Superbreaking!: Navigation in the Suez Canal has been halted after a ship ran aground. (Confirmed)

Deja Vu all over again!

Yeah. the timing. eek.

SUPER BREAKING

No other sources yet.

I changed the title.

LOL

What the trial run was for.

It is the Affinity V.

Aground near the south end of the canal.

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No wind.
Singapore flagged.

Last Edited by Doctor Congo on 08/31/2022 06:51 PM

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Hey Al Gore said the sea was to be 10 foot higher but yet ships still getting stuck in the canals.

How so Al...

It is almost 1 am in the morning there.

pitch dark, no wind, Canal captain at the helm.
Someone is in trouble.
There are around 6 huge tugboats trying to drag this thing off the bank.

Sounds like canal captain fucked up...but who knows?

Early yet.

Other news outlets (about 6) are confirming.

With the Suez clogged, hard to send ships to say...the Persian Gulf right at the moment.

Hmmm...

they should offload and float it up...
cant just jerk on it...

Takes time to offload.

They probably want a quick fix if they can.

did they 'draw' the ding dong thingy again?

test

What is the cargo?

On purpose perhaps?

That was my first thought lol,

I was about to ask the same thing...

Way easier to unstick than the last time.

Just pump off the oil till she floats.

A day or 2 maybe?

According to ship monitoring service TankerTrackers, the Aframax tanker Affinity V seemed to have lost control in the Suez Canal while heading southbound.

Flog him!!!

Oh, sorry, I only looked at the first tweet. Crude oil? From where and going to where?

Gordon Chang is saying we might be about to go to war with China. That would definitely slow us down getting any ships we have in the Med to the fight.

already refloated.

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"An Egyptian official says an oil tanker has run aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal, briefly blocking the global waterway. George Safwat, a spokesman for Suez Canal Authority, says Singaporean-flagged Affinity V vessel has become wedged in a single-lane stretch of the canal on Wednesday. He told a government-affiliated Extra News satellite television that the authority that operates the canal deployed tugboats and managed to refloat the vessel."

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Last Edited by JustmeTX on 08/31/2022 07:38 PM

And a little WD40 if she's still stuck.