A small change of plans.

https://news.yahoo.com/effort-free-massive-cargo-ship-090040818.html

Local spectators on shore have taken to calling it "Evergreen Island."

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Wind is really strong today. That can't be helping. I often say the month of April should be called "Wind" around here instead.

[QUOTE=beatnavy;11652257]Local spectators on shore have taken to calling it "Evergreen Island."

That's a good one!
Somewhere there is a person regretting the decision to paint the name in big white letters on the side of the ship. :)

Hard to imagine how many dollars of product are held on that ship.

Could be a big lose to everyone...unless they free it.

Just add this the the many causes of "supply chain issues", (insert green font here), this will surely affect the price of gas!!! [emoji2957][emoji14]

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Ahhh...the signs were not posted properly.:)


The Ever Forward, a 1,095-foot ship that weighs around 130,000 tonnes, is currently stuck off Pasadena, Maryland after running aground between the US cities of Baltimore and Norfolk. It is understood that the ship had around 5,000 containers on it when it ran aground.

According to NPR, it apparently missed a turn when leaving Baltimore that caused it to end up in the shallow waters of Pasadena, where it has remained for three weeks.

NPR also reported that while the ship needs a depth of 42 feet of water to operate, it had only 24 feet, leaving it buried in about fifteen feet of mud.

See, that's what happens when your engine is past your rear axle. Oversteer. Or is it understeer (can never remember)? If the ship was mid-engine this wouldn't have happened ;)

I saw that. A simple high tide isn't going to solve this mess. :eek:

the unloading will start soon.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/massive-cargo-ship-still-stuck-190717420.html

This can't be cheap. I feel for the folks in the NPR story that have all of their household goods in one of those containers for a move.

Funny!

It would have spun instead. Then where would we be?

You may be interested in following this on YouTube at What's going on with shipping.
The status has changed to General Average. This means the cargo can now be held as part of being responsible for all expenses related to the incident. It is also interesting that no details have been released related to what happened. Sal Mercogliano (YouTube) makes some very good points as to why certain causes should be made public and/or acted upon. E.g. was there a miscommunication between the pilot and helmsman or master? Would be nice to know because some changes could be made.

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cha-ching!

Yesterday I had a meeting with Pure Storage. They sell enterprise computer storage, and a subscription model that they call "Evergreen Storage" I asked the sales guy if the company had any regrets picking that name. He replied "no, where are you going with this?" I asked him if he had heard of the cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal, or the one currently stuck in Chesapeake Bay, or if he had seen any of the photos of Evergreen trucks stuck in traffic. Nothing. He had no idea what I was talking about. Does he live in a hole in the ground?

No, they are just computer people.

They are currently unloading containers at a furious rate, trying to get 10% (500 containers) offloaded before the full moon high tides this weekend.

Hooking up the cables to the containers....sounds like a fun job.
I wonder if the captain is helping.;)

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Good luck with that plan. If that boat is really stuck in 15 feet of mud, they're gonna need to unload more than 500 containers on top of the ship to refloat it.

Yeah, I know what you're thinking and it makes sense. They have apparently dredged out a boatload (pun intended) of mud around and underneath it already, so I can only assume that's part of their plan.

They're dumping the dredged material where everything dredged in the Chesapeake goes: to recreate Poplar Island.

vvv Great link, thanks.