Ship porn

[spitfire]

Doh.

(Haven't checked authenticity on this one tbh).

 

[teuchter]

It seems that authenticity is not the only thing you haven't checked.

 

[spitfire]

It seems that authenticity is not the only thing you haven't checked.

 

[Winot]

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[mx wcfc]

I’ve twice helped narrow boats wedged like that across the Kennet in Reading. Once it involved about 8 passers by on the path pulling tug of war like on a rope attached to the bow. I’ll look for the photos later.

Found it!

Not quite a SuezMax container ship wedged in the Suez Canal, but.....

 

[Gromit]

Doh.

(Haven't checked authenticity on this one tbh).

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That boat has done me a favour. It’s put the price of oil barrels up and boosted my shares.

 

[planetgeli]

Fuck off Gromit.

 

[cupid_stunt]

That boat has done me a favour. It’s put the price of oil barrels up and boosted my shares.

I am not sure if you are serious, or more likely just trolling.

Whichever, the most appropriate response seems to be - fuck off Gromit.

 

[planetgeli]

Most definitely not unstuck.

Suez canal: Dutch and Japanese teams brought in to help free ship

Salvage teams from Netherlands and Japan called in to help refloat Ever Given, which is blocking canal

www.theguardian.com

The mission to unblock the Suez canal after a vast container ship became wedged has entered its third day, as pressure builds on authorities to get one of the world’s key trade arteries flowing again.

Efforts to refloat the 220,000-ton, 400-metre-long Ever Given resumed on Thursday after a brief overnight suspension,amid fears the operation could potentially take weeks if the vessel needs to be unloaded.



Peter Berdowski, the CEO of specialist dredging company Boskalis which has sent a crew to the scene, said data so far suggested “it is not really possible to pull it loose” and that it might need to be unloaded, a process that could take weeks.

 

[TopCat]

I keep laughing at this mishap. I am a bad person.

 

[LDC]

Imagine the economic disruption if something like this was done purposefully and more substantially.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Just booked a flight for an engineer to go out and assist, so it looks like it is well and truly stuck as he won't get to the site until tomorrow.

"Can you guess why I'm going Bahnhof?"

"Poor bit of parking?"

"Yeah, he parked the ship in a fucking dune!"

 

[TopCat]

Taking the containers off (20,000), removing the fuel and the oil, then dig, dredge and pull seems to be the chosen path. I can see them destabilising the ship and dropping thousands of containers into the canal.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Imagine the economic disruption if something like this was done purposefully and more substantially.

Zapp Brannigan (a traffic engineer) once outlined to me a way potential terrorists could easily bring the entire country to pretty much a standstill with minimal effort. It’s quite scary how fragile a lot of our infrastructure/logistics actually is.

 

[TopCat]

Imagine the economic disruption if something like this was done purposefully and more substantially.

I can’t see how it could be any more effective in blocking the canal than this present fuckup.

 

[LDC]

I can’t see how it could be any more effective in blocking the canal than this present fuckup.

Longevity of the blockage? Sink it. That'd take longer to clear.

 

[LDC]

Wonder what the depth of it is there?

 

[TopCat]

Longevity of the blockage? Sink it. That'd take longer to clear.

There is not enough water to sink it! It’s firmly wedged on the bottom.

 

[TopCat]

There is a v cut in the canal I think. So if it goes out of the central channel it’s beached. That this has happened and then getting wedged at both ends, well it must have required special skills.

 

[planetgeli]

Taking the containers off (20,000), removing the fuel and the oil, then dig, dredge and pull seems to be the chosen path. I can see them destabilising the ship and dropping thousands of containers into the canal.

Fingers crossed!

 

[TopCat]

Have they got hard standing nearby to site the containers? Bit desert like round there.

 

[LDC]

There is not enough water to sink it! It’s firmly wedged on the bottom.

The bottom near the shore as it were, rather than the bottom in the middle of the channel I assume? Anyway, I bet you it could be stuck there in a way that was much harder to clear!

 

[TopCat]

The bottom near the shore as it were, rather than the bottom in the middle of the channel I assume? Anyway, I bet you it could be stuck there in a way that was much harder to clear!

Give them a few days.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Have they got hard standing nearby to site the containers? Bit desert like round there.

The banks are just sand as far as I know, there’s pictures of a digger trying to free the bow. Considering the sheer scale of the lifting gear required at a dock that’s needed to get the containers off, how they’re planning on doing this is beyond me.

 

[existentialist]

The banks are just sand as far as I know, there’s pictures of a digger trying to free the bow. Considering the sheer scale of the lifting gear required at a dock that’s needed to get the containers off, how they’re planning on doing this is beyond me.

I imagine that the lads at Smit Tak are splicing mainbraces, polishing the golden rivet, and practising their hornpipes, even as we speak...

 

[kebabking]

Fo shizzle.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Have they got hard standing nearby to site the containers? Bit desert like round there.

a levitation wizard required, or a Jedi

 

[cupid_stunt]

Fo shizzle.

That digger just looks like a toy.

 

[existentialist]

That digger just looks like a toy.

It's the best example of the vastness of that ship I've seen so far...

 

[spitfire]

I can't get my head around the 220,000 tonnes figure.

That's a lot of sausages.