before trying again. It will be expensive no matter what they do, but this seems to be the only real option now.

The plan is to remove all (maybe) 5,000 containers and then give it a go. I was just checking to see if the ship had its own (so to speak) Twitter account, where up-to-the-minute commentary would be available.

There are showers in the forecast for later today, but for the morning and afternoon, the weather should be nice. I expect the local TV stations will send people out to cover the activity.

Edited: I wouldn't be surprised if someone from the USCG were tweeting about the operation on a regular basis.

Here's something:

Add an N in front of the ship’s name and leave it where it is as truth in advertising!

the Suez Canal and now the Chesapeake. They either have a vision problem or they can't read charts.

I think the Suez incident was caused by a local pilot. Not sure about this one.

The Ever Given was built in 2018, the Ever Forward in 2020, and it seemed to be too much of a coincidence to see this situation again. From a post on DU yesterday, https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216577013

Taiwan's Evergreen Marine Corp has purchased 44 vessels from China since 2018, all but two of which were ordered from shipyards that produce Chinese warships, including CSSC, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a report.

IN JANUARY 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency visiting the Natanz uranium enrichment plant in Iran noticed that centrifuges used to enrich uranium gas were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause was a complete mystery—apparently as much to the Iranian technicians replacing the centrifuges as to the inspectors observing them.

Five months later a seemingly unrelated event occurred. A computer security firm in Belarus was called in to troubleshoot a series of computers in Iran that were crashing and rebooting repeatedly. Again, the cause of the problem was a mystery. That is, until the researchers found a handful of malicious files on one of the systems and discovered the world's first digital weapon.

cars, planes, ships, etc . Perhaps it's time to audit the chips that run things. As for Taiwan purchasing from China, that's strange enough since China wants to take over Taiwan.

With Taiwan, the Kurils, the Solomons etal, the long history of who owns what and which treaties apply is too complicated for me to figure out. As far as Taiwan though, they would have had to have weighed the risks of buying extremely complex systems, like freighters, and found benefits in going ahead with the deal. It is puzzling, and that's what a competent administration sorts out.