so its just past midnight eastern time zone and the boat is still being held in the great bitter lake. this is really making my blog boring. let’s all go there and steal the ship together.

Good news everyone! The Ever Given isn't gone; she's been impounded and is being held by Egyptian authorities until her owners pay for the costs and losses caused by the blockage!

You've been visited by the random OC question fairy! :D ~☆

Meme Question (answer privately if you'd like a serious question): How would your OC try to free the Ever Given, the massive cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal (and disrupted 12% of global trade) in early 2021?

How fun! And they probably wouldn't do anything about it at all, just because they find the situation to be far too funny and they don't want to ruin it.

Hit T.V.

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something about the wording and poetry of this hit my soul in weird ways

The fate of the now-famous Ever Given cargo vessel continues to be newsworthy. While the 1300-foot-long container ship has been freed from its sideways grounding in the Suez Canal, it remains in the canal. The reason, you ask? Egyptian authorities say they want the ship's owners to pay a king's ransom to compensate for the week that the canal was shut down.

Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), said on Egyptian state television this week that the country will hold onto the ship while it investigates what happened and until the ship's owner pay $1 billion...

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On board are 25 Indian crew members, and the National Union of Seafarers of India issued a statement that said the SCA and the boat's owners are allowed to investigate, but that these discussions should not create a piracy-like situation.

"If the SCA has suffered losses, they can sort it out with those involved with the ship but that cannot haul up seafarers in any manner," the National Union of Seafarers of India's general secretary told the Times of India.

That’s where it’s been sitting, ever since March 29th: in the Bitter Lake, halfway along the Suez Canal.

mutuals ..... at the end of the day aren't we all just silly containerships stuck in the suez canal together ..... mutuals aren't we?

What adventures await the Evergiven when it settles its tab with Egypt.

(inspired by a recent news article about Gnome shortages).

I suppose it’s time for an update, even if there’s nothing new. Ships still being held in the lake.

April 16, 2021 but almost April 17 it’s like basically midnight.

Playing off brand monopoly. Might fuck around a block the Suez Canal.

It’s kinda sad that the ever given memes died out so quickly, especially since while the boat is unstuck from the banks it’s still very much stuck in the suez canal cause they’re holding it captive. x

The real tragedy wrought by the Ever Given’s accident is still unfolding.

[Description: An image of the Ever Given cargo barge in the distance; the image is tagged “Suez Canal”. The headline beneath it reads “UK facing garden gnome shortage following the Suez Canal fiasco” and I’m here to tell you I bet the author laughed all afternoon after writing it.]

feel like shit just want her back

How we should have dealt with the ship stuck in the Suez Canal 😂

"Calm down, the Sewis ship is not that big"

The Sewis ship:

She has done literally nothing wrong. Free her.