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?
Something that big with 200,000 tons of weight rammed into wet sand at 13 knots is a real problem. We have not dealt with this before as the ship is the largest in the world. To pull it loose would require a huge amount of energy to overcome the suction between the hull and the wet sand. If there are tides there, and apparently there are, it would serve to bury the ship a little more each tide. It may as well be stuck in wet bubble gum.
With 10,000 containers stacked there, imagine how many you would have to remove to even make a difference. It's not like some helicopter can fly over and grab one container at a time. Shipping containers of that size are too heavy for any helicopter, I'm guessing. So there would have to be some way to assemble a massively huge crane system, and drag it there across the sand.
It would probably be less effort to just reroute the Suez Canal around this doomed ship. Start digging, because that will take several years, if not decades.