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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
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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.
jellybaby
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.