It shouldn’t come as a shocker that the people trying to remedy this are fucktarded and have no idea what actually is happening. Has anyone here ever got a car stuck? Then thought, “It’s only a little stuck”. When in reality the bulk of the car’s weight is sitting on the ground via the frame. Same general principle here. This is like using a teaspoon to dig out your car. The bulk of the weight of that ship is resting across a lot of earth, you can’t even reach. A LOT.
How to you fix this? It’s multifaceted. The ship needs to use its water buoyancy to lift itself off the ground. So the canal needs to be dyked and flooded locally, while offloading as much weight as possible, from freight to fuel to bilges, all which need vessels to capture all of that. Another system that can be employed is multiple stabilization winches anchored to land to gently tug on opposite ends to line it back up, so it doesn’t keep running aground durning the process. The shipping company can get me my $50K consultation fee at anytime.
Given the picture, it looks like the ship drove aground onto the side of the canal... that really complicates the recovery.
Just eye-balling, but they may need to raise the immediate water level by 7-8 ft. That is a lot of water. A temp coffer dam with that type of span and height is gonna take longer to install than just waiting for the proper dredge equipment.
Well, that is the “clean” way to do it. Technically, you could run water cannons/jets from the ship, tugs, auxiliary land based pumps, to rapidly erode the ground its on, just to break the ship free, but that does significant damage that would take months to properly repair and shore the canal back up. Which is probably what will ultimately happen.
I don't know if you've ever dealt with 3rd world earth moving... I suspect that at the moment the local government/authority is demanding $$$ for a study of how best to create a minimal coffer dam without disturbing the delicate ecology of the canal.
They will dick around with a half assed dam, and then somehow come up and allow your water jet/pump approach after a couple of months. The removal of the useless dam will take longer than the previous dickery by at least a month.
Yeah, when you view it through a third world lens, local governments will funnel cash directly into their pockets and dick around sending people with shovels and rope pretending to do something.
Anywho, what’s the over/under on how many local laborers drowning, because they can’t swim? While trying to free the ship and accidentally falling into the canal?
It shouldn’t come as a shocker that the people trying to remedy this are fucktarded and have no idea what actually is happening. Has anyone here ever got a car stuck? Then thought, “It’s only a little stuck”. When in reality the bulk of the car’s weight is sitting on the ground via the frame. Same general principle here. This is like using a teaspoon to dig out your car. The bulk of the weight of that ship is resting across a lot of earth, you can’t even reach. A LOT.
How to you fix this? It’s multifaceted. The ship needs to use its water buoyancy to lift itself off the ground. So the canal needs to be dyked and flooded locally, while offloading as much weight as possible, from freight to fuel to bilges, all which need vessels to capture all of that. Another system that can be employed is multiple stabilization winches anchored to land to gently tug on opposite ends to line it back up, so it doesn’t keep running aground durning the process. The shipping company can get me my $50K consultation fee at anytime.
No man, crank the steering wheel the other way and floor it!
Given the picture, it looks like the ship drove aground onto the side of the canal... that really complicates the recovery.
Just eye-balling, but they may need to raise the immediate water level by 7-8 ft. That is a lot of water. A temp coffer dam with that type of span and height is gonna take longer to install than just waiting for the proper dredge equipment.
Well, that is the “clean” way to do it. Technically, you could run water cannons/jets from the ship, tugs, auxiliary land based pumps, to rapidly erode the ground its on, just to break the ship free, but that does significant damage that would take months to properly repair and shore the canal back up. Which is probably what will ultimately happen.
I don't know if you've ever dealt with 3rd world earth moving... I suspect that at the moment the local government/authority is demanding $$$ for a study of how best to create a minimal coffer dam without disturbing the delicate ecology of the canal.
They will dick around with a half assed dam, and then somehow come up and allow your water jet/pump approach after a couple of months. The removal of the useless dam will take longer than the previous dickery by at least a month.
Yeah, when you view it through a third world lens, local governments will funnel cash directly into their pockets and dick around sending people with shovels and rope pretending to do something.
Anywho, what’s the over/under on how many local laborers drowning, because they can’t swim? While trying to free the ship and accidentally falling into the canal?