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Saturday, March 27, 2021

How to solve the Suez Crisis (make it quicksand under the ship)

As reference:  

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/suez-crisis-how-one-stuck-container-ship-could-damage-global-economy-181205

I, tonyotag, am NOT a civil engineer or any kind of engineer. This opinion is only on the experience from childhood (playing with a water hose with sand, and a physics class I took in college. Overall, I think the idea expressed below could work. 

Type of soil to work in is Sandy or Silty soils. Clay soil might not work too well with the following method. Loamy or organic matter soil might work well with this method. Just depends on how compact the riverbed/soil/shoreline is. 

Quicksand is sand (or soil) that has just enough liquid so that friction between the grains are reduced or eliminated; thus, allowing a  mass to fall through the liquidly sand and sink. If my preliminary research is correct, the sandy soil and subsoils of the Suez Canal could be used as an advantage rather than a hinderance in freeing the Evergreen ship Ever Given. 

Pipes and tubes could be inserted into the ground under the ship, maybe in a shallow manner, with small holes near the exit of the tubing's. Water pumped into the tubes/pipes then can blast the soil/riverbed into a quicksand like mixture to reduce or eliminate friction of the earth on the ship. Therefore, releasing the ship back into the canal for travel to port. 

The ship should, have tugboats pull the ship back, have reverse thrust engaged. Any method to push the ship from the shore back into the canal should be used as well. 

Water/fluid used is from the canal itself. 

Risks: 

  1. does not work, must dig out ship as currently being done. 
  2. works too well, the ship starts to sink into the shoreline. In this case, the ship should release any ballast; AND the water flow into the pipes should be reduced to increase shoreline/earth friction and support. Worst case, the ship is now further imbedded into the earth, oops. Ballast should be moved to the rear of the ship to make the front of the ship lighter as possible. 
  3. Damage to hull/ship. The ship is damaged by the quicksand, but the ship is still freed; it worked, just move on. the world economy is depending upon it. 


Note on image below for fulcrum point. The fulcrum point is not the point where the ship could sink or rise, it is where the point should be used for lateral pushing or pulling from starboard or port sides of the ship by the tugboats. 









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