birth canal?!.....ship stuck in Suez Canal.....freed.....!!!

[NewtonMP2100]

.....just heard on news.....

[rgG]

Saw that. Glad she is un-stuck.

[MindMeld]

Was that a "breech" birth?

[macphanatic]

So much for it taking weeks to get it freed. Glad it didn't take as long as many speculated.

Initial reports are that the ship was traveling above the speed limit when it got stuck. Wonder how many points the Captain will get on his license for speeding.miley-laughing001:

[pRICE cUBE]

[rjmacs]

macphanatic wrote:
So much for it taking weeks to get it freed. Glad it didn't take as long as many speculated.

Initial reports are that the ship was traveling above the speed limit when it got stuck. Wonder how many points the Captain will get on his license for speeding.miley-laughing001:

Pretty sure that driving slower wouldn't have made any difference to the massive winds and sandstorm that blew it sideways.

[macphanatic]

rjmacs wrote:
[quote=macphanatic]
So much for it taking weeks to get it freed. Glad it didn't take as long as many speculated.

Initial reports are that the ship was traveling above the speed limit when it got stuck. Wonder how many points the Captain will get on his license for speeding.miley-laughing001:

Pretty sure that driving slower wouldn't have made any difference to the massive winds and sandstorm that blew it sideways.
Maybe not. Or maybe it would have given a bit more time for course correction. There's a reason that highways impose speed restrictions for trucks and other large vehicles during high winds.

[Sarcany]

macphanatic wrote:
[quote=rjmacs]
[quote=macphanatic]
So much for it taking weeks to get it freed. Glad it didn't take as long as many speculated.

Initial reports are that the ship was traveling above the speed limit when it got stuck. Wonder how many points the Captain will get on his license for speeding.miley-laughing001:

Pretty sure that driving slower wouldn't have made any difference to the massive winds and sandstorm that blew it sideways.
Maybe not. Or maybe it would have given a bit more time for course correction. There's a reason that highways impose speed restrictions for trucks and other large vehicles during high winds.
From the description of the event, it seems that it wasn't simply blown sideways. They're saying that it was human-error. The navigator turned to present a better angle to the wind, but didn't consider that the wind was changing unpredictably.

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