Ship porn

[pseudonarcissus]

Did you miss this?

He was successful a couple of weeks ago, I saw pictures in the papers

 

[nogojones]

 

[dessiato]

BBC News - Stranded Suez container ship reported freed

Suez Canal: Ever Given container ship shifted from shoreline

The Ever Given has been blocking one of the world's busiest trade routes for almost a week.

www.bbc.co.uk

Thats all I have at the moment

 

[skyscraper101]

Boat takes off

 

[Sprocket.]

It’s free apparently, but still needs a good check by divers and engineers to make sure it’s seaworthy and the engines, propeller and rudders are okay.

Stranded Suez container ship reported freed Ever Given: Stranded Suez container ship reported freed

 

[weltweit]

Good news .. It had apparently held up £6 billion worth of trade each day!

I wonder what was critical in getting it free? Possibly just finally enough tugs ..

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Good news .. It had apparently held up £6 billion worth of trade each day!

I wonder what was critical in getting it free? Possibly just finally enough tugs ..

It would be funny if they managed to get it on it's way only for it to get stuck again further up the canal.

 

[Sprocket.]

Good news .. It had apparently held up £6 billion worth of trade each day!

I wonder what was critical in getting it free? Possibly just finally enough tugs ..

It was one of the highest tides last night due to the Moon and Sun being in the perfect position to refloat the ship. Also assisted by plenty of tugboats.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It would be funny if they managed to get it on it's way only for it to get stuck again further up the canal.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Certainly looking better...

"The container ship began to float successfully after responding to the pulling maneuvers," said Osama Rabie, head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), in a phone interview with state TV. "Once the ship is withdrawn, we will resume navigation directly, and we will take it to the Bitter Lakes."

That seems appropriate in view of the chaos it has caused.

The ship has been mostly dislodged and crews plan to fully refloat it later on Monday, the SCA confirmed.

Video footage from the rescue operation show the stern, the back of the ship, dislodged from the bank and facing the canal after significant movement. The authorities will now keep the freed stern away from the bank as they work on pulling the front, or the bow, out.

Ever Given ship freed in the Suez Canal, authority confirms

The Ever Given container ship has been freed and is now floating, after being stranded in the Suez Canal for almost a week, authorities say, following an around-the-clock international effort to dislodge the massive vessel and reopen the global shipping lane.

edition.cnn.com

 

[TopCat]

I’m shocked and pleased.

 

[dessiato]

Good news .. It had apparently held up £6 billion worth of trade each day!

I wonder what was critical in getting it free? Possibly just finally enough tugs ..

One always needs enough tugs

 

[Winot]

One always needs enough tugs

To free the seamen?

 

[Indeliblelink]

boat traffic jam waiting for canal to open

 

[Supine]

It's only gone and got stuck in bowness

 

[TopCat]

“Don’t cheer too soon,” Peter Berdowski, CEO of Boskalis, the salvage firm hired to extract the Ever Given, told Dutch NPO Radio 1. “The good news is that the stern is free but we saw that as the simplest part of the job.”

 

[TopCat]

This could be disaster. It’s perched or wedged into and onto rocks at the front and free at the rear. What happens when the tide drops soon? Snap?

 

[bmd]

We've all been through this. Your loo = Suez Canal and that problematic turd you finally ejected from your weary bumhole = the container ship. Getting it out was the simplest part of the jobbie.

 

[TopCat]

We've all been through this. Your loo = Suez Canal and that problematic turd you finally ejected from your weary bumhole = the container ship. Getting it out was the simplest part of the jobbie.

Break up the ship with a giant loo brush?

 

[TopCat]

“The stern, which had been 4m from the shore, was now 102m clear, the Suez Canal Authority said, adding that the boat had been fully refloated.”

But the CEO of the salvage company involved in the rescue efforts told Dutch public radio that the operation was far from complete.
"We have movement, which is good news. But I wouldn't say it's a piece of cake now," Peter Berdowski said.
He explained that high-pressure water would be used to try and remove sand and clay from underneath the bow of the ship, but if that failed, then containers would have to be lifted in an operation that could take some time.
"The bow is still stuck rock-solid at the moment in the slightly sandy clay," he said.

 

[TopCat]

Fully refloated and stuck rock solid. Fab.

 

[kebabking]

Break up the ship with a giant loo brush?

I had to use a wire coat hanger to break one of mine up once.

#WhichIsNice

 

[TopCat]

Rock solid takes on a different meaning.

 

[TopCat]

I had to use a wire coat hanger to break one of mine up once.

#WhichIsNice

Blimey.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I had to use a wire coat hanger to break one of mine up once.

#WhichIsNice

Didn't one of the posters on here swear by having a dedicated poo knife?

 

[existentialist]

I had to use a wire coat hanger to break one of mine up once.

#WhichIsNice

One of the many advantages to bachelorhood is that any extravagantly laid cables can be allowed to take their time, pending a second flush.

There are two downsides to this: I have to remember to nip in and reflush if anyone comes to visit; and I am going to have to acquire new habits if my state of bechelor grace should ever come to an end.

How on earth did we end up on recalcitrant turds??

 

[existentialist]

Didn't one of the posters on here swear by having a dedicated poo knife?

It wasn't me, but I do have a 24" machete (that I don't use as a rule ), but which could be pressed into service in an emergency.

 

[kebabking]

How on earth did we end up on recalcitrant turds??

Because we're not allowed to talk about tits?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

One of the many advantages to bachelorhood is that any extravagantly laid cables can be allowed to take their time, pending a second flush.

Pouring warm water into the bowl and leaving it for ten minutes works well - it slithers down the u-bend then.

 

[Dogsauce]

Somewhere else , it was suggested a l Panama canal to lay some railway tracks and use chunky heavy diesels to pull the ship off.

You would expect me to thoroughly approve - now a pair of class 56 freight engines can handle a 4000 ton train of iron ore from Port Talbot to Llanwern (or they did) - now this ship weighs 200,000 tons or so - so that needs about 50+

Do they still have all those Class 60s laid up at Toton?