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Only around ~75 incidents reported this decade [0], so it's fairly uncommon. Definitely getting more attention now because of last time though.

[0] (slightly outdated) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/suez-bloc...

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75/decade == 1 every 7 weeks

Sounds pretty common, or as the grandparent said, "tens of minor incidents that...didn't get reported on"

when put into perspective that is pretty frequent, ~0.02% chance per ship.

Put differently, we had an average of 7.5 incidents per year in the last decade.

ya, I wonder what the risk is of getting stuck long term like earlier this year. According to the wikipedia page it looks like it has only happened a few times in history.

Given that MV Ever Given drew a penis and balls outside the canal[1] before entering, I suspect there is a chance the jam was not an accident.

1. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_605c2e44c5b67ad3871c9afe

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