I feel like this was part of the plan, given the name of the boat and the call sign. It feels like Evergreen was suppose to get stuck and hold up all transportation flow for the next two weeks while operations are being carried out. I just can’t imagine they couldn’t get that boat unstuck in one day if they really wanted too.
Thoughts?
When its floating, a big ship can and is pushed around pretty easily by tugs. Once stuck, it's a dead weight. Not that surprising that a big gust could move it or that with so little spare space it could go aground. It is about 190 ft wide, by 1300 ft long, by about 100 ft high loaded, a lot of area to be pushed by the wind, with all the weight the momentum would keep carrying it sideways for a while. See Newton's laws of motion. Or go get a rowboat, row like mad on a quiet surface then stop and see how far your little boat continues to go before it stops.
They've been running ships on that canal for 100 years. Never had wind blow a shipnside ways. The names of the ship and tugs, all the other indicators thisnwas deliberate.
Did Newton's law of motion also draw the body parts?
Are you suggesting the pilots, whoever they are, and who are responsible for this mess, were deliberately planning to screw the canal? It's possible. Why send a signal though when the suspicion is sure to fall on them already?
Idk what they were doing, nothing would surprise me at this point
Funny how you got a down vote for posting logic. We need to look at every angle and not just the ones we like.
I think the people who are wondering whether the wind could turn a ship are forgetting that with no power, there is no control. Ships that size have systems in place to keep them straight. Those systems failed.
Obviously this isn't common and I am sure that the power loss was intentional. Whether someone pn the ship did it or someone else is irrelevant.