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praise be.....

..and what was quite a big factor in the ship moving?

"The efforts of engineers and tug boat crews were helped enormously by an unusually high tide."

:-D :-D :-D

Was the global economy saved by a full moon?

Are there enough beads on your abacus. ;-)

Using my reliable Calculus, I'm working out the lost revenue worldwide from this debacle. :-0

:-D

Great BITTER Lake, methinks....

How did they get it overland to Utah so quickly?

It is now free and anchored in the Great Salt Lake whilst they check it over.
Edit: Bitter Lake, not Salt Lake
Alp Guard and an Egyptian tug are close by (from www.marinetraffic.com).

It may be the angle at that particular second I watched on television, and it was a fleeting glimpse, but it looked to me that it was listing to port-side ever so slightly.

When they check it out, I hope I am wrong.

And we are off!

:-D all round

Changed in the last half hour. You can watch it live :-D :-D :-D

One step forward, two steps back. Winds have swung the ship back across the canal.

Yes I Did. Where do you think someone else got the name from.

I had mentioned them because they appeared to being left out of the ‘list’ of kinvolved parties.

I'm sure you mentioned SMIT on the other thread, nameslesson

So it appears the Egyptian Government had the 'nous' to get in outside help when they realised the size of the problem, and that they'd need powerful equipment - who'd a thunk it!

Especially when self appointed 'experts' were deriding them and any other Egyptian.

This equipment, would, of course take a few days to get there, hence the delay.



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Seems there are still problems with the bow being still stuck.

So SMIT, the Red Adair of the salvage world, IS involved. You wouldn’t know that from the other thread!

Sorry Joylouise, I didn't see that not a thread I have been reading. No problem people can read either thread,

Hoping the divers don't find any problems. Especially with the bow as there were reports that there were rocks where it stuck.

Saw this earlier this morning, Ann, and I posted just after 7 am on the thread entitled, The Last Time.

Now for the divers to get to work - more especially because one newspaper earlier reported that it looked as though the vessel was sagging in the middle. :-0

The massive container ship blocking the Suez Canal was straightened and partially refloated early today nearly a week after it ran aground on the vital shipping route and brought billions of dollars' worth of trade to a standstill.

Egyptian canal authorities said the 220,000-ton Ever Given had been turned '80 per cent in the right direction' after the stern of the vessel was shifted with 'pulling manouevres' that moved it 335ft from the shore.

Satellite data from VesselFinder early this morning showed the straightened container ship surrounded by a squadron of tugboats with its stern no longer appearing to block the entire shipping route.

But it remained unclear how long it would take to fully re-open the canal, where hundreds of ships are waiting in a massive traffic jam with £6.5billion of global trade being held up each day.

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