Seriously though! With this much money at stake they should have a small army of excavators, bulldozers, tugboats, and lord knows what else hauling this thing out of there.
But all I see digging the damn thing out is ONE LITTLE EXCAVATOR? That's all I've seen pictures of. Where's all the rest of the equipment? Am I missing something???
Shit, there's more than that at the local construction site on my way to work! And I guarantee you my local construction site has a lot less money at stake than the jammed up Suez canal does.
They're slow-walking this on purpose! CHANGE MY MIND!
I work near the Houston Ship Channel. I was talking to some friends that work in the same area and are extremely familiar with shipping and the port.
We all agreed. The waterway for the Houston Ship Channel is roughly similar in width to the Suez Canal waterway. If a large ship ever ran aground and got stuck diagonally blocking the channel... it would be freed within 2-days at worst. No question about it... all available resources would be brought and the ship would be straightened out within 48 hours. The largest dredges, floating cranes, tug boats, excavators, etc... would all be on site within hours.
How is it that a ship stuck in SAND is that difficult to extract? It's not like the Nile delta area and the Suez Canal itself wouldn't have large equipment nearby.
I suppose your friends are not Egyptians. That might be one reason for the difference.
Yeah, but... they did build the pyramids, you'd think they'd have a rope and pully system available.
*edit, just read further down the comments, my pyramid comment isn't very original. Oh well. kek!
Yeah, its hard to bring back 5000 year old Egyptians with a work ethic.
ever hear of mummies
Well they were slaves so
Biggest container ship and the tide gets higher in a few weeks.plus it's just the locals working on it for now so basically 1600 years of inbreeding meets payloader vs really big boat.