What would happen if you tried to sail a cargo ship through the Suez Canal sideways?

[FiatLux]

This

[FiatLux]

And it would result in a complete shutdown of international shipping like this...

[Diego in Seattle]

Notice the country on the lower side of the eastern entrance...

It must be Christmas time for the pirates....

[Softball Bat]

The day "fucked sideways" became a reality.

[FiatLux]

Did the captain do it on purpose?



A Cargo Ship Drew a Giant Dick Pic in the Ocean Then Got Stuck in the Suez Canal

[Innocent Bystander]

Did the captain do it on purpose?



A Cargo Ship Drew a Giant Dick Pic in the Ocean Then Got Stuck in the Suez Canal

Yes, the Captain did it on purpose.

It was a message for someone, like the Zodiac killer's written taunts. The ship itself is a distraction.

What is that ship distracting us from?

[Softball Bat]

No timetable given for extricating the vessel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/2 ... suez-canal









Stuck as hell!

Stuck, stuck, stuck...








Well I don't know why I came here tonight.
I've got the feeling that something ain't right...

[Diego in Seattle]

This ship is blocking all vessels from passing?

I hearby christian this ship the "U.S.S. Mitch McConnell."

[Softball Bat]

I hearby christian

I hearby christian
































What did the deaf man say after a visit from the faith healer?

[FiatLux]

No timetable given for extricating the vessel.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/2 ... suez-canal

What would be the boat equivalent or swerving your car to avoid a squirrel?

[smackaholic]

Watched a video where some dude broke down what happened.

Surprised it doesn't happen more often. These cargo ships are so big and stack conex boxws so high, they make pretty damn good sails.

Time to start building these things with stronger bow thrusters, maybe more of a keel so they track better.

Might also be a good idea to line the sides, so that when a ship does this, it just rubs along the side rather than get stuffed into the soft sand bank.

[smackaholic]

Might also be a good idea to widen it to the point that it is wider than the largest ship is long. That way it would just swing around.

[Dinsdale]

These cargo ships are so big and stack conex boxws so high, they make pretty damn good sails.

Uhm... inertia and stuff? A 500 million pound mass is just whipping all over the place.

maybe more of a keel so they track better.

Wow. I'll go with three places -- the Persian Gulf, the Hudson River, and my local gig, the Columbia. These are all 40 feet or less, and it's a problem maintaining that depth. In the Columbia, on a neap tide, the keel is 3 feet from the bottom... pretty sure that's how the Hudson rolls.

In short -- dumb take.

Might also be a good idea to line the sides, so that when a ship does this, it just rubs along the side rather than get stuffed into the soft sand bank.

The last two tidbits from you were pretty bad. I don't even know how to respond to this one.

[smackaholic]

These cargo ships are so big and stack conex boxws so high, they make pretty damn good sails.

Uhm... inertia and stuff? A 500 million pound mass is just whipping all over the place.

maybe more of a keel so they track better.

Wow. I'll go with three places -- the Persian Gulf, the Hudson River, and my local gig, the Columbia. These are all 40 feet or less, and it's a problem maintaining that depth. In the Columbia, on a neap tide, the keel is 3 feet from the bottom... pretty sure that's how the Hudson rolls.

In short -- dumb take.

Might also be a good idea to line the sides, so that when a ship does this, it just rubs along the side rather than get stuffed into the soft sand bank.

The last two tidbits from you were pretty bad. I don't even know how to respond to this one.

Are you saying that strong winds weren't a factor? Of course they were.

Regarding keels, they are the things that keep a ship underway, tracking straight. One solution is more keels. Some sail boats use 2 and even 3. Although in those cases it is primarily to make a boat that will stay upright when grounded in places that have huge tide swings. Another Idea could be some sort of swing keel system. But that would be big $$$$$ and take away from capacity.

In the end, I think the solution is pretty simple. You need to make the fukking thing wider than the ships are long.

[Softball Bat]

In the end, I think the solution is pretty simple. You need to make the fukking thing wider than the ships are long.

It reminded me of bumper cars.

You know, when the lone 'tard somehow gets his rig wedged in between a couple other cars and a wall -- and he can't move. Just glued there.

Dude sits there with a dumb look on his face for the entire ride, twisting the steering wheel back-and-forth and nothing happens.

The buzzer goes off, 'tard flops out of his car and slinks away.



pwnt!

[Mikey]

In the end, I think the solution is pretty simple. You need to make the fukking thing wider than the ships are long.

Some strange logic here.

The canal was there first. Maybe they should make the ships small enough to travel safely through the canal. That might be easier than digging what would essentially be a new parallel canal while keeping the existing one operating. Do you have any idea of what the scale of such a project would be?

Don't you think that the size of the smallest canal or river they might have to traverse is already a limiting factor (maybe the main limiting factor) on the size of the vessels they're building? Make the canal bigger and they'll just make the ships bigger, unless you put a limit on what's allowed to pass through.

[Wolfman]

I see all those containers and imagine all the crap that is inside on its way to the western world. One time a container of rubber ducks got loose and broke open. They were later found in places all over the world. Gave oceanographers a good look at how world wide currents flow.