Associated Press
A skyscraper-sized container ship has become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway, officials said Wednesday, threatening to disrupt a global shipping system already strained by the coronavirus pandemic.
The MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, ran aground Tuesday in the narrow, man-made canal dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula. Images showed the ship’s bow was touching the eastern wall, while its stern looked lodged against the western wall. More
It’s just an accident. OK everybody, let’s move along now.
My first thought.
https://youtu.be/IGiQOCX9UbM
Uh, my wife was driving the boat that day and trying to parallel park. I usually don’t encourage her to try that even in the Indian Ocean – much less the Suez Canal. Sorry.
@answerman
Perfect. LOL
What can’t the wind do? It can cause a ship to ram a ferry. It can turn a cargo ship sideways and lodge it in a canal, and the wind can blow Joey Biden up the stairs.
A case of progress being the cork in the rectum of progress?
I hate when my canal gets blocked by a giant ship.
I’m surprised the water is so clear considering it flows through a SHITHOLE!
What else can they do to drive the price of oil up?
(They sunk ships to block the canal during the 6 day war in 1967)
The article sez the name of the ship is “Ever Given”, but the picture (and the caption) clearly show that it is “Evergreen”
Why for, How come, WTF???
^^^
from the parallel universe-
“…”Evergreen” is the well known Secret Service code word for former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…”
there’s a lot of coincidences with ships’ names and ID’s in this debacle
not too different than the patent numbers (0606060) and names of catalysts (luciferin) involved in the wuhan debacle.
probably just coincidence, but creepy, regardless
Bullshit alarm is flashing rapidly.
Capn’ had somethin’ on his mind according to his logged route just prior to entering the canal.
https://preview.redd.it/a5pdwk1euvo61.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=9f1d9e9c25d0fab68325ce9b7b1577a64f35a1b6
Was this just a case of piss poor SEMEN ship?
I’m guessing the skipper was from some turd-world country. I’ve seen the way they drive.
The weather started getting rough, the ….. oh, never mind.
My boat was part of a convoy of military warships heading south through the Suez Canal in 2003 when one of the cargo ships ahead of us ran aground. Everything came to a halt for roughly 3 hours. Our convoy maintained station keeping in the Greater Bitter Lake. Once the grounding had been cleared, everything started moving both north and south again. I’m sure it happens quite often, though not fully perpendicular like in this instance.
Chasten, what is your take on a huge thing like that blocking an important channel?
So sad that this will not be seen…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/25/cargo-ship-draws-phallic-shape-route-wedged-suez-canal/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20210325
And then he sees that Burr beat him to it…
TRF: Evergreen is the name of the shipping company, and it is painted on the side of all their ships in huge letters for high visibility at a distance.
All their ships have Ever as part of the name, and likely most if not all have a G-word as the second part of the name. The ship’s actual name will be found on the stern of the ship – and in many cases on the bow as well.