Ship of the day

[Sits]

What kind of a name is “Ever Given” anyway? Ever given what?

Actually don’t answer that.

[ad hoc]

I can only imagine what they call the toilet on the ship

[Snake Plissken]

What kind of a name is “Ever Given” anyway? Ever given what?

Actually don’t answer that.

Someone has suggested that given the size of the thing and the fact that everything else has to work around it, that is just the surname and it initially had a forename of "No Fucks".

[hobbes]

A lot of Evergreen's ships have the name Ever - something completely unrelated.

Ever Lissom, Ever Lyric, Ever Lunar etc.

I'm sure Ever Lovely isn't very and Ever Lasting will be scrapped in a decade or so.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Has grog disappeared from the Navy diet?

It would be extremely hard to get pissed on Grog. The rations were too small. Here's a video about the naval diet in the age of sail. This is a very good naval history channel, and the guy actually makes and eats the food. Hardtack looks horrible to eat. and Scotch Coffee is an abomination. but the salted beef looks grand. It struck me watching this that my dad would have absolutely loved to watch this video

Be glad you're not an eighteenth century sailor.

[Snake Plissken]

Be glad you're not an eighteenth century sailor.

Every single day.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Uh-oh!

I sense a sea shanty coming on!

[Balderdasha]

The Japanese owner of the Ever Given has apologised, so that's all right then.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56522178

The salvage company that's trying to shift it say it might take weeks.

[ad hoc]

Interesting little thread by way of an aside

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1374920564633075713

[ad hoc]

A longer version of the above
https://app.visualpedia.igg.cloud/st...he-suez-canal/

[ursus arctos]

Fascinating

I remember the closure quite well, but had only the briefest understanding of the fleet

[delicatemoth]

What happened to the "elite salvage squad" I heard about? The only things in action seem to be Tonka toys.

https://twitter.com/smolrobots/status/1375137551120470017

[gt3]

My mate who is a senior in the Lloyd's marine team says this is a "bit of a headache"

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/shayan86/status/1374690910445899778

[Amor de Cosmos]

The whole of the transport industry is now completely dry and even I have been tested at work even though I'm back office. It's changed the shipping industry though as the camaraderie has now gone. A bloke I know was in the merchant and his first ship in 1980 was a 50,000 tonner with a crew of 50-60. Back then they had different messes, a bar, there was a great atmosphere with all his shipmates. Today a 200,000 tonne ship - four times the one he started on - can be crewed by just 13 people. No bar, no mess, no good times, 12 hours on, 12 hours off, mental health problems abound due the effects of isolation.

A good friend of mine was a heroin addict back in the 60s, he joined the Merchant Navy to clean-up, hard to buy skag in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean I guess. My son's buddy, who's a senior pilot reckoned it used pretty standard to wait off-shore on the night after sailing in order for the crew to sober up. Fish boats still do it apparently.

[ursus arctos]

Fishing boats are a whole other world

[Amor de Cosmos]

Without a doubt.

[caja-dglh]

About ten billion dollars worth of stuff on that boat. Crazy.

[Balderdasha]

About ten billion dollars worth of stuff on that boat. Crazy.

And how much stuck in the queue?

[jwdd27]

I think 10bn dollars is the whole queue - the article I read quoted 50 ships a day, typically carrying between 3 and 9bn worth in total.

I can't believe this hasn't happened before, or that there doesn't appear ro be a contingency for it happening.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/jndevereux/status/1375208782909816832?s=20

[scratchmonkey]

I think 10bn dollars is the whole queue - the article I read quoted 50 ships a day, typically carrying between 3 and 9bn worth in total.

I can't believe this hasn't happened before, or that there doesn't appear ro be a contingency for it happening.

It has, there's a Financial Times article that's very good about why this happens in particular to be worse than before

https://twitter.com/therealfitz/stat...255527430?s=21

The tl;dr is that it matters where a ship runs aground as the construction of the banks varies widely along the canal -- for example, another giant ship ran aground in March and it didn't make the news as they were able to free it in 7 hours, also boats have gotten insanely bigger over the last decade (this boat was only built in 2018) and that complicates the issues with shallow-water hydrodynamics involving banks and massive displacements.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Partially refloated now.

Edit: refloated now thanks to a high tide and many tug boats.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/geekpondering/status/1376201176732073991?s=20

[ad hoc]

https://twitter.com/RAGreeneCNN/status/1376439817018474497