My girlfriend's not here right now she's actually stuck on a ship in the Suez you see.
I'm waiting for the inevitable "Well There's Your Problem" episode that should be dropping any day now.
I wonder if the company would be liable for all the other shipping that's now stuck because of this. They would have to talk about it if they got sued.
oh they're definitely fucked six ways to sunday, no question
If it was anchored then it could feasibly make that sort of shape.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cargo-ship-ever-given-penis/
It's far too unclean to be done on purpose really. They also go over the same lines a couple times. I think it was just waiting its turn and floating around in circles. You can kinda see an anchor point in-between the "balls" where there's a lot of convergence.
Sandstorm + high winds, mainly.
Also, waterways take a lot of maintenance. Like, the amount of effort that goes into keeping the Mississippi River open to shipping is crazy, and there are places where a ship hitting the side like this could cause massive flooding and shit. Wouldn't be super surprised if the Suez has some weird currents and whatnot just from the difficult of keeping it kept up.
