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It appears the same ship was in another incident a bit over a year ago.


"According to initial reports, the steering gear should have failed. But that was later withdrawn. A machine failure can also be used as an explanation. However, there are many indications of unforeseen weather conditions."

Same story, different day. Perhaps the class does have a disfuncrional steering gear. Admitting a faulty gear would require shutting down the entire class until the condition can be repaired.
 
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AIS displays heading so the degree will fluctuate based on position error when the ship is not moving.
 
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The following is pure speculation: An interesting thought, Alistair's video shows the grounding followed by the controlled stop of the Maersk Denver followed by the Asia Rose 3 careening out of control into the Denver. There is much talk about the Suez Canal adopting the Russian GLONASS system for satellite positioning. The Denver is a USA flagged ship and experienced no difficulties while two other ships did during the sand storm. Perhaps the GLONASS system has another outage that they seem prone to.
 
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Would have thought that they carry all the systems we certainly do on aircraft. Even my Nokia phone has all of them.

Reports are coming that they have managed to unstick the stern and pull it round into deeper water.

The Danish brother hasn't sent an update today.
 
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Oh and the Denver is skippered by a guy called Craig and apparently he spotted the poo was about to hit the fan on the first corner and had overridden the pilot and started taking appropriate action. Which might explain the relatively controlled stop by it.

The Danish brother did say if it wasn't for the Denver it could have been alot worse.

The pilot/ Egyptian transit crew that was on board evergreen had a not very good reputation.

The radio chat I suspect would be interesting to hear. Don't have a clue what lingo it's done in or if the Rose knew something was developing ahead.

The front end is still stuck just the back end has been pulled away from the bank. They are checking the prop and rudders and if they are ok can use them next high tide to try and get the front off.
 
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I don't trust anything being reported as I think there is a lot of coverup happening right now. I still believe the ship is very much stuck despite the stern being free. In fact, the stern was reported free days ago. I believe the truth is that the front 1/3+ of the ship is hard around and the forepeak and thruster rooms are both flooded. They may have moved the stern a few feet today but that was merely theatrical, it was already free.
 
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I also presume that most of the public releases are face saving BS.

The brother hasn't mentioned any flooding. And haven't seen anything to indicate huge volumes of water being pumped out.

Do modern container ships have double hulls or is that only tanker's?
 
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Recent report suggest that it may be sitting on a rock. If so, there may well be holed compartments.
Is it free?
I'll wait for pictures.

Bill
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Not just a good idea;
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There is definitely a rock involved.

Any luck once the rudder and props are checked out they can drag it backwards.

I don't think the actually care if they do hole it while extracting it or damage anything else. As long as they can get it out the canal out the way.

 
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Next high tide is at 11:42am local

Current time is 09:04

They are going to give it another shot then apparently.

Currently ballasting to the rear to try and lift the nose up.
 
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Looks like it's parked on the shallow side.

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Ever Given still in place, a bit of rotation off of the west bank. Tugs are working. March 29 7:46 GMT
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From reccy mech experience you usually try and pull things out the same way as they went in.

Maybe they got it swinging then angled it for the path it went in at or least suction.

Or give enough water behind for the prop to bite.

I reckon you right though and it's sitting on top of a big rock. Wouldn't have thought there are any nearby dry docks to fix it.
 
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