The Country Made from 14 Stranded Ships

The cargo ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal cost the world billions of dollars. But did you know how this man made canal trapped 14 cargo ships, getting stuck in a lake for 8 whole years, surrounded by 750,000 deadly explosive mines, causing the longest traffic jam in sea shipping history? Let’s get into it!

Sources:

[Evergreen’s MV Ever Given Stuck in the Suez Canal]

[Suez Canal History]

[The Yellow Fleet - How 14 Ships Got Stuck for 8 Years]

[How the Ever Given Was Freed]

[Sunken Costs]

[Other Sources]

[Brew’s intro song]
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[ilikechill]

Homies! I made a new lofi gaming mix 🤠

Also, great video Brew! See you in the next one! 😉

[ordinary_magician]

They should’ve tried turning the ship off and on again

[Dtr]

Just imagine all those Nvidia graphics cards on that ship just stuck there waiting for scalpers to buy

[GamePlague]

Imagine spending 10% of your life randomly stuck on a ship in a lake with no idea when you can leave

[ThatBeePerson]

I love imagining just the sheer amount of patriotism and snark from the German ships when they were the only ones functional enough to leave on their own (Obviously in a friendly sort of way). I also wonder how many of the crew of the yellow fleet kept in touch with one another after they escaped.

[criticallol]

Bro imagine how the captian felt after he saw the memes

[fortunateson]

We need a blockbuster about the Yellow Fleet, it sounds incredible.

[johnwhite]

11:12 The Suez provides its own pilots for navigating the canal so the Evergiven's crew is not wholly responsible. It makes the whole impounding situation a bit more interesting.

[arcadiaberger]

"Yellow Fleet" is also an old British term for a mythical division of the Royal Navy to which officers not needed for active duty were "attached".

[Jessie_Helms]

_I NEED to hear yellow-fleet-related sea shanties now_

[johnclement]

Its like a typical city in a fallout universe where they made a community or city in some old ship, stadium or buildings.

[BigBushWookie]

We gotta petition to rename “EVERGIVEN” to “EVERSTUCK”

[dreaminginjapan]

Incredible that a canal can be so important but they never even thought about making it bigger...until AFTER a ship got stuck

[Kiwi]

This story is not told entirely though. This video makes it sound like the all the crews got stuck there for 8 years, but in reality, they were regularly going home and switching with other crews:
"In the following weeks and months, the shipping companies endeavored to obtain permission to bring their crews home, while the United Nations carried on continuous negotiations to reopen the canal. After three months a compromise was finally reached. The Egyptians refused to reopen the Suez Canal, but allowed the crews that had been trapped on-board the 14 ships to leave and be replaced by other personnel. The men were pleased to go home but, in time, several of them returned to the canal for another tour of duty."

[ferminfernandez]

brew you thought i wouldn't notice that the animation is smoother

[gnomish]

Fun fact -- blaming the skipper for your missing goods would be silly. Any ship passing through the Suez Canal needs at least one canal pilot onboard. The pilot(s) will come aboard, and knowing the intricacies of the waterways, will basically take control of the ship and steer it through an area for you, then hop off once they're done. SCA had 2 pilots aboard the Evergiven and were responsible for navigating her safely through the canal. Their lovely drawing was made while they were waiting for the pilot boat to get to them so they could go through.

[Mildewpants]

THIS is what I want to see from Brew. Nothing cringy or toooo click-baity, just a cool thing explained in a way that entertains and relaxes :)

[shsz]

6:13 to 9:14 The whole story was quite interesting, and sounded like it could be an amazing "based on true events" type of movie.

[tr]

You neglected to mention that the Evergiven's crew also have been impounded with the ship and cannot leave until the legal matter has resolved. News reports say that they are still being taken care of.

[sebby]

That 14 ship micro state is actually really cool I hope the crews from it still have contact with each other