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Another ship stuck in Suez Canal – Affinity V

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Looks like it's moving again, at 5 knots, a kilometer or so downstream, and no longer surrounded by tugs. Whew!

The traffic map shows a traffic jam behind it, but that should clear now.

No, it isn't moving. The ship was stuck where the other ships were moving.

I'm not sure I follow. It's has been clear of the Suez Canal for about 3 1/2 hours before you posted? https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:4311160/zoo...

It got stuck between 17:15UTC and 22:00UTC, and had completely left the canal by 01:55UTC the next day.

Yea. It's moved off into the Gulf of Suez now.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:43...

And at anchor, out of the traffic pattern, probably for damage inspection. Good. We do not need a Suez Canal blockage right now.

Are we just hearing about this kind of stuff more or is my prediction that we eventually won’t have enough competent people to run all the machines coming true?

Or maybe the water level in suez canal has depleted enough that it no longer allows smooth pass through of these giant ships.

Unlike the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal is at sea level. If anything, rising sea levels have increased the water level in the canal.

The Ever Given was stranded not because of depth, but because it got caught by strong winds, plowing the front into the side of the canal.

There's a simpler explanation that the Ever Given was a rare event that primed news to be more interested in more minor blockages. When the Suez Canal was blocked in 2021, the news story had days to escalate as the number of ships waiting increased and the impact on global shipping became important.

In contrast, this blockage was over in ~6 hours and would have never been a top of HN news story if not for journalists and viewers being interested in the blockage happening again.

Knowing that the Suez connects two oceans without locks, where did the water go in your imagined scenario?

Onto snowpack and glaciers obviously. If this keeps up all of Canada could be under the ice, making the supply chain issues even worse.

If you want to survive the coming winter, buy safe assets like crypto. Fortune favors the bold.

Slow down, slow down, I’m trying to take notes here.

BRB shorting Tim Hortons.

Snowpiercer and Battlefield 2142 can't both be wrong about global cooling.

The suez canal is at sea level.

>Are we just hearing about this kind of stuff more

This. The one ship that was such a big deal means people are going to pay more attention to routine things for a while.

Plus ships are getting bigger and the canal needs to be maintained a bit more to accommodate them.

Plus apparently some of the pilots are morons, but this is more perfectly normal incompetent management than lack of qualified people.

I'm more inclined to agree with your latter conclusion.

We really are running out of people

It's almost like millions of people with valuable knowledge and skills were killed off or disabled by some kind of global pandemic or something.

Go figure!

A large oil tanker appears to be stuck in the Suez Canal. Mentioned in Jalopnik. Current tracking data shows it straightened out, surrounded by tugs, and not moving.

Twitter is saying it ran aground in the navigation channel: https://twitter.com/AtyEsmail/status/1565103702649733120

Considering how much the world depends on global shipping. This one point of failure is terrifying. Literally millions of people could experience hardship, rising prices, shortages and even death if this place stays blocked.

Prepping still looks like a good idea. Should shortages and conflict develop this coming winter.

If it were that terrifying, someone would build a second channel or other infrastructure to move containers between both seas.

Or a vehicle that could airlift it out of the canal!

Sir, may I humbly suggest that you vastly underestimate the weight of a fully loaded freighter? There's a reason airships do not, have not, and probably will not ever replace ocean-going vessels... nor will helicopters or cargo planes.

It was made in jest, because while building a second channel is potentially feasible (is it even geographically possible in that region?), it seems as fanciful as building a flying freighter-lifter.

The heaviest aircraft ever built, the AN-225, had a max takeoff weight of 1.4 million pounds. The cargo alone on a container ship is hundreds of millions of pounds.

Nature did that for us...it's called the Cape of Good Hope! It just takes a lot longer...

We’ve been there, done that, and AFAWK nobody died or even experienced serious hardship (other than those responsible)…

It was annoying, and costly, but nothing more.

I’m not seeing the ship. Can someone post its name and maybe I’d number?

Waiting a update on this website https://istheshipstillstuck.com/

It's gone.

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