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Ask HN: What would be your solution to dislodging the Suez boat?

2 points by Gustomaximus ↗ HN
I was thinking weld additional steel plates/rings at numerous points on the hull for a many lines to spread the load via a web of cables.

Attached winchers/dozers pulling back towards the angle it went in on a high tide. Seems the simplest and easiest materials to get in a hurry.

Consider placing cables under the front section attached to airbags. It would not lift it off the sand but may help with downward pressure on the pull back + the excavator work.

Also I seen if videos of people vibrate/aerate sand to make it have a liquid effect? If realistic, drive a bunch of pipes connected to pumps to again soften the sand to help as they pull it back. Not sure how realistic this last bit is so maybe keep digging manually is the better...

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tsjq
Reduce load : remove containers.

keep digging. Maybe use jets of water to speedup. Also Use explosives to speedup, if safe.

Use more tugs to push.

Use skycrane, seacrane etc to remove containers fast from that ship.

m463
Hmmm... raise the water, lower the sand, raise the ship, unload the heavy parts of the ship, make the water more dense. Blast a canal around the ship? cut the ship in half?
gremlinsinc
20 blackhawk helicopters (or however many is needed to lift it), fly it into more navigable waters. Maybe get the biggest ship there is on earth as well -- add a tow-line, then the helicopters only need to "ease pressure" and the tow will pull it back out of the canal.
yesenadam
A Black Hawk can lift about 4 tonnes. The ship weighs about 220,000 tonnes. So... 55,000 Black Hawks or so.

Unfortunately only about 4,000 are in service worldwide.

marianov
Dynamite. Lots of it. Or a nuke.