Stuck Ship Moves 100 Feet, With tides rising, crews hope to free Ever Given on Sunday

[Demovictory9]

With a full moon helping to lift tides, crews were digging in Sunday, determined to free the huge cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal before the end of the weekend.

Several developments made them hopeful, the New York Times reports. Salvage crews got the ship to move about 100 feet late Saturday, setting off a cacophony of tugboat horns in celebration.

The ship's rudder is now free. Water is flowing under the Ever Given, which became lodged in Egypt's canal on Tuesday, blocking ship traffic. Two more tugboats are on the way to help, for a total of 13.

"We expect that at any time the ship could slide and move from the spot it is in," the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority said. "Sunday is very critical," a pilot with the canal authority said, per USA Today. "It will determine the next step, which highly likely involves at least the partial offloading of the vessel.

https://www.newser.com/story/304227/sunday-is-crews-goal-for-freeing-ship.html

[aeromanKC]

1. The Moon saved the day!!

[BigmanPigman]

2. The ship has EVERGREEN painted on it

but some people refer to it as Ever Given, why?

[MissB]

4. Evergreen is the company name and ever given is the ship name

They have lots of ships with names that start with ever.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Thank you, that was driving me crazy.

[soothsayer]

5. Because evergreen is the shipping line while 'ever given' is that particular ship

[crickets]

7. Evergreen is the company name, Ever Given the name of the vessel. nt

[Vinca]

3. Wonder why they don't have locks that can be flooded when this happens.

[soothsayer]

6. It's a good idea

[PoliticAverse]

8. Well they certainly seem to need a better plan for such situations. n/t

[Retrograde]

18. The canal's over 150 years old

It was built when ships were a fraction of this size - I'd say it's the ships that should better plan for these situations.

Although maybe a height or tonnage limit would have helped - for all I know they may have such limits and the shipping company decided to risk it anyway.

[PoliticAverse]

19. Well that's the thing. If the canal is going to allow giant ships...

that can be pushed by the wind into getting stuck they need to up their unsticking game plan.

The Egyption government takes in over $ 5 billion per year from the canal, so there is some revenue there to pay for things.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. Because it's a sea-level canal.

Locks are needed to ascend a river/canal to higher altitude, or to descend in a controlled fashion.

It would take HUGE (-ly expensive) locks to handle this vessel, and they're not normally needed... AND you'd need huge pumps to fill them, so why build them ?

[central scrutinizer]

13. Need a ginormous Falkirk wheel

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[brush]

15. I think it's because the Mediterrean and the Red Sea are on the same level, unlike...

how the Pacific and Altantic oceans are not and thus locks are needed to raise or lower ships going through the Panama Canal.

[Towlie]

10. Watching it on vesselfinder.com, no visible sign of it moving yet.

 
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Ever Given on vesselfinder.com

If it moves a significant distance but doesn't get free, I wonder if the unusually low tide that will come in a few hours could get the ship into even more trouble.

[central scrutinizer]

12. Should have been named Ever Clear

Looked like a careening drunk driver in some of the simulations

[Yonnie3]

14. I've been following this on an Egyptian news site.

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/407823/Egypt/Politics-/LIVE-UPDATES-Preparations-to-offload-ship-blocking.aspx

They give brief updates without a bunch of discussion

23:20 The Suez Canal Authority has decided to postpone the re-floating attempt of the Ever Given ship, scheduled to Sunday night, until sufficient tug power is in place, the Suez Canal's service provider Leth Agencies said late on Sunday

The time above is Egyptian which is EDT plus 6.

https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/408005/Egypt/Politics-/UPDATE--Attempt-to-free-Ever-Given-blocking-the-Su.aspx

The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has decided to postpone Sunday's attempt to re-float the Ever Given container ship blocking the canal until sufficient tug power is in place, Suez Canal’s service provider Leth Agencies said.
According to the tide table, the service provider said a likely time for the next attempt is Monday evening.

The high tide, which is favourable for re-floating attempts, occurs every 12 hours. According to Tide Forecast website, the Suez Canal will witness a high tide on Monday at 11:42am Cairo time (GMT+2) and then on Tuesday at 12:08am.
...snip...

[spanone]

16. Full Moon Today!!!

[Iggo]

17. Tide comes in. Tide goes out.

[eppur_se_muova]

20. HA!

Good catch !

[PoliticAverse]

21. You can't explain it! n/t