Affecting worldwide shipping.
Stuck sideways since tuesday
Per Blurb on Fox just now
100,s of ships backed up on either side of the Canal.

The sand N I G G E R Egyptians say it might take 2 weeks to unfugg the thing.


Prices and availability of what the fugg ever is on all these ships and involved in what is made or sold from it all is gonna have a world wide dominoe effect.

Female driver?

Real opportunity for someone to make big money.

6 Mexicans. When they crashed they all jumped out and took off running.

Capt Hazlewood, anyone seen him lately?

They've brought in Mammoet.....which who else are you gonna call?

$1.2BB USD in trade revenue go through the Suez every hour, so an expensive wreck. There will probably be food riots.

Cargo ship draws giant penis in Red Sea then becomes wedged in Suez Canal

https://www.news.com.au/finance/eco...s-story/19d9322de92f703442b3aecccf8a7ffd

On Tuesday morning, the Ever Given sailed into the placid waters of the Suez Canal, the 120-mile-long link on its journey from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, as it carried thousands of tons of cargo bound for the Netherlands.

Then a dust storm hit, limiting visibility and battering ships with heavy winds, according to the Suez Canal Authority. By midmorning, the massive ship — one of the largest in the world at more than 1,300 feet long, more than twice the height of the Washington Monument — was wedged sideways across the canal.

Dozens of boats piled up into a marine traffic jam on the crucial shipping lane as tugboats and diggers tried to free the vessel. Oil prices rose Wednesday amid heightened worries over access to the canal, through which some 12 percent of global trade passes.

If they want, I'll see if Boudreaux and Thibodeaux can come get it unstuck. They know all about boats!!!

Chouest prolly has a couple they can send.

Perfect for more C19 associated bullschit and the world oil market to make bank....

Just scratching the surface......

Thankfully most european ammuntion components go thru various black sea/ Mediterranean/ Atlantic ports to the east coast.

Think primers and how many U.S. manufacturers source them from European companies.

ACCIDENT???

Does anyone really believe this was an accident.

Nope. I have transited the Suez more than a dozen times. If they expect heavy weather they don't even allow a vessel to begin the transit and send them to anchorage. Going through the canal is a highly regulated and controlled process. Ships are assigned a transit time and a transit position on each end of the canal and they all are required to have an Egyptian pilot onboard who takes control of the vessel. These pilots are highly trained and they know every inch of the canal. Northbound and southbound vessels leave at the exact same moment and they all meet in the lake in the middle where they pass and continue on. There is only one transit a day made and it will include well over 100 ships in each direction and Egypt charges at least $250,000 per vessel for the transit. The canal is a major money maker for Egypt and they are not going to be so careless as to allow a vessel to transit in heavy winds.

I do not buy the story they are pushing. I am a retired QMC and navigation was my profession for 25 years as a professional sailor in the USN.

Maybe it's full of 10,000 brown skinned people wearing Biden T-shirts.

I'll bet there's a Biden sticker on the stern.

Amarillo is an interesting choice for a retired Quartermaster.

Perfect timing for an Iranian strike and subsequent war started by a Democrat. Like all wars

Ammo prices will sky rocket !

This may interrupt the flow of goods made in the Far East .

Trump did it.

I teach NJROTC. Only 620 high schools in the nation offer the program. One of them is in Amarillo and it is one of the oldest units in the nation. Established 51 years ago.

Lotta vessels queued up.

They are saying a sand storm kicked up and blew it sideways, but the ship in the queue behind it was unaffected.

Should have told him it was none of his Fuggin business why you were in Amarillo.

Thank you for your service Max!

Who would benefit from the Canal being down?

Run an icebreaker though it.

I dont think this was an accident.

What is "a professional sailor in the USN."?

Hold my beer and watch this?

Asian. Obviously

How do you fahq up traveling in a straight line?

Draw a schlong on the Red Sea and God's gonna turn your schitt sideways.

Turn left or right.

Well you got a 1,400 foot long vessel stacked to the gills with containers. Lot of surface area acting like a wind sail. You're required to hire an egyptian to pilot the darn thing thru the canal. I'm sure he had 100's of hours piloting this specific vessel (not). Freak wind hits the ship and pilot doesn't know what the fakk to do. These are highly maneuvarable ships, you know?

Or the egyptian pilot simply pulled a Hazlewood.

Transiting 'the ditch', 2003, with the 2D Marine Expeditionary Brigade, aboard the USS Kearsearge. That's me standing far right.

I think I know what's causing the oceans to rise...

It is interesting but depressing how so many people are spring-loaded to the conspiracy position. No matter how obviously something is an accident, you mental giants instantly leap to the conclusion that it must somehow be a nefariously planned event.

Clever way to cork the canal.

Sounds like you and GunGeek got your covid shots with the microchips in them, so now you're programmed to deny conspiracy theories.

I’ve done the ditch cruise. Pretty impressive how much traffic there can be.

It’s headline news. Not gonna claim conspiracy but wtaf?
Something seems off. The captain of the USS Denver ran us aground at Point Loma. We got back on track rather quickly considering they lost steering.
Who knows huh. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Glad I’m not over there now.

Ain't you just the wag, cra? I bet you believe in zombies. But since zombies eat brains, you are completely safe.

You talking to me?

Lol😉

Even if you are and are implying I don’t have brains that’s fair.
But I been there and done it.

LOL

I'm not a sailor. Do any of those really big ships have bow screws to aid in turning in close quarters?

Guess you never served right? I was a career man, 25+ years not a one time enlistee. Sailing and navigation were my profession.

That definitely falls under “Professional “.

Good on you for carrying on the tradition of JRROTC.

Thanks for clarifying your meaning of the term "professional" - it has undergone a major change of meaning during my lifetime.

Limiting visibility? I’ve got a $50 gps unit on my bass boat that would have solved the visibility issue.

Was this the same guy who captained the Costa Concordia?
Or the cargo ship that ran up on Bramble Bank in the Solent?



They call it a bow thruster..
But I believe so
There is usually a white circle painted just above the waterline near the bow if they do...

Egyptian ship pilot's GPS said "Turn right in 1/4 mile."

Bruce

Recalculating

War.

"It came from China"

How big a boy are you, Shane? 😁

I wasn't aboard - I swear!

"The Warden" has wonderful experience with GPS - until I get in the truck. 5 out of 7 times we get lost, following GPS, when I'm present.
She's starting to realize why I rely on maps and a compass.

Did it get loose yet?

ha!!

Make a U-Turn when possible

My grandpa was a CeeBee, he’d always say “blow it up, put some queers on it first”

😂👍

Caught some idiot on the radio talking about how a preschooler can figure square blocks and round holes. Asked if pilots have training. A unweildy ship in wind, gps would not help a slow helm. I am betting that same idiot cannot drive on ice or back a trailer.