, or the whole thing capsizes with one big wave (in, say, 30 MPH winds :P ). :D

You mean things like this one?  :P


Oexmelin

Now I want to play that Panamax board game.
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Syt

Quote from: The Larch on March 24, 2021, 01:26:40 PM
Quote from: Syt on March 24, 2021, 01:05:45 PM
Quote from: Berkut on March 24, 2021, 12:56:07 PM
The crazy thing about these modern monster ships is how small the crews are.

They give me anxiety, because of how high the containers are stacked. It always looks to me like containers should fall off any moment, or the whole thing capsizes with one big wave (in, say, 30 MPH winds :P ). :D

You mean things like this one?  :P

Yes :D
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Caliga

Quote from: Syt on March 24, 2021, 01:05:45 PM
They give me anxiety, because of how high the containers are stacked. It always looks to me like containers should fall off any moment, or the whole thing capsizes with one big wave (in, say, 30 MPH winds :P ). :D
I think they do in fact go overboard quite often. :hmm:
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grumbler

Quote from: Caliga on March 24, 2021, 06:06:17 PM
Quote from: Syt on March 24, 2021, 01:05:45 PM
They give me anxiety, because of how high the containers are stacked. It always looks to me like containers should fall off any moment, or the whole thing capsizes with one big wave (in, say, 30 MPH winds :P ). :D
I think they do in fact go overboard quite often. :hmm:

They are locked in pretty tightly, but mechanical failure is guaranteed given the numbers involved.
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Berkut

Quote from: grumbler on March 24, 2021, 07:50:03 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 24, 2021, 06:06:17 PM
Quote from: Syt on March 24, 2021, 01:05:45 PM
They give me anxiety, because of how high the containers are stacked. It always looks to me like containers should fall off any moment, or the whole thing capsizes with one big wave (in, say, 30 MPH winds :P ). :D
I think they do in fact go overboard quite often. :hmm:

They are locked in pretty tightly, but mechanical failure is guaranteed given the numbers involved.


Yeah...looking at that picture above, what struck me about it was that despite the stack having basically fallen over, it doesn't actually look like the containers have fallen off, which is pretty damn impressive actually.
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Maladict

They're talking days to weeks now, that's gonna hurt.

Tamas

Quote from: Maladict on March 25, 2021, 02:51:22 AM
They're talking days to weeks now, that's gonna hurt.

Have they considered bringing a second excavator? :P