What Really Happened at the Suez Canal?

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That picture of the excavator digging out the ship is actually really inspiring, depending on how you look at it

Hey, Shipping Analyst here The "finger trap" was spot on and something not mentioned in the Stirling Salvage lecture with Flexport. One extra thing of note: If you look at the bathymetric maps you can see that only the eastern half of the canal is deep enough to support cargo ship operations, the other half of the canal is for tenders and smaller vehicles. So the suction effect was very pronounced because the actual useable canal volume was much smaller. Overall 10/10, very simple and gets down to the heart of the issue. I'm glad to see people are paying attention to maritime infrastructure, despite the fact that it has a huge impact on our lives most people don't know all that much about it. Stuff like the container crunch and everything else influencing global shipping sorta goes unnoticed usually.

That excavator really puts the size of the ship into view

1970s; we need a bigger boat. 2020s; the boats too big.

10 minutes with Grady was clearer than 2 weeks of coverage on tv. You're the best, sir!

The world needs guys like this, just most aren't as publicly articulate and pleasant.

"luckily, I have an acrylic flume in my garage"... if I had a nickel every time I heard that one...

I have been on the helm of a ship that started to experience bank suction. It’s the strangest feeling. You start to go sideways and steering away from the bank only puts your prop and rudder closer to the side. All you can do is slow down to reduce the squat and ease it away. But if it happens near a bend, game over. You need a lot of distance to overcome it

The inability to overcome pull-out force is the primary reason I’m now a father of three.

It was nice of the Moon to give a hand in removing the ship. Thank you, Moon :p

The biggest thing I learned about this disaster was that the Suez Canal is literally just a hole cut into the desert. I had thought it at least had a concrete basin or something to protect the soil/sand from erosion.

Can you imagine being the first ship to be sent back through the canal after the Ever Given was finally unstuck? The amount of pressure on not having the exact same thing happen a second time must have been absolutely crushing for the navigators.

Another great coverage of the engineering aspects of a current topic. Thanks Grady!

The bank effect was the first thing my 82 year old dad said when he learned what happened to the Ever Given. He used to be a skipper on a small freight vessel sailing the sea, lakes and canals around Sweden in the 50's and 60's.

“Disability to resist pull-out” I understand that part of the video

I was stuck in the convoy behind the evergiven for almost two weeks. This explains a lot but the only false piece off information you gave was about the pilots. They have very little special knowledge and are often only there to exploit their position of power to gain “bribes” of cigarettes money and other goods

Your videos on current topics are an awesome extension to your "regular" content!!

This type of content is what makes YouTube a great platform.

Hey Grady, just want to say thank you for your videos. I'm not an engineer and I haven't studied advanced math or physics etc. Nonetheless, I love finding out about infrastructure, hydraulics and what makes this modern world of ours tick There's always an " ah " moment watching these videos. So keep up the good work - from one layman to an expert. Good on ya mate!