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		cricalix on March 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is that ship still stuck? Sane answer: No. The ship is 400 metres / 0.25 of a mile long. With containers, it weighs anywhere up to 199 thousand tons. One does not simply attach a few hundred cables, put some rollers under it, and pull with all the tractors you can find in Egypt. Also, it's already in the water. It's just turned sideways and buried the bulb (by the looks) into the canal wall.

PeterisP on March 26, 2021 | [–]

Since the sides of the channel are much more shallow than the middle, it's not floating in the water as both ends of the ship are stuck on the bottom.

imtringued on March 26, 2021 | [–]

Is it possible to weld a large steel wire onto the ship and use some sort of explosive to pull it out of the sand?

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