Do it Archimedes style!
A vast number of snatch blocks, lines, and many thousands of slave-equivalents. (Or course, with the ratios they’d need, they’d probably have to pull for miles to move the ship an inch.)
White people in the United States riot to get haircuts.[>
And
Egypt calls 2020’s bluff, opens 2600 year-old coffins. [>]
I think Capt. John W. Trimmer, author of How to Avoid Huge Ships, needs to write a companion work, How Not to Run Aground.
maybe they should employ a pilot… for the use of…
The thought occurs that if one were to apply some hauling action to the stern - while at the same time vacuum sucking sand from under the stuck portion of the front and bow in the proposed direction of travel, nature would take its course.
Not for nuthin’ but
We’ve all got our distinct failure modes.
Bid on the NFT of this page
The good ship isn’t called the Venus is it?
I think that was from a day ago. Boat is still stuck, alas.
Well played. This incident has temporarily ruined whole corners of the Internet for anyone who doesn’t enjoy armchair men who think they know anything about freeing a grounded 22,000 ton ship because they built a shed once and are pretty sure they know how cars work. The mansplaining has been turned up to 11 everywhere this story appears. We’re overdue for a bingo card at this point.
Nah, I am almost an old man but I am here just for the memes. But I admit It would be nice sitting there, drinking beer and chatting with people with crazy ideas.
Straight-leg trousers? Pffle! Obviously it would be cargo pants.
An unorthodox approach.
