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Well, that's reassuring, then.

According to what I've just seen on adsbexchange, the helicopters are military rather than polis.

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One went over in E5 just now, too, but it looked as if it was going to Camden rather than Blackheath.

Both aircraft currently heading NE over Witham.
My money is on Wattisham.

At least one helicopter was G-DCPB which says POLICE in big letters down the side.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=406100

It is mostly black in a slightly militaristic way. When I was a lad police helicopters were white.

Apparently the Met helicopters (NPAS) have moved from Lippitts Hill to North Weald which is fantastic news for people camping at Suntrap.

I was wrong about Wattisham. They flew straight past it and continued NE beyond Needham Market.
ETA - Correction - they've circled and returned to Wattisham.

Wattisham

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c26e perhaps?

Although it flew over London it didn't seem to hang around over Blackheath.

UKP037 is (https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=404a2e)

All of which seems like fair play.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/25/police-retract-claims-that-officers-suffered-broken-bones-at-bristol-protest

Finally some good news for the UK. I’ve been pretty bummed recently (this country is being screwed, most people are clueless and letting it happen etc), but this really lifted my day. Also cool there's a puzzle attached to it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/25/gchq-releases-most-difficult-puzzle-ever-in-honour-of-alan-turing

I would be very surprised if that £1M was 'new money'.

A common trick in crowd based fund-raising is to have what appears to be a 'serious institutional investor' put down £250k or whatever a large chink of the number is as bait to harvest a load of smaller investors. The big investor is on a deal where they get their money back from the investment round at +10% in 8 weeks. Mad APR if you work it out that way and pretty low-risk when you think about this prick's reach and following and his ability to convince 000's of people to invest £20 based on the optics of some big fish investing £250k.

Some of these new ways of fund-raising are a total racket and at some point they'll be exposed for the fraud they are.

Ah, that's how it 'works'. Cheers.

Hah, that video also confirms something the Maersk Denver have claimed... that the Ever Given queue jumped to rush into the canal.

Not that I think this really is the problem... I do believe it was wind. Rudders only work on ships when they're moving at reasonable speed against the water, the only steering on a large ship are the rudders, and they're tiny... and the height of these things, unless they are tugged on the canal then wind can and will move them, and ships don't come to a stop easily.

Is your child texting about the Suez Canal boat?

BRB - Bow Really Bulbous

LOL - Lack Of Leeway

CBA - Canal Blocked, Asshole

LMFAO - Lol, Mother Fucker Aground, Oh!

BYOB - Boat Yeeted On Bank

WTF - What The Frigate

BTW - Boat Totally Wasted

https://twitter.com/hansmollman/status/1375373896598315008

HTFU - Heavy Tugboats F****** Useless

Reminds me of this story / podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/michael-mastromarino/id1441182923?i=1000478638695

"A former dentist changed careers and opened a business that supplied human biological products to tissue banks. Disease screens, family consent, and proper refrigeration of cadavers are all steps he decided to omit."

the only steering on a large ship are the rudders

And a couple of fuck off bow thrusters

Ever Given has two 2,500 kW (3,400 hp) bow thrusters.

It's spreading. Who let M Night Shyamalan write the script?

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This FT article goes into lots of details about the possible causes, not just as simple as "a gust of wind".

https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d3c1

(Google for "ft article suez" and it's one of the first links, if you don't click on the cookie preferences you can read the entire article.)

Here's an interesting article that suggests it could have been more than just wind. Suggests as ships get bigger the dynamics around how the water flows in narrow/shallow channels gets a bit weird : https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d3c1

the dynamics around how the water flows in narrow/shallow channels gets a bit weird

Last summer I captained a long narrow boat in a shallow canal and at one point did the same thing as the Ever Given. Having read that article I now think it was a result of the hydrodynamics and not me being useless.

Fortunately my hire boat came with a long pole I could shove against the bank. Not supplying one on container ships seems a mistake.

Seems amazing that they have failed to get a long pole on-site so far really.

I just never realised how many cargo-shipping experts there were on the forum, it's really quite impressive.

Well hang around there will be a whole load more by tomorrow.