What if they offloaded the containers from the front 1/3 or so and then used a high volume water pump and hose to blast the sand from below the bow?
I think that the combination of making the front lighter and dispersing the sand would make it feasible to tug out.
Just my Sunday thought while reading into the Suez situation.
That's my line of thought. Similar to when you ram a canoe into the shore. You get the person out of the bow, bow rises, and the person remaining in the back can easily row in reverse and free the canoe. I know it's about a billion times bigger than the canoe analogy but still the same principle.
You'd have to be careful doing this. It would almost be like a game of Jenga. You'd have to make sure the weight was properly balanced.
That's very true and would require the weight of all the individual containers and their location on the vessel to be calculated. A quick look into the ships manifest would make that easy. They have all the weight and location information at their fingertips.