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I gotta wonder, looking at the sloping side profile of the canal and at how the ship looks to have its above water-bits wedged at the water surface, how crushed did the ship's bulbous underwater nose bit (technical term -Balze, Jimmy help a brother out here? ) wind up getting when the ship wedged. Is it likely to have stayed water tight?

Bulbous bow is the term you're looking for. It is an incredibly strong part of the hull. No idea whether it would have stayed water tight or not.

Wouldn't there be watertight bulkheads if the bulbous bow got damaged? I imagine the forces on the bow are substantial with that great of weight even running aground on a soft bottom.

Yes, a ship like this will have many watertight bulkheads......probably 8-12 of them.

Interesting overhead view

More progress:

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Interesting overhead view

Why does one side look like lush farmland and one side is desert?

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Why does one side look like lush farmland and one side is desert?

Because one side is farmland and the other is desert.

There are lush green residential areas within sight of the Giza pyramids, too. It's weird looking.

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Why does one side look like lush farmland and one side is desert?

Because one side is farmland and the other is desert.

Pretty much. The Sinai desert in fact.

The magic of irrigation. I remember flying into Phoenix once about 25 years ago. The residential areas on the outskirts were all tan, with an oval shaped patch of green behind each house. And about every other green patch had a blue rectangle in the middle of it. It was weird looking too.

BBC reports if they can't re-float it then they may have to unload it, blocking the canal for weeks.

Price of oil has jumped 4 points in the last few days, I'm guessing with the pipeline shutdown, this will help jump start crude prices, heck it would make you think the captain has bought futures in Crude, block the straights for a week or two, block crude oil, gas shipments worldwide, and presto chango - make a few cool millions....

Some good photos and satellite images linked at this story on WFMZ.com, a regional news station here in Pennsyltucky.

Is there a current through the canal?

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Some good photos and satellite images linked at this story on WFMZ.com, a regional news station here in Pennsyltucky.

They need a few more pictures of Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei, the head of the canal authority,

Maybe use giant high pressure water jets to erode the sand where it's aground?

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Maybe use giant high pressure water jets to erode the sand where it's aground?

That was my thought as the Egyptians used against the Israeli sand wall during the 1973 war.

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Maybe use giant high pressure water jets to erode the sand where it's aground?

I was thinking that also. My brother made his boathouse well deeper with a powerful pressure washer. Surprisingly, it was more effective if the wand was held above the surface instead of below.

Why can't they just get Chuck Norris to move it for them?

Here is time-lapse capture of the course plot that resulted in a you-know-the thing getting depicted as shown in several posts up-thread -

Controversial Track (yootoob)

I am guessing that this is not a typical ‘holding pattern’ of a 1,300 foot vessel in relatively tight and busy areas.

Interesting insight...

Do these ships have data control recorders that would log throttle position and rudder movement?

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Do these ships have data control recorders that would log throttle position and rudder movement?

Voyage Data Recorders, yes.