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The entire situation is suspicious. How many ships go through that canal without issue? Would a ship that large have an incompetent operator to the point that a gust of wind would cause him to ram the edge like that?

Seems awfully convenient to escalate the shortages and stresses, particularly in the USA.

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I read the captain was going 13 knots and the limit for that area is 8 knots. Speed was likely a factor too.

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Oy Vey! What are you trying to say?

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I'm watching this idiot suggest all kinds of stuff like a giant backhoe to dredge. WTF, not one idea of using the water pumped under high pressure to blow the sand out from under to be carried by the current low down the canal. It's like fucking obvious to use water to erode the sand under the ship from back from the nose to the nose. Get a dozen with huge hoses and it should take a few days if the operators are good. ALso don't try to save cash but do upstream more but put some downsteam also.

Another thing, those tracks, if enough sand almost is done then drag the backend to rotate the ship so the force though not enough to should be used to break it combined with less sand and some othership or even another train connected to the nose pulling toward themselves but also moving forward on the tracks all the while pumping water from below to encouraging the sand to let go and move away.

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Came her to suggest the same basically. Undercutting with hydraulics is just common sense in that situation. Everything that guy proposed was retarded. Almost makes you think it’s an intended blockade of trade the way it is being handled.

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Yeah that was my first thought, second thought get a machine to catapult all the containers one at a time far onto the land. Also no matter how strong a wind pushing that ship ashore with it's and the cargo's mass struck me as unlikely. Break it in half and then have the tugs hook onto the containers, they're insured and besides, who gives a fuck about this embargo being forced.

I hope Russia steps in and either offers to remove the blockage or pushes all the food and other stuff the blockage is preventing and then laughs in their faces on undoing their forced price rise with a fake self inflicted situation. Just don't hit the fuel tanks. Hell make the storage containers free for whoever can get them out with their own heavy duty helicopter.

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Adding this comment with 0 knowledge about this type of situation, but why would you pull it with a boat and not just pull it from the other side of the canal on land?

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Came here for the brainlet comments about how every country is the USA and they should just airdrop heavy equipment from bombers to fix this issue in 2 days, was not disappointed.

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I saw also that they are concerned that if they don't offload the containers just right, it could lead to the ship being unstable and capsizing. Then we'd have an even bigger mess.

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This may be a dumb idea (please tell me if it is), but couldn't they use one or more of those helicopter cranes to lift containers off the deck and put them on the shore temporarily to lighten the load at the bow? It might take a little while, but would it work?