Steve, any advice on how to dislodge the ship blocking the Suez Canal?

How should they free the ship? I think they got it stuck on purpose to boost cable news ratings, but I'm curious how they get this ship freed. Do any of you experts have ideas you want to share?

Pretty simple. Tow it off the grounding with an aircraft carrier.

Ironman

Like 10, 18 wheelers hooked to one side.... Pull at once?

Pictures putting it into perspective are crazy.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Like 10, 18 wheelers hooked to one side.... Pull at once?

Pictures putting it into perspective are crazy.

Do you know how I know you recently watched the movie Convoy?

I don’t think any of you are named steve

Rocinante wrote:I don’t think any of you are named steve

It's open to everybody, Roc. Steve might have read a Tweet so he likely has the best advice, but other posters might have good ideas as well.

Looks like a job for Superman.

What blockage? The canal is the most biggest open canal in our history of all times. That's what I'm hearing. Some say it's the greatest canal that's ever had water.

steveschneider wrote:Looks like a job for Superman.

Not helpful. Be serious.

No idea, but hopefully none of shit is on it. Not totally joking.

Turtleneck wrote:

Rocinante wrote:I don’t think any of you are named steve

It's open to everybody, Roc. Steve might have read a Tweet so he likely has the best advice, but other posters might have good ideas as well.

Oh ok then. I think they should just blow the motherfucker up.

Turtleneck wrote:
Do you know how I know you recently watched the movie Convoy?

Huge Kristofferson fan.



(Not really, only vaguely)

Dump ten tons of uncooked macaroni underneath the hull. Pour in hot water. 8-10 minutes later, that ship will be up and out of there.

Rocinante wrote:

Turtleneck wrote:

It's open to everybody, Roc. Steve might have read a Tweet so he likely has the best advice, but other posters might have good ideas as well.

Oh ok then. I think they should just blow the motherfucker up.

The aircraft carrier could do it that way also.

tGreenWay wrote:


Dump ten tons of uncooked macaroni underneath the hull. Pour in hot water. 8-10 minutes later, that ship will be up and out of there.

I was thinking something along the lines of get a long garden hose, put it in the canal and fill her up. Buoyancy.

Airbags and ping pong balls.

Has anyone thought of maybe training whales? They’re smarter than humans.

https://istheshipstillstuck.com/

I’d like to restate Ironman as the best option. Here is a picture of him saving the Staten Island Ferry.

DWags wrote:Has anyone thought of maybe training whales? They’re smarter than humans.

They’re smarter than some humans, DWags.

Did they consider "Uping" it yet?

balloons.

Get me a rope and plane ticket. I'll pull that bitch out.

Nordic wrote:Get me a rope and plane ticket. I'll pull that bitch out.

This is the only correct answer.

It seems reasonable to point out that Steve was probably the one who got the ship stuck in the first place.

tGreenWay wrote:It seems reasonable to point out that Steve was probably the one who got the ship stuck in the first place.

prolly some funky ass specialty hummus for pantry weighing the boat down or something.

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Like 10, 18 wheelers hooked to one side.... Pull at once?

Pictures putting it into perspective are crazy.

I GOT IT!!! Admittedly I was drunk last night, but I'm sober now. I think, a bit shankey, but Id' say It's a 60% chance I'm sober.

I started watching the movie "The Martian" again last night. They need to send Matt Damon off of mars at an incredible amount of speed. So, they tell him to take everything off of the rocket except the seat he'll be sitting in. I mean, windows, control panels, nuts bolts, widgets toiletries, everything. They were launching him off the planet in a one seat convertable with the top down.

So........... EUREKA! Get your wrenches out you dumb fucks. Everything over the side of the boat. Start with those anchors up there. They have to weigh a couple tons right there. We turn that ship into a shell. We then probably could just push it out with like five or six people.

Thanks. I hope there's a reward or something.

Block off both ends of the canal and pump water into it to raise the water level by a few feet. They might end up flooding half the countryside but at least the ship will be unstuck.

DWags wrote:

AvgMSUJoe wrote:Like 10, 18 wheelers hooked to one side.... Pull at once?

Pictures putting it into perspective are crazy.

I GOT IT!!!  Admittedly I was drunk last night, but I'm sober now.  I think, a bit shankey, but Id' say It's a 60% chance I'm sober.

I started watching the movie "The Martian" again last night.   They need to send Matt Damon off of mars at an incredible amount of speed.  So, they tell him to take everything off of the rocket except the seat he'll be sitting in.  I mean, windows, control panels, nuts bolts, widgets toiletries, everything.  They were launching him off the planet in a one seat convertable with the top down.    

So........... EUREKA!   Get your wrenches out you dumb fucks.  Everything over the side of the boat.  Start with those anchors up there.  They have to weigh a couple tons right there.  We turn that ship into a shell.   We then probably could just push it out with like five or six people.  

Thanks.  I hope there's a reward or something.  

Or they could just take its cargo off - it is fully loaded with nearly 20,000 containers. 

That obvious idea is not easy and the company in charge is reluctant to do so as they say it could unbalance and damage the ship.  Egypt's president has recently ordered them to do it - but no cranes are currently present.  They may use helicopters.

MSU addict wrote:

DWags wrote:


I GOT IT!!!  Admittedly I was drunk last night, but I'm sober now.  I think, a bit shankey, but Id' say It's a 60% chance I'm sober.

I started watching the movie "The Martian" again last night.   They need to send Matt Damon off of mars at an incredible amount of speed.  So, they tell him to take everything off of the rocket except the seat he'll be sitting in.  I mean, windows, control panels, nuts bolts, widgets toiletries, everything.  They were launching him off the planet in a one seat convertable with the top down.    

So........... EUREKA!   Get your wrenches out you dumb fucks.  Everything over the side of the boat.  Start with those anchors up there.  They have to weigh a couple tons right there.  We turn that ship into a shell.   We then probably could just push it out with like five or six people.  

Thanks.  I hope there's a reward or something.  

Or they could just take its cargo off - it is fully loaded with nearly 20,000 containers. 

That obvious idea is not easy and the company in charge is reluctant to do so as they say it could unbalance and damage the ship.  Egypt's president has recently ordered them to do it - but no cranes are currently present.  They may use helicopters.

Dumb asses. Whales balloons Nordic and wrenches. We would be having cocktails by 5 P.M. they don’t want our advice, fuck em.

Saw this news headline and pic on yahoo yesterday.

A Boat Snarled Traffic. No, Not That Boat.



Read the story and realized it was the same Florida county my niece was killed in little over 7 years ago. She was in a van with other students on the way back to Duke after a spring break trip. They were eastbound on I-10 around noon when a drugged-up asshole from Alabama crossed the median and slammed into the side of the van. Others were injured, she was the only one that died.

Looked back at the pic of the boat laying across the lanes. There's now a median barrier for the westbound lanes of I-10 that wasn't there 7 years ago.

Well that post took a turn.

The Pantry wrote:Saw this news headline and pic on yahoo yesterday.

A Boat Snarled Traffic. No, Not That Boat.



Read the story and realized it was the same Florida county my niece was killed in little over 7 years ago. She was in a van with other students on the way back to Duke after a spring break trip. They were eastbound on I-10 around noon when a drugged-up asshole from Alabama crossed the median and slammed into the side of the van. Others were injured, she was the only one that died.

Looked back at the pic of the boat laying across the lanes. There's now a median barrier for the westbound lanes of I-10 that wasn't there 7 years ago.

Geez Pantry, I"m really sorry. Wow.

The Pantry wrote:Saw this news headline and pic on yahoo yesterday.

A Boat Snarled Traffic. No, Not That Boat.



Read the story and realized it was the same Florida county my niece was killed in little over 7 years ago. She was in a van with other students on the way back to Duke after a spring break trip. They were eastbound on I-10 around noon when a drugged-up asshole from Alabama crossed the median and slammed into the side of the van. Others were injured, she was the only one that died.

Looked back at the pic of the boat laying across the lanes. There's now a median barrier for the westbound lanes of I-10 that wasn't there 7 years ago.

I was all ready to laugh and damn that post took a hard turn. Really sorry, Pantry.

DWags wrote:

Floated my boat w beer.

DWags wrote:

Bet that dude in the big Tonka Toy never stops thinking what would happen if that boat tips over on him.

I wonder if they are letting people off the boat so they can get some r&r.