This worries me. What if it becomes stuck for real?
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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#22This worries me. What if it becomes stuck for real?
Then they'll fix it. That's what engineers do. :)
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#23If you go to vesselfinder you can follow the drama in real-time! Seems it's still stuck: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000
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#25Classic DOS attack. Cui bono?
I don't think I'd ever considered prior to now how much more economic it would be to release "The one nuclear bomb [TerroristOrganisation] can afford to muster" in a shipping choke-point, rather than a city.
So, another thing to worry about :)
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#26Classic DOS attack. Cui bono?
There could be real values in faking a technical outage and then getting stuck.
I don't claim to understand the global shipping dynamics, but I do see that there's lots of frustrated ship crews with nowhere to go, because of the pandemic.
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#27According to the Twitter feed there is now a excavator trying to dig out the bow. It really shows off the scale as the excavator looks like a tiny toy next to the massive container ship.
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374468169784459267/pho...
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Loss of propulsion at the wrong time.
One post said that the ship was cutting off other ships, so possibly some reckless sailing as well.
It's cutting off other ships because when it lost power it drifted sideways and blocked the canal. It's now stuck in both embankments and the only vessels getting past are very flat submarines.
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#29Does anyone have some insight on how this could affect global supply chains, depending on how long the canal is blocked? It seems like it's been blocked for a day or so, and there's already a pretty big queue. I'd imagine that has to have some significant impacts already.
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#30I guess it won't be too hard to unjam it, but imagine how the world would change if it does get stuck, everyone would now have to go around Africa, probably boosting a few African economies. A bit like how a tiny bat (citation needed?) changed the course of the world for at least a year.
They would blow up or demolish it before that happens.