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CW4 Guy Butler
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One wonders where Evergreen will strand themselves next?

The Panama Canal springs to mind…
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SPC Steven Depuy
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Took them a month to figure out, if you remove some cargo, its lighter, and you can get it out of the muck.
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SPC Steven Depuy
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CW4 Guy Butler - They also took off 500 of the 1000 shipping containers
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SPC Steven Depuy
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Correction, 500 of 5000. But this is what I was pointing out. "Crews had made two unsuccessful attempts to free the grounded ship before they began removing containers to lighten the load. After the subsequent removal of roughly 500 of the 5,000 containers it was carrying, the Ever Forward was refloated just before 7 a.m. Sunday by two barges and five tugboats.
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CW4 Guy Butler
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SPC Steven Depuy Not arguing that; that was also important. Keep in mind, though, that a ship that size has a LOT of inertia; it sounds like the ship overran the edge of the shoal by a good 40-45 feet.

So, two parts: 1) unload cargo (I’m half-curious as to whether they borrowed the Army barge-derrick from the 949 TC CO in Curtis Bay, MD), and 2) dig out the shoal immediately behind the Evergreen so that it had a clean path for the extraction.
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