Ship me somewheres east of Suez

[sovay]

My life remains a double-tracked medical cavalcade, but selkie has just informed me of the latest development in the Suez: "theyre actually doing it! ever given has been there so long that theyre actually going around the cape of good hope like 1700s scurvy patients oh my god."

I can only imagine how nervous the Panama Canal must be feeling right now. I just checked and thank God the dredging of Boston Harbor is proceeding on schedule. If we Storrowed a container ship, we'd never live it down.

P.S. The breeze coming through the window smells like the ocean; there was a gyre of seagulls visible above the roofs in the afternoon. It is coincidental but pleasant, considering all the chanteys I now have stuck in my head.

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[movingfinger]

Is there any chance that "some ships are too big for the Suez" is going to be fallout from this?

[sovay]

Is there any chance that "some ships are too big for the Suez" is going to be fallout from this?

There is a designation for that, although it doesn't appear to apply to container ships. That said, it looks as though Ever Given exceeded a couple of its parameters and I'm sure people who know more about naval architecture than me have already taken up this point. [edit] Yep.