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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| ANOTHER vessel ‘runs aground in the Suez canal': Ship ‘is successfully refloated after route was temporarily blocked', local reports claim – following Ever Given grounding in March |
| 2021-09-09 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 'Andrei - you've beached another vessel?' |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-09-09 22:11 |
| #1 Driving a boat in a narrow, shallow channel is one of the more difficult jobs in boat handling. The water 'push' can't spread out, so when it squirts along the hull, it creates suction and pulls you towards the bank. You'd think that the Suez would require tugs (but they don't). |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-09 17:29 |