Whats going on in the World

[Scupper]

slow escalation

Iran mines/damages 4 ships - someone burns 4 Iranian vessels in Iranian ports - two tankers are reportedly torpedoed & "the wheels on the bus go round and round - round and round"

Death to Israel , Death to America chants the population of Iran ........

 

[wader]

Death to Israel , Death to America chants the population of Iran ........

tell us something we all don't already know...

 

[JackPrintMD]

all we are saying, “ is give peace a chance”.

Or,,, we should blow them into oblivion.

?

 

[ShadyGrady]

"..........and one day we will seek high ground for those that choose to remain will be swallowed up by the evil that awaits us "

One whoppin helluva mess brewin out there , for sure !

 

[wader]

Another American Dies in the Dominican Republic: Leyla Cox, 53, Found Dead in Hotel Room

 

[MOJOE]

something fishy is going on,,, the mini bars mite be spiked,, what a shame ,, your not safe anywhere wader,, F.B.I checking the whole thing out,,, ><))):<
><))):<

 

[JackPrintMD]

Florida Man Dances Naked In Mamaroneck, Gets Arrested: VIDEO

Police had to use a stun gun on the man when he became unruly.

patch.com

 

[MOJOE]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ><))):>Florida Man Dances Naked In Mamaroneck, Gets Arrested: VIDEO
><))):>

 

[jpd]

Florida Man Dances Naked In Mamaroneck, Gets Arrested: VIDEO

Police had to use a stun gun on the man when he became unruly.

patch.com

LOL, I know where that is...must have been funny to be there

 

[BennyV]

something fishy is going on,,, the mini bars mite be spiked,, what a shame ,, your not safe anywhere wader,, F.B.I checking the whole thing out,,, ><))):<
><))):<

Alcohol bootlegging is all the rage down there. Hotel workers take the real stuff, swap it out with the crappy bootlegged booze, then they sell the real stuff.

 

[cany]

Suspected shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola was Saudi Air Force member

Saudi Arabia is "going to owe a debt here given that it was one of their individuals," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said. "The government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims."

www.nbcnews.com

 

[WhatKnot]

WTF is going on?

 

[cany]

An American woman in Italy has advice for life under countrywide quarantine: Follow the rules | CNN

In northern Italy, life is very difficult right now. In a country where there have been more than 17,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, staying at home but for a solo trip to the store is the way of life.

www.cnn.com

 

[cany]

Giant cargo ship stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal could take 'weeks' to free​

 

[Roccus7]

Giant cargo ship stuck in Egypt's Suez Canal could take 'weeks' to free​

 

[cany]

That back hoe looks like a toy

 

[Roccus7]

That back hoe looks like a toy

Compared to that ship it is!! The bow bulb is bigger than it!!

 

[pequa1]

Good thing all our goods come through Kalifornia from the chicoms !

 

[Roccus7]

Talk about a Fluster Cluck!!​

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Tugboats and dredgers vs. one very heavy ‘beached whale.’​

Two tugboats beside the Ever Given in the Suez Canal on Thursday. Credit...Suez Canal Authority

An armada of tugboats, their engines churning with the combined power of tens of thousands of horses, has been pushing and pulling at the Ever Given for days.

Cranes, looking like playthings in the shadow of the hulking cargo ship, have been scooping mountains of earth from the area around where the ship’s bow and stern are wedged tight.

But with the ship stretching about 1,300 feet long — roughly the height of the Empire State Building — and weighing around 200,000 metric tons, by Saturday morning they still had not managed to dislodge the vessel.

Peter Berdowski, the chief executive of Royal Boskalis Westminster, one of the companies appointed by Ever Given’s owner to help move the vessel, told the Dutch current affairs program Nieuwsuur on Wednesday that the operation to free the ship could take “days, even weeks.”

Mr. Berdowski, whose company has been involved in expanding the Suez Canal, said that Ever Given was stuck on both shallow sides of the V-shaped waterway. Fully loaded with 20,000 containers, the ship “is a very heavy beached whale,” he said.

The authorities first tried to float the vessel using tugboats, a tactic that worked to free the CSCL Indian Ocean, a similarly sized container ship that became stuck in the Elbe River in 2016, near the port of Hamburg, Germany.

Mr. Berdowski said that the Ever Given, operated by the company Evergreen, was too heavy for tugboats alone and that dredging equipment was therefore being used to move the earth from around the ship.

A video taken from the ship and provided by Mohammed Mosselhy, the owner of First Suez International, a maritime logistics company at the canal, showed several excavators digging steadily at the edge of the turquoise water near the ship’s bow on Friday.

As the dredgers worked, a team of eight Dutch salvage experts and naval architects overseeing the operation were surveying the ship and the seabed and creating a computer model to help it work around the vessel without damaging it, said Capt. Nick Sloane, a South African salvage master who led the operation to right the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that capsized in 2012 off the coast of Italy.

If the tugboats, dredgers and pumps cannot get the job done, they could be joined by a head-spinning array of specialized vessels and machines requiring perhaps hundreds of workers: small tankers to siphon off the ship’s fuel, the tallest cranes in the world to unload some of its containers one by one and, if no cranes are tall enough or near enough, heavy-duty helicopters that can pick up containers of up to 20 tons — though no one has said where the cargo would go. (A full 40-foot container can weigh up to 40 tons.)

Captain Sloane estimated that the operation would take at least a week.

All this because, to put it simply: “This is a very big ship. This is a very big problem,” said Richard Meade, the editor in chief of Lloyd’s List, a London-based maritime intelligence publication.

“I don’t think there’s any question they’ve got everything they need,” he said. “It’s just a question of, it’s a very big problem.”

 

[cany]

That thing is stuck good