pyrojames
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Except when transiting the Straights of Messina!
Suez blocked.
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penfold
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TBH dodging the loonies with harpoons is more challenging than the tide, spectacular as it is to watch.
Clancy Moped
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Sorted.
Kukri
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The promised American help
mjcoon
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Ah, supposedly "WD" stands for "water displacement"; just what is required! Genius! Ingenuous! Parting of the Red Sea, leaving boats aground...
Kukri
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Leth Agencies (the biggest Suez Canal agents) Tweeted last night that the SCA have successfully freed the stern, and that the ship has moved a bit, but this hasn’t been confirmed.
wombat88
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Was it Warspite or Vanguard that got stuck in the entrance to Portsmouth?
Stork_III
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Just wiggle it a bit and the bow will come free.
Giblets
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Kukri
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And here’s a picture that hasn’t been used as an Internet meme.
Remember this?
Hilarious!
“What do those silly Egyptians think they are going to achieve with that?”
Well, what they were doing was improving the shining hour by cutting a space for this, which was staging down from Ismailia, the SCA HQ, to get to work.
It’s the “Mahsour”, the world’s biggest cutter dredger.
Remember this?
Hilarious!
“What do those silly Egyptians think they are going to achieve with that?”
Well, what they were doing was improving the shining hour by cutting a space for this, which was staging down from Ismailia, the SCA HQ, to get to work.
It’s the “Mahsour”, the world’s biggest cutter dredger.
michael_w
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A video of how a cutter dredger works.
Gary Fox
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They don't have much luck...
Easticks28
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They orta get th'ole quant pole out ! Thass what we do in Norfolk 
mjcoon
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Excellent! So the next catastrophe will be when the dredger cuts a hole in the hull and lets water in, adding ballast...
Kukri
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You haven’t lived until you have shared a floating dock with a bucket dredger with a WW2 USAF 500 pounder stuck in a bucket.
Adios
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Take the ship away and replace it with any section of coned off UK motorway. 3 blokes standing around next to a silent excavator making the job last as long as possible.
Adios
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I haven't read all 16 pages but anyone have info on why they don't rig something up on land to pull rather than tugs in the water? I imagine the sandy soil isn't ideal to get anchored but you'd think it would be tried. Could the ships anchor windlasses be employed? They must have some torque to them. Get enough pulleys involved and these Egyptians can build a pyramid apparently though they may have got out of practice.
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anoccasionalyachtsman
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Someone did suggest digging, reinforcement and concrete, and on the face of it it's a good plan. I suspect that knowing where to put it/them for an initial pull isn't that hard, but once it's moved a bit you might need to start again. I suspect that getting units of upwards of maybe 10,000hp exactly where you want it is simpler.
newtothis
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To be fair to the Egyptians, they managed to build a 70km extension channel in about a year. Unfortunately, it is on the other side of the Great Bitter Lake.
I'd love to see a project of that size done in the UK. They'd still be planning what biscuits to have at the meeting to decide when to have the planning meeting.
JumbleDuck
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Is that how the width and depth of the canal have been increased so much over the years