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Bingo. It's long, fat, and like the pharaohs ... buried in Egypt.
Snip snip. Just cut the tip off.
And have it sink there permanently?
Is that ship still stuck?
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I've had the exact same idea but the canal bank is very shallow.. so you would have to build around the whole ship (as you said). This also seems like a major undertaking. I am excited to see how they will solve the problem though!
You might end up getting it stuck higher . Then what?
if we keep going then the other ships can just duck.
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#473Just another non-expert, but I wonder if the simplest approach might be to pump water under it to wash away the sand it's beached on. Googling, it seems that this is a recognised technique for dredging: https://www.iadc-dredging.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fac... Whether it works might be dependent on what kind of soil its sitting on and whether the current is strong enough to take away the dislodged particles. I…
Can someone explain why dredging alone isn't sufficient? Is it too slow?
Really deep keel in not much water. At shore zero water. Ie It’s properly stuck
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Strap it to a Falcon Heavy.
How many falcon heavies would we need to lift 200,000 metric tons?
Apparently Falcon Heavy has 5 million lbs of thrust, so about 88 Falcon Heavies?
SuperHeavy will have 17 million lbs of thrust so if Elon could deliver 25 SuperHeavy boosters with a total of 700 Raptor engines it could lift the Ever Given? Someone should simulate this in Kerbal.
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#476Surprised nobody has suggested blowing it up yet haha
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#477I don't think people are giving enough credit to how stuck the ship is. Look at some of the photos of the front of it. Look at how far out of the water it is sitting. The ship might look like that if it were totally empty, but not when it is full of containers like this. Some people saying: just drag it off of the sand. Okay! And what happens when that causes you to rip a hole into the hull of the ship? Now it's real…
Could you build a temporary barrier around the ship and the section of the canal, bring in some massive pumps, and temporarily raise the water level around the ship? Edit: Something like this https://www.hydrologicalsolutions.com/aqua-barrier-cofferdam...
Wow that link - well thats a clever system! I would have never come up with something like that yet it's so simple in hindsight!
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> Again the infrastructure to do this rapidly doesn't exist. The UAE used several sand-vacuuming ships to build their artificial islands, wouldn't those do the job?
The dredging for that project was done by a Belgian and a Dutch company, and I don't think they left their ships and equipment there afterwards.
It also took many years.
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#479Get Elon's boring machines to dig in the right location(s) ...
Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#480Just another non-expert, but I wonder if the simplest approach might be to pump water under it to wash away the sand it's beached on. Googling, it seems that this is a recognised technique for dredging: https://www.iadc-dredging.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fac... Whether it works might be dependent on what kind of soil its sitting on and whether the current is strong enough to take away the dislodged particles. I…
Can someone explain why dredging alone isn't sufficient? Is it too slow?
I expect dredging will be the main solution. Dredges are just slow moving, so they’ve taken a while to arrive.
I’d also expect some long reach excavators and/or draglines to be working from the shore and/or barges.
They probably just underestimated the stuckedness at first. Throw in some ineptitude and corruption, and you have this royal mess.