Smit Salvage's current plan is to dredge around the bow and pump out enough fuel to make the ship float higher.[1] More equipment will be brought in.
[1] https://www.tellerreport.com/business/2021-03-26-the-dredgin...
Is that ship still stuck?
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Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#762The canal, for how important it is, sure hasn't seen much in the way of investment, it seems.
They could have two lanes of concrete-lined canal I'm sure, but it's just a ditch with a tiny excavator.
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#763You can even text now to get its status
https://twitter.com/kelleyrobinson/status/137519912243366298...
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#764How about hard fixing heavy duty winches on the ship itself, attach the other end of cables to the shore and make the ship to pull itself in unstuck direction gradually?
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#765Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a really good example of how terrible people are at judging scale. Some numbers getting thrown around downthread say there's something to the tune of 10,000 40ft containers. To give a bit of a sense of perspective, that's like trying to clear out some 200 football fields worth of semi-trucks, except they are stacked, packed full of stuff, and have no gas or wheels. And all of them are perched atop a ship that…
For moving containers off the best bet would probably be heavy lift choppers, the ship is large enough you could have several working on it at once and then just drop them off nearby to be loaded onto barges or something. A huge undertaking but it any weight taken off the Evergreen is less digging they have to do and the time is so expensive. Also it's less middle of nowhere there's a pretty large airbase nearby it l…
I suspect something more like they drop the containers in the desert. The value of the goods is irrelevant in the face of cutting off Europe from Asia.
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#766Who designed this critical piece of infrastructure with a single point of failure?
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#767Earlier quoted context omitted.
Egypt is bleeding money right now. It earned roughly USD 15,360,000.00/day from Suez passage fees in 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Authority#Revenues
Wow, costs $300K to transit through the canal per ship by fee alone? That is capital intensive. It's amazing that more ships are not simply sailing around Africa.
The ship can hold 20,000 containers so the fee is only $15 each. By comparison, it costs $16 to take the Lincoln Tunnel into Manhattan.
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#768Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would it not be easier to use Chinooks to remove cargo ?
Empty weight of a 40ft ISO is around 3,700kg Max weight of a container loaded is around 30,000kg Max payload of a Chinook around 11,000 kg near sea level at not high temp. (correct my number here from the wrong version of the Chinook...older versions were 4,500kg) So, if your container is a a quarter full, sure
Two CH-53E Super Stallions should be able to handle such a container, then (max external payload capacity is about 16,000kg). Any American aircraft carriers nearby?
And this assumes that the containers are indeed loaded to their full weight capacity.
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#769I 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…
I wonder, could you liquify the soil around the buried part of the ship by pumping air into the surrounding areas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction
Just use some thumpers and Shai-Hulud will save the day.
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#770Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Dutch national news had an interview with the CEO of Boskalis, which is the company hired to unlodge the ship. They have one team on the ground atm and another building computer simulations exactly to calculate how much oil and ballast they can pump out (to lighten the ship up and make it easier to tow) without endangering the stability of the ship. Apparently they had a similar case (same size of ship) a few yea…
I’ve always wondered what something like this costs and who is responsible for paying the bill?
You'd think there would be liability insurance like with cars.