How did a ship get stuck in the Suez Canal?

The Suez Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, accounting for almost 12 percent of all global trade, but for 6 days it was blocked by a sky-scraper-sized container ship.

For almost a week the Ever Given was lodge into the size of the Canal blocking all trade ships traveling in or out, meaning hundreds of ships had to either wait in the port, or make a long and costly journey around the coast of Africa.

How did this happen? and what is the extent of the damage done?

So "How did a ship get stuck in the Suez Canal?"
- it's long
- it was windy
- we don't know
There, saved you 4:38...

[pro-techelectrodavidgagne-]

Co-pilot: " I bet 1000$ that you are not able to do a 360' in the canal "
Pilot: " Hold my beer! "

[beeble]

Kudos for heart-ing my comment on the original version of this pointing out an error, and for uploading a corrected version so fast. That's quality.

[Brock-Lesnar-WWE]

This will be a history lesson in 30 years

[MrLightstudios]

Can someone explain why all the media outlets call it the Evergiven when it literally has EverGreen written on it?

[jamaisvu]

Funny how this whole suez canal fiasco interests me more than my math lesson and reviewing about my exam tomorrow😭💀

[richard]

The wind and reduced visibility are not unusual in the Suez Canal and none of the other ships grounded themselves on that day. Most likely, the VDR data will show that the vessel was experiencing "bank effect", or "bank suction" from the port side. It is a well documented phenomena where the stern is sucked towards the near bank causing the bow to swing in the opposite direction. As vessels have increased in size it has caused a number of "minor" incidents previously and it has been incorporated in simulator training for some time. It is essential to recognise the clear signs of bank effect in order to remedy it correctly, i.e. a significant difference between course steered and course made good, so that the vessel adopts an attitude slightly diagonal in the canal, and a significant amount of permanent helm required to maintain a steady course (15° or more towards the near bank astern). The condition must be eliminated by reducing speed until the bank effect stops. Attempts to regain proper steerage by increasing speed will aggravate the bank effect situation and and cause the stern to move even closer to the near bank and consequently the bow will swing in the opposite direction, in this case starboard. Since the vessel is essentially now very diagonal in the canal, once the bow grounds, it's game over.

[BadguyGords]

9B per day? probably warrants spending 100B widening the canal a bit tbh.
Mind you the real issue is navigating a 200, 000-tonne ship during a sandstorm, sounds like it would be in everyone's future interest to enforce parking up for a half-day and waiting for the storm to pass rather than getting beached for a week.

[Moonrakerd]

I wonder if they built it as a 400meter ship and then bashed the extra length with a hammer :D

[stationsixtyseven]

Big ships get stuck in the Suez Canal when they are piloted into the side of it.

[dmomcilovic]

Apparently sea levels are rising, so no problem in future

[kimanhtran]

Is FBI investigate what they got in the ship?? Human sex trafficking?? Drugs??

[kerryfoster]

I am amazed that no one had ever anticipated such an event and put in place a contingency plan. Just because it hadn't happened doesn't mean it won't. The way you avoid disaster is to see it with foresight.
Makes me wonder what other disasters are in the pipeline 😲😲😲

[kentogo]

According to the Japanese ship-owning company, M/V ”EVER GIVEN" is carrying about 18, 000 containers (20-foot equivalent), which is close to a full load, and the total weight of the cargo reaches about 167, 600 tons (, equivalent to more than twice the displacement of HMS Queen Elizabeth).
The strong winds at 74 km/h was enough to sweep away "EVER GIVEN" ?

[Cypher]

So here is a breakdown of how this ship got the ship is big... the canal is less big... and it got stuck ☝️😳

[iainwalker]

I posted the following on their original video - "At 0:40 seconds into video states a 7800 mile journey to go round Africa and compares at 1:00 to 7150 miles via Suez canal. Looking at the two routes shown on their map it is clear they had at least one of the distances wrong as the line going round the south of Africa is clearly more than 10 percent longer that the Suez canal route. a couple minutes using the ruler tool on google earth I agree with the Suez trip length but round the south of Africa is clearly over 12000 miles."

I am glad the Independent have reuploaded a corrected version of the video, but how can you expect people to believe your content when you don't bother checking such basic things.

[theresasmith]

It was done on
No vessel can go through the canal without them knowing the ship size, weight

[redmed]

My god a story affecting the whole world and no conspiracy theories. Come on you lot.

[faithlesshound]

The Suez canal opened in 1869 was not the first link between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Canals were dug between the Nile and the Red Sea as long ago as the 19th century BC. They tended to silt up, and the Red Sea had receded, so there had been no link for over two centuries before the current canal was dug.

[NhiNguyen-tjco]

Company: what can we do to maximise our capacity?
Ship-builder: there is a limit of 400m
Company: let's cut it by 6cm, it would be fine
....