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Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by jeremymcanally »

bnralt wrote: post #33

It's worth looking at the discussion of the ship just three days ago on Hacker News[1]. A lot of what people thought was true (that it would be stuck there for weeks, being dismissive of using tugboats to pull it out) didn't pan out as expected. Just a reminder that we should always take what we read with a grain of salt, and that it's fine to reserve judgement and see what will actually happen after the initial medi…

Also, if we’re being honest, a pack of software nerds on a website don’t have the deep expertise on every topic like they think they do (speaking as a software nerd on a website myself :)).

The stuff that gets posted here sometimes is...fascinating.

Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by polote »

bnralt wrote: post #33

It's worth looking at the discussion of the ship just three days ago on Hacker News[1]. A lot of what people thought was true (that it would be stuck there for weeks, being dismissive of using tugboats to pull it out) didn't pan out as expected. Just a reminder that we should always take what we read with a grain of salt, and that it's fine to reserve judgement and see what will actually happen after the initial medi…

Well the biggest luck event in this case, is that there was a dredger pretty close to the ship. If you dont have a dredger and you need to ship one there we would have wait much more time

Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by ziml77 »

I wonder how much the couple of excavators helped. I saw people on HN saying having two measly excavators was just to give the appearance of doing something and not an actual attempt to get the boat unstuck. But when I saw a photo of the digging, it looked like there was some serious progress made.

Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by JimWestergren »

"Helped by the peak of high tide, the flotilla of tugboats managed to wrench the bow of the stranded Ever Given from the canal’s sandy bank, where it had been firmly lodged since last Tuesday." - https://www.vesselfinder.com/news/20501-Ever-Given-is-Finall...

Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by divbzero »

A bit more detail here [1] and here [2]. A combination of vacuuming sand, high tide, and tugboats did the trick.

[1]: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2021/03/29/Su...

[2]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/29/ever-given-turned-8...

Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by patentatt »

polote wrote: post #42
bnralt wrote: post #33

It's worth looking at the discussion of the ship just three days ago on Hacker News[1]. A lot of what people thought was true (that it would be stuck there for weeks, being dismissive of using tugboats to pull it out) didn't pan out as expected. Just a reminder that we should always take what we read with a grain of salt, and that it's fine to reserve judgement and see what will actually happen after the initial medi…

Well the biggest luck event in this case, is that there was a dredger pretty close to the ship. If you dont have a dredger and you need to ship one there we would have wait much more time

Knowing nothing about it, would it be safe to assume that the Suez Canal would always have a dredger around? Or is that not how that works?

Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by blfr »

geoduck14 wrote: post #34
throw0101a wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> imo=9811000 I find it neat? strange? that IMO numbers have checksums: > An IMO number is made of the three letters "IMO" followed by a seven-digit number. This consists of a six-digit sequential unique number followed by a check digit. The integrity of an IMO number can be verified using its check digit. This is done by multiplying each of the first six digits by a factor of 2 to 7 corresponding to their position f…

Was this comment intended for a different thread?

Probably not. The site linked uses imo numbers for ship ids.

Re: Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

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Post by mrfusion »

bnralt wrote: post #33

It's worth looking at the discussion of the ship just three days ago on Hacker News[1]. A lot of what people thought was true (that it would be stuck there for weeks, being dismissive of using tugboats to pull it out) didn't pan out as expected. Just a reminder that we should always take what we read with a grain of salt, and that it's fine to reserve judgement and see what will actually happen after the initial medi…

The media seems to exaggerate problems...
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