Suez Canal blocked by container ship 36

[verymadmac]

It might not be an engineering issue that started it, but I bet is going to change a few specifications.
BBC piece here Link



It looks like the bow is hard aground, refloating will be an interesting exercise given the time pressure.



Canal profile is here

https://www.suezcanal.gov.eg/English/About/SuezCanal/Pages/CanalCharacteristics.aspx

 

[FacEngrPE]

After pushing into this much sand I will be really surprised if the bulbous bow is not a bit crumpled. It may look a bit like a battering ram, but it is really just designed for hydraulic loading. However as long as watertight integrity to the rest of the ship is not compromised, once the ship is floating, damage to the bow will not hinder it's ability to get to a location where repairs can be performed. As large as this ship is, there are very few locations having drydocks where this repair could be performed. It is likely that at least part of the repair will be performed with the ship afloat, ballasted to get the bow as high out of the water as is safe (from a stability standpoint).

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

The Dane is saying Netherlands or Japan is about the only place they can get it into dry dock.

 

[LittleInch]

Latest report on the news is that the wind has blown it back across the channel again!

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[Alistair_Heaton]

It must be hellish trying to control something that size in the wind.

Suez is showing Northerly at 17 knts.

Which even for a Scotsman is a reasonabl breeze.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

And the AIS is showing it now mid Channel pointing north...

And now underway doing 4 knts.

Be interesting to see the state of it's bow.

 

[thebard3]

Twitter feed showing it's free and moving now.

https://twitter.com/rafsanchez/status/1376520457420177411

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[LittleInch]

Seems to be moving now ok.

Wonder if they'll ever let it back in again....

The canal navigation document is interesting in that in that section the dredged width to 22.5m is only 137m wide. It gets much bigger elsewhere, but give this thing is 60m wide, it shows you how little room there is to manoeuvre. Also it gives the convoy speed at 16km/hr - about 8.5 knots so if was doing 13kts at the time of the grounding it was going much faster than it should have been.

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[Alistair_Heaton]

The speed is maybe explained by the recovery from bank effect requiring full power to give rudder authority.

 

[TugboatEng]

Well, they did it.

Alistair, modern ships are all double bottomed but only tankers are double hulled.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

Save others googling the difference

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_hull

Thanks for info couldn't work out what it had.

 

[RedSnake]

BR A

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[waross]

Re the speed:
There was a report that the following ship realized that the Ever Given was in trouble and was slowing even before the 'Given hit the bank.
Apparently the second ship following was not as quick to react and collided with the following ship.
Ships don't pass in the canal, and the 'Given was not overtaking ships.
The speed was most likely the normal traffic speed on that day.


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[dik]

I assume the damage is slight... will it travel to the next port/destination and do an inspection.

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

Seems Craig the skipper on the Denver the boat behind is due a fortune by everyone it was a swearing match on the bridge when he took control off the pilot. I doubt anything will be made public on what happened.

It can't be that badly damaged as its on its own and still routed the Rotterdam which is where the dry dock is.

 

[RedSnake]

One hour ago it was still waiting in the Great bitter lake.
I guess they are doing an first inspection there.
And also letting the waiting ships pass before letting the Ever Given continuing to the Mediterranean.
Especially if there still is strong winds.

Best Regards A

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[JohnRBaker]

Is the restart of the passage of ships going to be based on the order that they arrived. I know that the ships already in the channel will be given priority, but what about the ones that have been backing-up in the estuary? Will there be some attempt to prioritize which ships are given the go-ahead? What I'm thinking of are the ships hauling livestock, and maybe even some whose owners have more influence with the people running the canal than others.

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[Alistair_Heaton]

if its anything like my industry there will be zero logic.

They will have all been given a slot time and they will be taken in that order.

Although I am pretty sure they will be a market for bribes and buying slots

Animals suffering or food going off will not enter into the equation it will just be a insurance claim.

 

[RedSnake]

Right now it seems they are taking trough 5-6 livestock ships then comes 6-10 cargo ships and after that 8-10 chemical/oil ships.
Most of the livestock ships are going to Jordan and Egypt and Saudi.
Money? no money? who knows ;-)

BR A

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Albert Einstein

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

The Dane has just updated.

Most of us could retire on what he has just earned.

Brute force and screw it the hull is already written off and if we can shift it inside 7 days we make an utter fortune won out.

They have done some major damage to the tugs and pull points on the boat. But the hull is sound which has surprised everyone they expect it to self power to Rotterdam then it might not even need dry dock.

They are all off to Cyprus to get very drunk the brother that I work with has been told to work out real estate investments in the Baltics.

 

[LittleInch]

Starting with southbound clearing the bittern lakes and feeding the lakes with another batch.

The EG is at anchor in the bittern lakes.

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