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Default One of the world's largest containerships is still aground

On Sat, 06 Feb 2016 11:24:51 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 03:53:00 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 10:18:35 PM UTC-6, wrote:
One of the world's largest containerships is still aground in the
River Elbe outside Germany's Port of Hamburg after a rescue attempt at
high tide today was abandoned when the ship failed to shift.

http://splash247.com/19000-teu-containership-is-still-stuck-rescue-attempts-abandoned/


Wow, that thing must have hit hard at a high tide.



Run a bunch of barges out there, unload the containers off the deck
and float it off.


That's one of the ideas in the article.
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