Navigation Closure Notice. Suez Canal

[peterboat]

Its a big lump of metal to have stuck there for a day!

[ditchcrawler]

Called Evergreen, are they electrical or hydrogen powered?

[Jen-in-Wellies]

1 minute ago, ditchcrawler said:

Called Evergreen, are they electrical or hydrogen powered?

Greenwash powered. The cheapest way for a company to go Eco.

[NB Alnwick]

220,000 Tonnes! Nice target for a U-Boot . . .

The second world war's most successful submarine commander, Otto Kretschmer ('Silent Otto') sank over 40 ships to achieve a tonnage of that order.

[Midnight]

To whom it may concern at the Suez Canal company

For foook sake don't ask CaRT to help. All they'll say is issue a stoppage notice and leave it there for at least 3 months

[nbfiresprite]

2 hours ago, Midnight said:

To whom it may concern at the Suez Canal company

For foook sake don't ask CaRT to help. All they'll say is issue a stoppage notice and leave it there for at least 3 months

CRT are aready on the Job,

 

[Paringa]

And he has a bow thruster...

[Mike Todd]

3 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:

Once got wedged like that on the Leeds and Liverpool in high winds, got another boat to nudge me back in line.

 

Maybe the following ship could do the same......???

Not just wind: we once came across - and helped - a boat below Sileby Lock on the Soar. There was plenty of fresh and a boat coming down had tied the bow to a bollard and was trying to hold it by the stern line. However, the flow from the weir caught the stern and pulled out and the boaters were unable to old it. As a result the boat swung right around until it was held with a very tight bow rope (now closest to the lock), now blocking the navigation. The shape of the bow and shortness of the rope meant that it was impossible to untie and they ended up having to saw through with a bread knife!

[davem399]

1 minute ago, Paringa said:

And he has a bow thruster...

Or two.

[Alan de Enfield]

2 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

Called Evergreen, are they electrical or hydrogen powered?

 

It appears to say "Ever Given" on the bows, maybe the company is called Ever Green.

 

Even the Independant seems to think so :

 

Suez canal news live: Latest news as Ever Given ‘partially re-floated’ | The Independent

 

The Ever Given container ship has been partially re-floated after running aground in the Suez Canal and blocking traffic for hours, according to authorities.

Edited March 24, 2021 by Alan de Enfield

[peterboat]

Evergreen is the Taiwanese company that owns it I think?

[matty40s]

15 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:

CRT are aready on the Job,

 

Have you got any BW AWARE yellow tape mate?

[davem399]

I read on another site that the ship blacked out before getting wedged across the canal.

[Alan de Enfield]

3 minutes ago, davem399 said:

I read on another site that the ship blacked out before getting wedged across the canal.

 

 

Did someone thump it ?, or was it the result of an overdose ?

[PeterScott]

55 minutes ago, nbfiresprite said:

CRT are aready on the Job,

 

"You'd think they'd know they couldn't wind there" (swmbo)

With 10% of world trade held up, three blokes and a digger seems a modest response.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

Will the canal be reopened in time for the "boating season"?

[ditchcrawler]

RCR have been over and its all sorted

[NB Alnwick]

I have heard stories of the Egyptian Pilots being asleep on the job - it ought to take more than a sand storm and 30 mph wind to turn such a large vessel 90 degrees.

No doubt we shall learn in due course what really happened . . .

[Jo_]

Could they not drop a line to one of the onlookers and maybe ask them to walk along the bank a little giving a bit of a pull and putting the engine in reverse ......

[cuthound]

They would have been OK if only they hadn't lost the quant pole to overhanging trees... ?

[doratheexplorer]

23 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

RCR have been over and its all sorted

I imagine they just ran a bit of water down and flushed it out?

[PeterScott]

Canal Closed.

Alternative Route Available

 

 

[blackrose]

Sounds like a case a bad seamanship.

[Tacet]

18 hours ago, Jennifer McM said:

https://www.cityam.com/suez-canal-blocked-with-mega-container-ship/#:~:text=The Suez Canal has been,wide Ever Given cargo ship.

 

Blocked both lanes, it's going to be late docking in Rotterdam! 

I think that is the problem.  Ships only pass in one direction at a time; if it was two way traffic, a ship coming the other way could give it a smart bang on the stern quarter.

 

 

 

[Tracy D'arth]

There is a problem with this silly canal, its got no locks to flush the boats out. The Panama Canal has a much better arrangement locks and pull trains.

 

Why did they not build it with a slope?  Ferdinand De Lesseps French, phwep! what do they know about canals, its a ditch in the dessert!