Suez Canal Bumper Boats
What’s Going on With Shipping?
August 23, 2023
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano – maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner – examines the loss of power and blockage of the Suez Canal by the LNG carrier BW Lesmes and the collision with the tanker Burri on August 23, 2023.
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00:00 Introduction
07:36 Grounding Replay
19:31 Recap
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Tanker and LNG Carrier Collide in Suez Canal
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41 Comments
Damn, i lost a good toaster oven to Evergreen, wonder what I'll lose this time? 😢
Never good, but could be a lot worse. At this point, we'll take that as a win.
I wonder who the Suez Canal Authority is going to blame this time. 🙄
Thanks again Sal, for keeping us consistently up-to-date & informed. When I get your video notifications, I think, "now what?" Lol. Supply Chain Pain!
The Suez hires only through nepotism so pretty much 5 people are qualified to be there. This will happen.
better question is whats going on with the pilots, who have caused so many accidents over the years
Thanks Sal! The tugs made a huge difference!
Cayman Islands, and Bahamas… They can get together from their HQs in London and/or Hampshire UK!
Ching Ching the classification societies will be happy to charge for all of this! Expensive mistake for the owners/groups
There were some rumours of a canal project through Israel.
Anything going on with that ?
That was amazing to watch. Hat's off to a job well done. Thank you.
Any day there is a collision involving a LNG Tanker that doesn’t end up in a fireball.. Is a very good day indeed
Awesome presentation. I would be interested in hearing more about the current.
How long did this accident take in real time? This channel is one of my all time favourites 💕💕💕
Is here.
Certainly going off the tug movement it seems they had an issue and called out immediately, the tug in front reverses basically as soon as the ship starts losing control, way before they hit the bank the first time.
Imagine you're driving your oil tanker down the canal and there's this huge LNG tanker blocking your path!! The pucker factor must have been epic!!
Isnt the Panama Canal having problems as well?
Very interresting !
Hi Sal, Do these Canal Pilots think they are on SeaWorlds Lazy River.
Appreciate your hard work on these video's Sal.
Oy vey. And the Panama Canal is backed up 24 days…. this is not going to be pretty, for everyone. 😮
how hard was that impact?
Very interesting. Thank you!
Hi Sal, just watched a Dutch video of the Fremantle Highway being unloaded. Very interesting to see the side ramp down and Mercedes SUVs being driven off. Not sure what type they were! I guess they are from the lower decks?
Great job Sal, they're going to just hook all the ships onto a cable and do a San Francisco cable car style just back and relax and get towed through the ca
they should have called Sal, their bad.
Facinating play by play!
When Sal mentioned what type of shop it was, I looked up and said "whoa, LNG."
Without missing a beat, my wife asked, "who is she?"
Bonus points to whichever company first names an LNG carrier the Ellen Gee.
Yo 🛳️Prof ! Saw yous on that Nova Suez pbs broadcast ! Reckon that was in the can Before the car shipper fires !
What is the green, red, blue colour of the ships?
Need more chia to help with this blockage
Maybe you can talk about civil forfeiture that was a maritime law and is used by the gov in todays law enforcement not maritime law
You have to prove you’re innocent
Really weird law
I love bumper boats. They need to do this more often.
I have always been impressed with pilots and tugboat crews. In Portland OR., I had to do 2 down bound and 2 up bound rides, on merchant ships, to and from Astoria OR. My second down bound was an Alaskan Slope crude tanker. It was leaving after yard service. It was 225' wide and 1200 long. The BN rr swing bridge had a 230' opening. There were 2 pilots one on each bridge wing and a senior pilot providing orders to 5 tugs. The large tug was connected to the bow and was pulling forward to port. the four other tugs were pushing on the starboard. The tugs had to drop off and move around a bridge column and reconnect to the side. there was a starboard set due to wind. The clearance was just 6"as the starboard stern pasted the bridge. This was incredible to see, like a core-graphed ballet.
cant believe it, i spoke with a friend today about the importance of an open Suez Kanal! a blocked channel would create huge costs and hit us all and now i see your video:DD great informative video as always! 👍
Nice to see such good work.
When power is lost the ship does get quiet but the Engineering group goes BearSac. I only remember one time in the mid-Pacific and thank God the ocean was calm
Sal, Am listening to the BBC Documentary on the EverGiven 's Stucky incident in the Suez Canal. Your input parts are real good. Wasn't it handy that the following vessel had a pretty good lookin. female engineer available for consult? Folks should look at this Documentary and realize how much worse it couldh've been. Thanks for what you're doing. BTW, I could hardly recognize you without a Sal's Ship's Shirt on. Glenn/Garner
Hey Sal – what's going on in the Panama Canal? Are they implementing restrictions due to "a climate change drought" (in-so-much as they can't replenish the locks from Alajuela and Gatun lakes)?
Thanks, Sal! I forwarded this on to my friends – this was really, really interesting! I learned a lot I didn't know about the Suez Canal. (And I totally agree with thomasfrank280 on the "pucker effect"! Truly epic moment!)
Glad to see SOMEONE is learning from bitter experience.