Footage of the backlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhSzxe0FuIE Presumably in the Gulf of Suez.
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Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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#202How does a huge ship like that get stuck in that orientation wrt. the canal? These things don't really turn on a dime I presume.
Edit: Go to https://www.myshiptracking.com/ and use the Playback button with timestamp 23/03/2021 06:15:00 to see the ship drifting left and right.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just call Capcom. “Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”. Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391
You forgot “Pro”, which is what makes a variant the bigger one.
I thought Pro meant remove all of the ports, and make it ultra thin
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#204https://twitter.com/MarineTraffic/status/1374650543344390147...
It's pretty insane that I can track what ship is where on the other side of the planet in real time.
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#205Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
In 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), while that with a capacity greater than 20,000 TEU as an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS) They are gonna run out of larger adjectives pretty soon.
While it's not SI yet, they could still use Hella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix I'm all for Hella Container Ship
Now, hella is just a modifier. Hella Big Container Ship dwarfs Hella Small Excavator
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#207Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's another ship. The tweet is about "Ever Given", not "Evergreen". Edit: Comparing with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship... it might or might not have been the ship. Evergreen is the name of the company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Marine
Evergreen is one of the shipping companies from Taiwan. Incidentally, one of my favorite airlines EVA Air is their spinoff airline, based in Taipei (and far better than the flag carrier China Airlines)
The ship is Japanese operated by Taiwanese company, according to NHK News this evening in Japan. The ship ran aground due to bad weather conditions, poor visibility due to sand storm.
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#209Compare the red/black line on the ship's hull and the water line. Under normal conditions, the red/black line is parallel to the water across the length of the ship: https://www.google.com/search?q=evergreen+ever+given&source=... In this picture of the ship stuck in the Suez, the red/black line appears to tilt noticeably upwards towards the bow: https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1374480496789393412 If this isn'…
All ships of this size have a number of large ballast tanks that they use to pump seawater in and out to compensate for placement of cargo.
My guess would be that they've emptied the ballast tanks in the end that has run aground and filled them in the other end to rise the keel.
Re: Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
#210How does a huge ship like that get stuck in that orientation wrt. the canal? These things don't really turn on a dime I presume. Edit: Go to https://www.myshiptracking.com/ and use the Playback button with timestamp 23/03/2021 06:15:00 to see the ship drifting left and right.
From one of the twitter threads on the topic: "power blackout".
So likely the ship was uncontrollable and drifted into the bank. There seems to be evidence that there its bulbous bow is embedded in the bank.