Following two failed attempts, crews will begin to offload some of the cargo to decrease the ship’s weight.
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A blue whale weighs 200 tons? Way off.
Being an ex navy man navigation in potentially shallow waters is a location where every thing must be taken into consideration. Relying on. Computer navigation "Alone". Is asking for trouble. Navigation satilites is unwise. To many things can affect their accuracy.
figures it is an evergreen. Their captains. Seem to have issues
It would be interesting to know the circumstances of this going aground.
According to the position of the ship on the map, she seems to be outside the channel, almost on the edge of it;
Possibly steering system or / and engine failure, or human error, difficult to say as we are not a crew member nor an expert commissioned to solve the problem.
So please gentlemen, comment with moderation, and don't blame a captain or pilot, and keep in mind a ship has no brake, and even at low speed, has a HHHUUUGGGEEE inertia.
In this day and age, with all of the technology, how does a ship get grounded? Maybe they need to use Waze so the captains can point out the sand bars and other hazards (large school of fish, coast guard hiding behind a wave, etc).
They just should wait until global warming raises the sea level lol
it is unlikely the ships captain or pilot detoured off the approved designated route. So the next question would be how often are theses routes surveyed to verify they remain safe for shipping to navigate? This is more a failure of nations not updating and lack of recent surveysand to keep shipping with the latest ocean charts and verify this, at risk route is safe to navigate.
graduate from online class is the captain
Just label the ship a racist so it can be looted. It will loose enough weight to float it.
Sheesh evergreen is unlucky
Something wrong with EVERGREEN ..
It was STUCK there for a legit reason!
Maybe all of the captains at evergreen should undergo training again. Unless this is the same crew as the canal incident.
Bet they are dumping raw sewage into that water .and wet garbage meaning that comes from the galley
Somebody probably won a bet LMAO 🤣
I'm curious how far off shore
Not 130 tons. 130,000 tons.
The second time a container ship from this Evergreen line got stuck! At least it didn't create a blockade this time around, as was the case in the Suez Canal. A little bit embarrassing maybe? 2x with 12 months?
It took them 3 weeks to think to decrease the weight to increase buoyancy? It took me 3 seconds to figure that out. The only other option would be to increase the water amount in the bay by opening dams but that would pollute the Bay and possibly kill it's ecosystem.
Whenever I doubt my abilities people like this give me a lot of confidence. Instead of thinking "I'm not qualified" I think of how many idiots already do that job.
Just curious
Has anyone seen or confirmed The Evergreen Fleet is equipped with Bow and Stern Thrusters. ?
Scrap the ship and then company
How though. That ship has to have systems to warn crew if that'll happen. Did gps fail? See if an icebreaker can be commissioned. It'll probably cost less than what is spent on time messing with.
No technology to determine water depth?
Sonar? Wtf
Try installing inflatable equipment at only one end, concentrating on lifting only 1/3rd, just enough to maintsin balance,then tug boat it.
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130 tons?? Oh ok 👌🏼
If it was going from Baltimore to Norfork why not but the containers on a train
So.,.now everyone knows😔 dumb !!
It's always Evergreen ships get stuck around the world causing trouble owned by Japanese and Taiwanese.
After all else failed, someone said "Here's a radical idea: instead of sending hundreds of truck's worth of stuff via trains or heaven forbid, I-95, let's float all of that down the Chesapeake. Not on any boat, but rather the one which blocked the Suez Canal for a few weeks".
Not good to be the bay pilot on board.
I HOPE THE CONTAINERS WERE SEARCHED BEFORE IT LEFT, MAKE SURE THERE WAS NO CHILDREN ON IT !!!!!!
so was it overloaded? did he veer out of shipping lane? why is he grounded?
Did they remove the children first?
Evergreen ship stuck again? We need to rename them to Ever-stuck.
Stupid people, I swear.
It's even funnier the second time!
Evergreen is doing the whole global ship stuck selfie tour thing. Up next the mighty mississippi.
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Another evergreen got to make you wonder
Use another container ship to pull it free just make sure the water is deep enough and it has some power .
Wait! Wasn't the ship that got stuck in the canal the Evergreen?!?!
My earbuds.
Whoever wrote the captions needs to find another job. "130 Tons?!?" What a howler.
It may be that these giant cargo ships are too difficult to handle and control in restricted waters, and that’s why this is the second one to get stuck.