Releasing Container Ship From Suez Canal Could Capsize It
SHIFTING SANDS
Salvage workers are trying to calculate how to keep the massive top-heavy vessel the size of the Empire State Building from tipping over while they free it from the shifting sands.
While the global shipping industry bleeds $400 million each hour the massive Ever Given container ship stays stuck in the sand of the Suez Canal, an elite salvage team on the ground in Egypt is facing an entirely different problem: How do you make a top-heavy ship stuck in shifting...
