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!
that exce is largest to fit on a semi without wide load sinage, $500 just to load,move,unload and runss $200-300 hr. based on fencing it was used on deconstructio site and has a boom/extended arm. bucket is enough to fill a semi in 5 scoops or roughly3x5x6 bucket. it can dig 24-30 ft down in 5 mins which is 2-5 dump truck loads. it can dig a 20x30x120 trench in less than an hour.
you dont want too many in one space that geets weaker the more water you move.