Stuck

[George K]

You can see the ship here:

https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000

And look at all the ships waiting when you zoom out.

[Mik]

@taiwan_girl said in Stuck:

I would think a ship like this would have pretty detailed navigating systems.

The front of the ship starts to go off the correct line, the motors power one side or the other to correct for example

It just surprises me that this would happen. For sure, someone who was steering messed up big time!

Evergreen is a Taiwan company, and the headline in one of the papers yesterday was "National Embarrassing!"

The winds blew the stern of the ship off, not the bow.

[Mik]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-salvage/suez-ship-rescuers-weigh-time-and-tide-with-risk-of-tip-or-tear-idUSKBN2BI283

[jon-nyc]

Good picture from that Reuters article. Look at all those containers

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc Ther's got to be what? 1800 on there? 2000? Those things weigh 4 tons empty...The ship itself is 200,000 tons. The max payload for most of those containers is 30 tons. Guess an average payload of 16 tons for shits and giggles... You're getting up close to 250,000 tons and that's a conservative guess.

[LuFins Dad]

I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?

[Doctor Phibes]

@lufins-dad said in Stuck:

I wonder how much that Captain makes a year and whether he feels it is worth it right now?

Look on the bright side, he's got a great story for his grandchildren.

[jon-nyc]

@lufins-dad

It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.

Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.

[Mik]

Ive been looking for diagrams since I can’t figure out where the bridge is.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Stuck:

@lufins-dad

It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.

Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.

20,000 8’ by 40’? That’s what I based my guess on.

In that picture, l’m counting 9-10 rows high, 24 long, and 10 deep (give or take). I was figuring those to be the typical 8’ x 40’ giving a max of 2400. Obviously I am missing something...

[Copper]

@lufins-dad said in Stuck:

@jon-nyc said in Stuck:

@lufins-dad

It’s one of the largest container ships in the world.

Its max capacity is 20,000 containers.

20,000 8’ by 40’? That’s what I based my guess on.

In that picture, l’m counting 9-10 rows high, 24 long, and 10 deep (give or take). I was figuring those to be the typical 8’ x 40’ giving a max of 2400. Obviously I am missing something...

Is this one at max capacity?

[Axtremus]

@doctor-phibes said in Stuck:

Look on the bright side, he's got a great story for his grandchildren.

Once upon a time, the winds of fate blew me ship off and put it squarely on the “pause” button of global commerce ...

[Axtremus]

Got me wonder how the Thunderbirds team would deal with something like this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_(TV_series)

Maybe they won’t at all, since no human life is at stake. :man-shrugging:

[jon-nyc]

@lufins-dad

I looked it up and it’s 20k TEU which is twenty foot equivalent units.

So it would hold 10k of the 40 ft units

[LuFins Dad]

The truck commercials practically write themselves.

[89th]

@lufins-dad said in Stuck:

The truck commercials practically write themselves.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th

Nahhh, just a commercial with some cowboy pulling up in a pickup truck, tying the ship to his tow hitch, and pulling the ship clear....

[89th]

[Mik]

Big futhermucker.

I wonder if they still think it might be cleared tomorrow or Monday.

[Jolly]

Part of the problem is that the captains are always under the gun of a tight schedule.

My in-laws neighbor captains a container ship on the Houston-Antwerp-Houston run. A couple of years ago, he chose to throttle down and let a bad Atlantic storm go through, rather than risk his vessel and cargo.

I don't know how much it cost the company, but he had to undergo a company review board over his actions and his command was on the line.