If you've not noticed, someone had a very bad day and got out of shape had one of those "which way was port again" moments, headed into the worlds slowest ever skid and parked a 220,000 tonne 400m long container ship across the Suez canal .. blocking it entirely and stopping hundreds of ships in both directions.
They've managed to jiggle it round so there's now 100m clearance behind it by jolting it away from where it was stuck.
Sadly it seems it's still pretty stuck and they've said "it won't be a piece of cake" to remove it and still might have to off load containers.
Anyone got any good ideas ?
I don't see why they don't "Wake" it ?
Get some other ships, of reasonable size ! or two or three in a line spaced at a calculated amount to obtain the best results .. not so big that they crash or get stuck themselves ..
At high tide, stick it in reverse with it's flotilla of tugs pulling, then drive our new ships towards and past it, approaching from the bow.
Being a canal, as each boat arrives it will be pushing water and raising the water level. Which in turn will lift the Ever Stuck allowing it to drive/pull itself backwards from where it's stuck ?
You could even do it with just one large ship and not even need to pass.
Calculate how far you need to stop. Drive at My Sticky as fast as you can displacing thousands of tonnes of water. Hit the brakes at 1000m-5000m-10000m whatever. Your bow wave of displaced water will continue including the water your displacing with your own mass, raising the water level which will arrive at ever stuck, giving it buoyancy and off we go !
They've managed to jiggle it round so there's now 100m clearance behind it by jolting it away from where it was stuck.
Sadly it seems it's still pretty stuck and they've said "it won't be a piece of cake" to remove it and still might have to off load containers.
Anyone got any good ideas ?
I don't see why they don't "Wake" it ?
Get some other ships, of reasonable size ! or two or three in a line spaced at a calculated amount to obtain the best results .. not so big that they crash or get stuck themselves ..
At high tide, stick it in reverse with it's flotilla of tugs pulling, then drive our new ships towards and past it, approaching from the bow.
Being a canal, as each boat arrives it will be pushing water and raising the water level. Which in turn will lift the Ever Stuck allowing it to drive/pull itself backwards from where it's stuck ?
You could even do it with just one large ship and not even need to pass.
Calculate how far you need to stop. Drive at My Sticky as fast as you can displacing thousands of tonnes of water. Hit the brakes at 1000m-5000m-10000m whatever. Your bow wave of displaced water will continue including the water your displacing with your own mass, raising the water level which will arrive at ever stuck, giving it buoyancy and off we go !
