Results 1 to 25 of 319
Thread: The big, stuck boat
-
03-26-2021, 06:17 AM #1
The big, stuck boat
-
03-26-2021, 06:20 AM #2Banned
- Join Date
- Oct 2003
- Location
- In Your Wife
- Posts
- 8,291
Cape of Good Hope, here we come!
-
03-26-2021, 06:28 AM #3
Glad this wasn't in the canals upstate...
-
03-26-2021, 06:59 AM #4
They’re already having a hard enough time of it with no water in the canals yet too.
I still call it The Jake.
-
03-26-2021, 07:29 AM #5
I'd venture that the vessel was sending a message, vis it's route, prior to entering the Suez.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
-
03-26-2021, 07:38 AM #6
Wow. That was a sad view into the mind of a sad girl.
“Yesterday, with only a few minutes left in my weekly Zoom appointment with my therapist, I decided to derail the proceedings to ask her what I believed was an essential question. It had nothing to do with my fear of vulnerability or difficulty asking for help; in fact, it had nothing to do with me at all.
Had she seen the stuck boat?”. . .
-
03-26-2021, 07:59 AM #7
At least it isn't Stuckathuntermtn.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
-
03-26-2021, 08:40 AM #8
I don't know. Seemed to find humor in the situation. Imagine being stuck on one of those boats.
Lord, those things are huge. You look at the distant shot of that boat, and remind yourself that one of those boxes is the size of a trailer on a large truck.
I wonder if you can see the pyramids from the top of that boat. Ancient follies meet the modern world.
-
03-26-2021, 09:11 AM #9Registered User
- Join Date
- Mar 2008
- Location
- northern BC
- Posts
- 31,056
That grounding happened due to heavy weather, the water would have been flatter than piss on a plate but a 50 km wind hitting it broadside sent it sideways, along with the incidents of toppled containers I been wondering if they have just made these ships too big and unseaworthy in the effort to carry more boxes and they are driving them in any weather instead of holing up ?
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
-
03-26-2021, 09:29 AM #10
-
03-26-2021, 10:06 AM #11
Got out of China
On a boat
Going to Rotterdam
Sailing a Panamax
Before a following sea
She was making for the
Suez Canal on the outside
On an uphill run
To Rotterdam bay
Off the wind on the heading
Lies the canal
We got 2000 meters
On the waterline nicely Making way
From a noisy bar in Hong Kong
I tried to call you
But on a daytime watch
I realized something had gone wrong
I gooooootttttt Stu-uh-uk
I got stuck in the canal!
Think about all the money
I am losing
I think today might be
My last day
And you know it will
And you know it will
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsIf we're gonna wear uniforms, we should all wear somethin' different!
-
03-26-2021, 10:26 AM #12mental projection
- Join Date
- Feb 2004
- Location
- 208 State
- Posts
- 2,591
Serious question here, but if they were to use some giant airbags under the bow of the ship to get it unstuck would that even work, even just to tip it out into the deeper part of the canal?
-
03-26-2021, 10:33 AM #13Registered User
- Join Date
- Mar 2008
- Location
- northern BC
- Posts
- 31,056
we can just get the boys to run over with the hydrovac after lunch
probably will be hydro excavation and a favorable tide
51 ships a day normaly so they are getting backed up and some are headed for the cape but some are to stuck in the lineup, its gona affect the price of many things
a recommended buy on tiolet paperLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
-
03-26-2021, 10:33 AM #14man of ice
- Join Date
- Jun 2020
- Location
- in a freezer in Italy
- Posts
- 7,288
@mtnjam: Those guys from Smit (the Dutch salvage company) bring some crazy tech to that game, I suppose that could be one idea they have. Have to be some big fuckin airbags though.
I'd bet they use some sort of hydrojet to blast the sand away from it and free it but we'll see.
-
03-26-2021, 10:35 AM #15
Article on how they get it unstuck: https://www.bbc.com/news/56523659
No mention of airbags, but there is mention of the problem of creating unequal weight distribution and breaking the boat in half. Airbags seem like they might present a similar issue.
-
03-26-2021, 10:56 AM #16
They should take the little man from inside the boat...
-
03-26-2021, 11:27 AM #17
The most expensive mistake in history? What are other contenders?
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________
"We don't need predator control, we need whiner control. Anyone who complains that "the gummint oughta do sumpin" about the wolves and coyotes should be darted, caged, and released in a more suitable habitat for them, like the middle of Manhattan." - Spats
"I'm constantly doing things I can't do. Thats how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
Cisco and his wife are fragile idiots who breed morons.
-
03-26-2021, 11:33 AM #18
-
03-26-2021, 11:41 AM #19
don’t worry about jeff, he done already made that money back.
-
03-26-2021, 11:41 AM #20
-
03-26-2021, 11:43 AM #21
-
03-26-2021, 11:51 AM #22
-
03-26-2021, 11:58 AM #23
Ya, true, but I guess I sort of meant just like one persons oops moment, not a complicated combination of poor design training, etc. Or just a failure or accident like the challenger.
Bezos divorce has to be up there. Mindblowing to me we live in an era were dynastic wealth is created not even by building an empire but simply by divorcing one. Mindblwoing to me we think a woman deserves that much money just for getting divorced, and not like the valuation of how much she would have earned if she had chosen a career instead.__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________________
"We don't need predator control, we need whiner control. Anyone who complains that "the gummint oughta do sumpin" about the wolves and coyotes should be darted, caged, and released in a more suitable habitat for them, like the middle of Manhattan." - Spats
"I'm constantly doing things I can't do. Thats how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso
Cisco and his wife are fragile idiots who breed morons.
-
03-26-2021, 12:08 PM #24
-
03-26-2021, 12:09 PM #25
Wow That’s a seriously sexist and misogynistic take. Guessing you have zero idea of her level of involvement in early days of a garage officed Amazon
Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
Bookmarks