Originally published at: Is that ship still stuck? | Boing Boing
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Maybe the engineers should try using ky jelly or astroglide to get it unstuck
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maybe a history of single purpose websites would be in order here.
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Yes.
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As it turns out, moving millions of metric tons of dead weight has proven difficult.
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“There’s an app for that!”
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Dick move.
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I ordered a whole bunch of these to help out but for some reason, it’s saying my delivery is delayed…
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how long could it possibly take to get 500 tugboats into place?
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And just to make it so “2020”… Q is claiming hillary is behind the blockade because human trafficking.
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I honestly haven’t read anything about it, but I’d think a nonstop convoy of helicopters picking up connexes off the top and carrying them to port while also offloading any excess fuel safely into a fuel ship would allow it to slowly rise in the water. Maybe also a barge alongside with an offloading arm. Along with the excavation (go little digger!) and tugboats on both sides, it seems like it should be a measurable time until it’s loose. If utterly necessary, open a hole in the side to offload more ballast/cargo/fuel/whatever.
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There’s some Good Hope it will only be 10 days late.
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No, don’t!!!
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I mean, it’s a boat, people. How much could it weigh? Ten tons?
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Kids have some ideas for getting it unstuck.
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It would apparently take weeks to get the cranes and necessary stuff from the nearest port and take off the containers one by one. It can carry 20,000 containers and looks pretty fully loaded.
Not many helicopters available in the region that can carry full containers, and do you have ANY idea how many containers they have to remove to get this thing to float a few feet higher?
if the Ever Given has to be lightened to make it easier to dislodge, using cranes to remove enough containers could take weeks and the surrounding ships would need to leave and find longer alternative routes.
(From The Guardian)
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So, hahahaha. I thought you were kidding. Then I googled. FFS.
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Suez Canal? That’s in Egypt, right? Can’t the locals do something with levers? I mean, they claim to have built those pyramids; or, are they going to come clean, and call in their Alien contractors?
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We counting porn sites in this category?
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