Big boat stuck
May 24, 2023 9:24 PM Subscribe
Barely into the writer's strike and we're just reusing material, huh?
posted by ominous_paws at 9:34 PM on May 24, 2023 [127 favorites]
posted by ominous_paws at 9:34 PM on May 24, 2023 [127 favorites]
The people in PR for Evergreen must feel a wave of relief at the moment. (Previously, and slightly less previously.)
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:34 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:34 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
In these trying times, something we can all unite around:
Big boat stuck
posted by CrystalDave at 9:36 PM on May 24, 2023 [10 favorites]
Big boat stuck
posted by CrystalDave at 9:36 PM on May 24, 2023 [10 favorites]
The people in PR for Evergreen
Ever Given. Nice try, PR person in disguise. Never forget the Ever Given.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 9:41 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
Ever Given. Nice try, PR person in disguise. Never forget the Ever Given.
posted by [insert clever name here] at 9:41 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
”…the ship is the Xin Hai Tong 23, a 189m-long bulk carrier…
More like the Xin Hai Long, AMIRITE
posted by Capt. Renault at 9:43 PM on May 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
More like the Xin Hai Long, AMIRITE
posted by Capt. Renault at 9:43 PM on May 24, 2023 [2 favorites]
I have stuck
the boat
that was in
the canal
and which
you were probably
hoping
to ship things
Forgive me
It’s a big boat
so long
and so wide
posted by mhoye at 9:44 PM on May 24, 2023 [68 favorites]
the boat
that was in
the canal
and which
you were probably
hoping
to ship things
Forgive me
It’s a big boat
so long
and so wide
posted by mhoye at 9:44 PM on May 24, 2023 [68 favorites]
As we float, stuck aground, without care
It's more fun to do things as a pair.
It's a boon without price
To do something twice:
Islands in the stream, that's what we are
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 9:45 PM on May 24, 2023 [8 favorites]
It's more fun to do things as a pair.
It's a boon without price
To do something twice:
Islands in the stream, that's what we are
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 9:45 PM on May 24, 2023 [8 favorites]
Can't park there
posted by Kye at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by Kye at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to sail on your keel
for a thousand miles through the ocean freighting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your big boat
stick what it sticks.
posted by cortex at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2023 [23 favorites]
You do not have to sail on your keel
for a thousand miles through the ocean freighting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your big boat
stick what it sticks.
posted by cortex at 9:47 PM on May 24, 2023 [23 favorites]
Visual: Large piece of paper jammed into too-small slot
Text on paper: WIDEN THE CANAL.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:54 PM on May 24, 2023 [5 favorites]
Text on paper: WIDEN THE CANAL.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:54 PM on May 24, 2023 [5 favorites]
I think this story is nostalgic and comforting.
posted by Keith Talent at 10:01 PM on May 24, 2023 [14 favorites]
posted by Keith Talent at 10:01 PM on May 24, 2023 [14 favorites]
Shoot - I forgot to provide the crucial context that the too-small slot is in the top of a SUGGESTIONS box. Oh well, I blew that delivery...
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:06 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:06 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
WGA goes on strike, reality almost immediately starts recycling past plots.
posted by tclark at 10:06 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by tclark at 10:06 PM on May 24, 2023 [6 favorites]
This is what I get for not reloading the page before posting a comment.
posted by tclark at 10:07 PM on May 24, 2023 [10 favorites]
posted by tclark at 10:07 PM on May 24, 2023 [10 favorites]
WGA goes on strike, reality almost immediately starts recycling past plots.
Works for Metafilter comments too... ;)
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:08 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
Works for Metafilter comments too... ;)
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:08 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
WGA goes on strike, reality almost immediately starts recycling past plots.
posted by cortex at 10:08 PM on May 24, 2023 [19 favorites]
posted by cortex at 10:08 PM on May 24, 2023 [19 favorites]
Works for Met-- wait ...
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:09 PM on May 24, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:09 PM on May 24, 2023 [5 favorites]
posted by Fiasco da Gama
Eponysterical, you cheeky monkey.
posted by gwint at 10:13 PM on May 24, 2023 [14 favorites]
Eponysterical, you cheeky monkey.
posted by gwint at 10:13 PM on May 24, 2023 [14 favorites]
tugs have already re-floated it
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posted by user92371 at 10:17 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
marinetraffic.com map
posted by user92371 at 10:17 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
When the moon
Hits your boat
And it cea-
Ses to float
Ran ashore, eh?
posted by staggernation at 10:17 PM on May 24, 2023 [75 favorites]
Hits your boat
And it cea-
Ses to float
Ran ashore, eh?
posted by staggernation at 10:17 PM on May 24, 2023 [75 favorites]
Ever Given. Nice try, PR person in disguise. Never forget the Ever Given.
Evergreen is the company that owns the Ever Given.
posted by axiom at 10:18 PM on May 24, 2023 [13 favorites]
Evergreen is the company that owns the Ever Given.
posted by axiom at 10:18 PM on May 24, 2023 [13 favorites]
Barely into the writer's strike and we're just reusing material, huh?
That joke is almost... wait for it... evergreen
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 10:21 PM on May 24, 2023 [15 favorites]
That joke is almost... wait for it... evergreen
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 10:21 PM on May 24, 2023 [15 favorites]
god dammit i was really hoping for more than a quick tug job
posted by cortex at 10:22 PM on May 24, 2023 [49 favorites]
posted by cortex at 10:22 PM on May 24, 2023 [49 favorites]
So happy for such needed laughs. Never change, Metafilter.
posted by lhauser at 10:59 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by lhauser at 10:59 PM on May 24, 2023 [3 favorites]
Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening three times?
posted by AlSweigart at 11:22 PM on May 24, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by AlSweigart at 11:22 PM on May 24, 2023 [7 favorites]
Jeez. These boats gotta get their shit together. Embarrassing
posted by potrzebie at 11:23 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by potrzebie at 11:23 PM on May 24, 2023 [1 favorite]
When history starts out farce, is it farce all the way down?
posted by jamjam at 12:31 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by jamjam at 12:31 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
Yeah, but what are the odds of that happening three times?
Honestly it seems to happen once or twice a year, it’s just before Ever Given the ships were freed quickly, like this one was, and no one really noticed outside of the shipping industry.
posted by jmauro at 12:50 AM on May 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
Honestly it seems to happen once or twice a year, it’s just before Ever Given the ships were freed quickly, like this one was, and no one really noticed outside of the shipping industry.
posted by jmauro at 12:50 AM on May 25, 2023 [5 favorites]
Have I missed a memo as to why the canal hasn't been widened?
posted by bryon at 1:36 AM on May 25, 2023
posted by bryon at 1:36 AM on May 25, 2023
Duplicate post, can we get a mod to--- oh
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 1:49 AM on May 25, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 1:49 AM on May 25, 2023 [7 favorites]
I have no idea how these people got their cats ships wedged into their scanners canals, or why.
posted by kokaku at 2:43 AM on May 25, 2023 [10 favorites]
posted by kokaku at 2:43 AM on May 25, 2023 [10 favorites]
Ever lovin' ...
posted by GallonOfAlan at 3:08 AM on May 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by GallonOfAlan at 3:08 AM on May 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
Can't park there
Is this not a reasonable place to park
posted by mhoye at 4:09 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
Is this not a reasonable place to park
posted by mhoye at 4:09 AM on May 25, 2023 [2 favorites]
train getting derailed: this sucks. god damnit. fucking hell world
boat getting stuck: yes. oh HELL YES
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:22 AM on May 25, 2023 [8 favorites]
boat getting stuck: yes. oh HELL YES
posted by DoctorFedora at 4:22 AM on May 25, 2023 [8 favorites]
re: widening the canal, i suspect (in the absence of real evidence or knowledge) that this is very subject to the problem of induced demand. if suezmax increases, people will build boats that are the new suezmax, and those would be just as likely to get stuck in new-suez as current suezmax boats are likely to get stuck in the current suez canal.
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 5:57 AM on May 25, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by bombastic lowercase pronouncements at 5:57 AM on May 25, 2023 [8 favorites]
Plot twist: it was full of ground beef, cheese, and tomato sauce.
And for a few glorious hours, we had canalloni.
posted by allium cepa at 6:11 AM on May 25, 2023 [11 favorites]
And for a few glorious hours, we had canalloni.
posted by allium cepa at 6:11 AM on May 25, 2023 [11 favorites]
I think we can all agree that humans don't learn anything from their mistakes.
posted by tommasz at 6:50 AM on May 25, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by tommasz at 6:50 AM on May 25, 2023 [4 favorites]
tugs & lube, the perfect night in
posted by chavenet at 8:19 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 8:19 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
if suezmax increases, people will build boats that are the new suezmax
They'd need to widen the canal while strictly enforcing the current boat size limit. Though I'm cynical enough to assume that state of affairs wouldn't last.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:28 AM on May 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
They'd need to widen the canal while strictly enforcing the current boat size limit. Though I'm cynical enough to assume that state of affairs wouldn't last.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:28 AM on May 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
Bigger boats have been tried, at least in the tanker world. ULCCs (ultra-large cargo carriers) are monsters, bigger than even "normal" VLCC supertankers (very large). But they've proven to be uneconomic (tying too much inventory up at once), but more importantly, getting to the point where the steel isn't strong enough to deal with the forces large waves put on the ships. Material strength is constant, lever arms scale with size, skin stresses scale with the square of size. At a certain point, it becomes too risky to build ships of a large size. The ULCC is too big in the view of many insurers.
Container ships are testing these limits too, with the 6000 container ships of a few years ago and the coming larger ones. I suspect they're going to run into similar issues. There have already been roll-over issues with container stack-heights being too tall for large waves. Tall stack of containers have trouble handling the forces of ships rolling in heavier seas. There have been a few spills of containers in the past years and the spill planners/responders are growing increasingly concerned about big container ships. Containers themselves aren't strong enough to handle the increasing demands of higher stack heights either. There are physical limits there too.
There are upper boundaries on what's possible, based on materials strengths (and how much it costs to build ships and containers) and the sea conditions that they have to sail in. Technology affects the first, while climate change affects the second.
posted by bonehead at 9:26 AM on May 25, 2023 [9 favorites]
Container ships are testing these limits too, with the 6000 container ships of a few years ago and the coming larger ones. I suspect they're going to run into similar issues. There have already been roll-over issues with container stack-heights being too tall for large waves. Tall stack of containers have trouble handling the forces of ships rolling in heavier seas. There have been a few spills of containers in the past years and the spill planners/responders are growing increasingly concerned about big container ships. Containers themselves aren't strong enough to handle the increasing demands of higher stack heights either. There are physical limits there too.
There are upper boundaries on what's possible, based on materials strengths (and how much it costs to build ships and containers) and the sea conditions that they have to sail in. Technology affects the first, while climate change affects the second.
posted by bonehead at 9:26 AM on May 25, 2023 [9 favorites]
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
posted by kirkaracha at 9:39 AM on May 25, 2023 [18 favorites]
posted by kirkaracha at 9:39 AM on May 25, 2023 [18 favorites]
So now the supply chain is out of ideas too? It's just sequel after sequel. I'd love to see some new supply chain IP. I'm just spitballing here, but what if a cargo shipped was suddenly launched out of the ocean toward the moon?! I'm thinking a handful of newcomers as the cast and maybe a name director... What's Nolan got on his plate right now?
posted by SonInLawOfSam at 9:52 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by SonInLawOfSam at 9:52 AM on May 25, 2023 [3 favorites]
Your Delivery status:
⚪️ Letterbox
⚪️ with neighbour
⚪️ At the depot
🔘 Somewhere in the Suez Canal (x)
posted by Lanark at 11:58 AM on May 25, 2023 [7 favorites]
⚪️ Letterbox
⚪️ with neighbour
⚪️ At the depot
🔘 Somewhere in the Suez Canal (x)
posted by Lanark at 11:58 AM on May 25, 2023 [7 favorites]
I have no idea how these people got their ships wedged into their canals
Musings on that theme from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (cw: deeply, horribly, inexcusably, deliberately offensive on every conceivable level)
posted by flabdablet at 5:57 AM on May 26, 2023
Musings on that theme from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (cw: deeply, horribly, inexcusably, deliberately offensive on every conceivable level)
posted by flabdablet at 5:57 AM on May 26, 2023
MemeMetafest, here, and I am enjoying it. MetaMemeFest? Hope Me.
posted by theora55 at 9:25 AM on May 26, 2023
posted by theora55 at 9:25 AM on May 26, 2023
Do canal workers shares pictures of stuck boats like the way medical workers share x-rays of things that get stuck in other passages?
posted by srboisvert at 4:17 PM on May 26, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by srboisvert at 4:17 PM on May 26, 2023 [1 favorite]
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