I've seen the "Let's just blow it up" take a few times now, and it doesn't seem feasible for obvious reasons. If you drop massive ordnance on that thing, it's

I've seen the "Let's just blow it up" take a few times now, and it doesn't seem feasible for obvious reasons. If you drop massive ordnance on that thing, it's going to spread debris everywhere. The canal is very shallow and narrow compared to the size of ships that traverse it. This pretty much guarantees a field of debris that will damage other ships if it isn't cleaned up. Cleaning it up will take far longer, and during that time the canal will not be usable. If you try a targeted approach, with relatively small explosives to break the ship into pieces, then you'll have huge sunken pieces that you have to move, which will be much harder than just spending the time and effort to dig out and tug away the intact ship. This is all way outside my area of expertise, so maybe I'm wrong. Still, I'll be surprised if blowing it up turns out to be the chosen solution.