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Principle of maximal irony prediction: the ship rolls over while trying to free it and the suez gets littered with containers, takes even longer to clear it.
by dnautics 6y ago
Principle of maximal irony prediction: the ship rolls over while trying to free it and the suez gets littered with containers, takes even longer to clear it.
- WJW 6y agoThe 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 years back on the Elbe in Germany, in the end it took 12 (!) of the largest tugs they had to get it loose.
- em-bee 6y agodo you mean this case? https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/frachter-rammt-faehre-knapp-an-der-katastrophe-vorbei-32016794 https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/frachter-rammt-faehre-knapp-an-d... that was the very same ship EDIT: no, the incident needing 12 tugs was a different ship. see comment below.
- Forge36 6y agoThis gave me a good laugh.
- wussboy 6y agoOh my god who is driving this thing?
- hyperbovine 6y agoWhen the wind picks up, nobody, which seems to be the problem.
- nullsense 6y agoReminds me of this which happened last year: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/truck-crash-causes-havoc-on-aucklands-harbour-bridge/OBKM7LB3PG44BOKA6UNQG3YY7E/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/truck-crash-causes-havoc-on-au... Freak gust of wind tipped a truck over on a major bridge taking out a support beam. Took weeks to fix and jammed up traffic really bad. Shit happens.
- RupertEisenhart 6y agoThats.. almost literally unbelievable. I almost want to suspect that that's a code name? For any sufficiently large ship that blocks a major waterway? Incredible.
- Anther 6y agoPerhaps Uncle Albert from Only Fools and Horses is driving this one.
- BatFastard 6y agoVery strange that it was the same ship, very strange!
- sliken 6y agoI don't read German, but I can find reports of the same SIZE chip getting stuck on the Elbe and requiring 12 tugs to free it. The ship was called the CSCL Indian Ocean.
- mzs 6y agoyep, thanks >On February 3, 2016 CSCL Indian Ocean grounded in the River Elbe, while approaching Hamburg, Germany. Her rudder controls were reported to have malfunctioned. It took almost a week to free her from the sandbank, because she grounded at high-tide. Her fuel was unloaded, and she was finally freed, February 9, six days later, during the next spring tide. Twelve tugboats were required to assist in freeing her. Two dredgers had helped cut away at the sandbank, near the grounding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSCL_Indian_Ocean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSCL_Indian_Ocean
- tim333 6y agoSounds quite similar. This one also grounded at a high tide but a higher one is coming.
- kmonsen 6y agoIs that ship abnormally large or something or is this just a super wild coincidence?
- bolasanibk 6y agoIt is one of the largest container ships in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...
- Sebb767 6y agoWhy are all these within a few cm of 400m? Is there something special about this length?
- userbinator 6y agoFrom the article: Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait also restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them
- culturestate 6y agoThere are limits to how big a ship can be and still transit a specific route, usually defined by the radius of curves in a canal or the length of a lock. In this case, 400m is the max length required for the Suez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suezmax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suezmax)
- doublesocket 6y agoAnd again a strong wind was blamed. Maybe there's a limit to how big these ships can be built?
- em-bee 6y agothe problem was the slow speed. i think even a small ship gets pushed by the wind at slow speeds. however a small ship can speed up faster, and it doesn't cause as much damage if it does crash into something.
- agotterer 6y agoI’ve always wondered what something like this costs and who is responsible for paying the bill?
- woutr_be 6y agoA bit off topic, but anyone who ever played SnowRunner or MudRunner can probably relate. Quite often when you try to rescue a truck, you flip it over, and now require another truck with a crane to come over and load the cargo again.