How small tugboats helped free the MV Ever Given from the Suez Canal

Did you know some of the tugboats that helped free the MV Ever Given from the Suez Canal were designed in Vancouver? Their Canadian designers explain how they were able to move a ship more than ten times their size.

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[davisurdaneta]

Nearly 2x as long as the height of CN Tower? The Evergreen is 400M long vs the CN Tower 553 in height. Wrong information!

[MostPowerfulPMofIndia]

We definitely need case studies for the Suez canal and incidents in the canal

[leatrinidad]

MAN HAVE ALREADY SET FOOT ON THE MOON . WHAT IS HARD ON FREEING THAT HUGE SHIP WHERE IT GOT STUCK HUH . KIDS .

[networkedperson]

Interviewer: How are tugboats able to move large vessels?
Interviewee: The tugboats are able to move large vessels.
Me: ...

[druid]

Big canal-sized rubber bumpers, the length of the canal walls!!!
Fixed.

[assessor]

Oooohh....major clangers on the size of the ship versus the CN Tower and on the relative size of the tugs to the ship. Do the math man - not even close.

[elr.]

It has been said the suez canal operators may use more tug boats to help maintain the direction of ships so to lessen the chances of this happening often. If they do some tugboat company is about to make some money with contracts.

[wolfshedler]

i thought these big freighters were GPS computer guided, no chance for errors, unless ????

[ahmedel-rouby]

It is just an adjustment to the tugboat company.
The real reason of re-floating the ship is the drilling surrounding the ship front in the first place then tugboats pushing & pulling..

[poppetrurazvan]

passive ultrasonic cavitation air then twi planes and the currebt wiil do the job alike floating bridge convection ultrasonic rov job

[hr]

Idk I think they should put the boat back

[poppetrurazvan]

active ultrasonic cavitation lift two stering machines theoreticaly works at any deep

[Coreyhkh]

Lol the ships not twice the length of the cn tower.... actually it's smaller 😅

[carloscabrera]

No wonder my Starbucks ran out of oat milk for about a month now, my oat milk was just chilling on that boat ⛴

[rezrobert]

No no no. you should have called Dom and his fast and furious team

[ahmedadel]

Canadian tugboats righ but Egyptian minds thats make evergiven free .u should thanks the Egyptians two

[golgoth]

Big guns Dutch boats did it. Pulling 75% more weight that the cough "Canadian design" tugboats...

[Lonelyhans]

What's that in the canal? It looks like somebody's johnson get over here!!

[williamestey]

cant the reporter read.says evergreen not evergiven