turbobear's soup 

Ok, so theres like 14 tugboats working on the Ever Given now and the tide is coming in. They MIGHT be able to refloat her today.

As a hilarious side note, THIS apparently happened on a highway in china this morning, which SEEMS like a joke but is apparently real:

https://www.unilad.co.uk/viral/evergreen-truck-blocks-chinese-motorway-just-days-after-evergreen-ship-jams-suez-canal/

Evergreen Truck Blocks Chinese Motorway Just Days After Evergreen Ship Jams Suez Canal

The word "Evergreen" will likely now be forever associated with chaos, after a truck carrying one of the company's shipping containers...

 

fandomsandfeminism

Mar 27

Thank you for a source!

Update on the Ever Given: between the tides and the tugboats, she was straightened out by like...30 meters. The tide has gone back out, so she's not gonna be free TODAY it seems, but they are making progress.

fandomsandfeminism

Mar 27

To answer some questions that have come up in the notes:

1. Ever Given is the ship; Evergreen is the company. Yes, that's confusing

2. Yes, it's the same Evergreen that owns the shipping container on the truck (but not the truck itself, I think.)

3. It is also the same Evergreen that has a ship, the Ever Laurel, that spilled thousands of rubber ducks into the ocean in 1992.

that spilled thousands of rubber ducks into the ocean in 1992.

What connects the 'Ever Given', the Suez Canal, and 7,200 rubber ducks loose in the Pacific?

Both ships were reportedly chartered by the same company

 

fandomsandfeminism

Mar 28

3/28/2021 It is Sunday morning. They are going to try again today to dislodge the Ever Given with the tides/tug boats.

fandomsandfeminism

Mar 28

Sunday evening: still stuck.

Maybe tomorrow evening? 

fandomsandfeminism

Mar 28

 

With 17 tugboats helping her - the Ever Given has been refloated and is straightening out! It looks like she did it, y'all. She's moving!

 

fandomsandfeminism

Mar 29 8:50 AM

Friends. I am so sorry. It is 8am Monday and...we may have celebrated prematurely???

 

She...she might still be stuck? Or be re-stuck? It's a little unclear at this point. 

fandomsandfeminism

Mar 29 9:30 AM

8:30 Monday update!!!

 

 

 

 

I think it's for real this time. I think she's free. 

merelygifted

If'n Ah may be allowed to quote mah friend Langan from Lou-a-vulle, Kintecky, "WOO HOO!"