There isn't enough room to get enough large ships in.
It isn't a matter of horsepower, but of momentum.
When the ship was moving through the canal it was doing so with a massive amount of momentum. It may take 20 minutes for a ship of that size to get to top speed, and even more time to slow down.
They can't use a big ship to dislodge it because there is simply no way to get momentum enough to overcome the static friction. You'd risk simply tearing the winch before moving the Ever Given a single inch.
On top of that, it's been so long that it has also settled into the soil.
The only thing to do now is dig it out or saw the ship in half and scrap it, as strange as that sounds.
For one, it only works on sand. Hit bedrock and you're donezos.
The canal isn't a natural structure, it was carved from sandstone and even bedrock. They could run out of sand. I don't know on this one just yet. They may luck out.
The sand also has to go somewhere. There are logistics on this that are far past any of our paygrade.
All I do know is this: they said it was gonna take two weeks.
Given how EVERY government or corporate operations never reaches the original deadline, we might be here for a month.
And that's just to free up the ship. Even when it gets moving, you have a traffic jam to deal with. Traffic jams are well studied, and the movement follows a predictable curve.
This whole thing is gonna have repercussions for months.
Call me ignorant but those tiny ass tugs don’t do shit for that huge ship. And you have plenty of other large massive horsepower ships sitting around.
Why aren’t 10 ships latching together to pull that sucker out ?
That ship weighs as much as a skyscraper.
10 tugs aren't gonna do a thing to get it out.
There isn't enough room to get enough large ships in.
It isn't a matter of horsepower, but of momentum.
When the ship was moving through the canal it was doing so with a massive amount of momentum. It may take 20 minutes for a ship of that size to get to top speed, and even more time to slow down.
They can't use a big ship to dislodge it because there is simply no way to get momentum enough to overcome the static friction. You'd risk simply tearing the winch before moving the Ever Given a single inch.
On top of that, it's been so long that it has also settled into the soil.
The only thing to do now is dig it out or saw the ship in half and scrap it, as strange as that sounds.
How about that sand vaccuum they used to make the islands in Saudi arabia?
For one, it only works on sand. Hit bedrock and you're donezos.
The canal isn't a natural structure, it was carved from sandstone and even bedrock. They could run out of sand. I don't know on this one just yet. They may luck out.
The sand also has to go somewhere. There are logistics on this that are far past any of our paygrade.
All I do know is this: they said it was gonna take two weeks.
Given how EVERY government or corporate operations never reaches the original deadline, we might be here for a month.
And that's just to free up the ship. Even when it gets moving, you have a traffic jam to deal with. Traffic jams are well studied, and the movement follows a predictable curve.
This whole thing is gonna have repercussions for months.