> Nine women can't make a baby in a month.
This is my new favorite phrase.
Somebody just have to come up with a good idea.... IE: blow up a boat load of C4 on the side of it...
I'm pretty certain if you nuked the container ship you'd solve the first problem - it'd be messy and expensive but if you could explosively throw chunks out of the canal you could probably resume service.
And just imagine how badass the canal would look if we glassed the banks and lined them with some LEDs!
(please don't do this)
I think you might inadvertently create a few new problems if you did this.
I was thinking the same thing - that glassed canal would probably be so scenic that you'd cause several future traffic jams from private vessels and romantic cruises charting a path through the already near-capacity canal.
The canal is just 10 metres deeper than the ship and it's more than 10 metres high, so just blowing up the ship is not enough to clear the canal. You also need to take away the 200 million kg of steel afterwards. At that point it's easier to just wait for the Really Big Tugboats to come over.
not if you blow up so hard that there is a massive crater. Then let nature fill it up. Isn't the canal connected to large waterways on both ends