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Post by Tommy » Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:22 pm

Geniuine question. Why can't they just unload the cargo and drag it free? Is the weight of the cargo insignificant to the total weight of the ship?

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Post by Raid » Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:33 pm

That's a mammoth task, and they don't have the usual specialist dock equipment to do it. By my rough estimate there are 4500 containers on that deck, which would individually need to be lifted by helicopter. Besides, so far as I can tell the problem is that the ship has buried the bulbous bow in the side of the canal, and while the weight isn't going to help, they're still going to need to dig the bow out.

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Post by Drarok » Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:08 pm

Why is it I only see pictures of a single excavator working on it? Surely they could have flown every excavator in an x mile radius there and still worked out better-off in the long run?
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Post by eny » Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:04 pm

The Cape of Good Hope hasn't been this busy in decades!
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Post by eny » Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:12 pm

It's too late to make Suez Canal jokes now. That ship has sailed. :D
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Post by Hatredsheart » Mon Mar 29, 2021 11:34 pm

eny wrote:
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It's too late to make Suez Canal jokes now. That ship has sailed. :D
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Post by Rossell » Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:16 am



Hopefully the right part of this thread appears. They're talking about how supersonic jets are needed for the future, one drawback is the ban on going supersonic over land.

Now pardon me but who wants to hear a motorbike/lawnmower so many times a day?

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Post by Sly Boots » Wed Apr 07, 2021 10:15 am

So, apparently they really will be erecting a giant new skyscraper in Manhattan and calling it... Penn15. :|

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Post by Achtung Englander » Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:40 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... r-56743693

Idiots, they forgot the first rule of crime, get a job in the city and the greater amount you steal, the more likely you get on the honours list and get away scot free. Amateurs.
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Post by Animalmother » Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:50 am

What a load of crepe...

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Post by Rossell » Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:26 pm



Wonderful.

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Post by Snowy » Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:04 pm

Shame, I would have put Count Binface well ahead of that petty little cock.
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