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.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 79.4 ms ] threadThe traffic map shows a traffic jam behind it, but that should clear now.
It got stuck between 17:15UTC and 22:00UTC, and had completely left the canal by 01:55UTC the next day.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:43...
You must mean the Philadelphia Experiment.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
Prepping still looks like a good idea. Should shortages and conflict develop this coming winter.
It was annoying, and costly, but nothing more.
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.
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BRB shorting Tim Hortons.
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.
We really are running out of people
Go figure!