But it took someone else to ask the question, what if it wasn't an accident?
I can't answer that, but here's a factoid/infogram.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/cargo-shi ... uez-canal/
Cargo ship drew a penis and butt before getting stuck in Suez Canal
By Hannah Frishberg
March 24, 2021 | 2:36pm | Updated
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A satellite handout image released by Planet Labs Inc on March 24, 2021, shows the Taiwan-owned Ever Given lodged sideways -- and the route it took to reach that point. AFP; VesselFinder
Hot dog does this container ship have bad luck.
Before getting itself into a pickle by running aground in the Suez Canal, this unfortunate vessel drew one.
According to nautical tracking service VesselFinder, the massive Ever Given charted a route resemblant of a penis, testicles and an enormous butt in the Red Sea before it became stuck, causing an intercontinental traffic jam in the maritime artery.
As for the possibility that the vessel tracking site somehow conjured the data as a juvenile genital joke, “There is no room for some kind of conspiracies or false data,” a spokesperson for the site told Vice.
“Innocent, but terrible luck,” disinformation researcher John Scott-Railton captioned a tweet of the Ever Given’s watery, x-rated route.
The gigantic ship — which measures in at more than four football fields long and over 440 million pounds — became lodged in the Suez Canal when high winds and a dust storm turned it sideways on Tuesday. Previous to that, it was en route to the Netherlands from China. The way in which the ship became stuck was “the most awkward way possible,” Scott-Railton tweeted.
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In this photo released by the Suez Canal Authority, a boat navigates in front of the cargo ship Ever Given on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, after it become wedged across Egypt’s Suez Canal and blocked all traffic in the vital waterway
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“Ship in front of us ran aground while going through the canal and is now stuck sideways looks like we might be here for a little bit,” a person aboard another ship in the canal captioned an image of the Ever Given.
Multiple attempts to free it by small Egyptian vessels were unsuccessful, but crews were eventually able to partially free it on Wednesday.
UPDATE 2: Suez Canal Blocked by Huge container ship; Video simulation of the controversial trackhttps://t.co/3PXwGMuqdh #EverGiven #SuezCanal #ContainerShip #grounded pic.twitter.com/3QHetlOQxx
— VesselFinder (@VesselFinder) March 24, 2021
While traffic appears to have now resumed, the situation was so bad that many familiar with the waterway feared it would be blocked for days — a major issue as it serves as a vital link between Africa and Asia and the main conduit for roughly 12 percent of global trade.
“After all day trying to refloat the mega container ship ‘Ever Given’, in the Suez Canal, there is a steady log jam of ships waiting in the Mediterranean & Red Sea and in the canal itself,” a sea traffic-follower observed on Tuesday.
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Possibly of note, I keep seeing stories refer to it as the "Ever Given," yet the only picture I've seen looks more like "Evergreen" painted on the side.
Is this just a typo from the many AI software programs now writing news stories that no one has bothered to correct?
I saved a pic on my own domain for posterity.
From: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1219372.shtml