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But if they let the Suez Canal fill with sand, then their supply of hand-crafted 24ct toilets will have to be shipped around the Horn of Africa!

Oh, the humanity!

Woulda done nothing to prevent it.

The ship did not get stuck in the bottom. It veared off course and rammed into both shores of the land around the canal.

Yes, it rammed into the sloping shores.  If the sides had been vertical and free of sand, would that have made any difference?  We may never know.

Maybe if those who run the canal would issue "Full stop and drop anchor" orders whenever there are high winds and/or low visibility, there would be fewer groundings ... ?  Again, we may never know.

*grumpy old man voice*

Goddamn kids! Stop fiddlin' with those shipping containers and get back to work!

Back when I was young in the 30's (1730's) we carried shipping containers filled with oversized tungsten anvils on our own backs across the scorching hot desert Egyptian desert during a freezing blizzard!

We didn't get no breaks, water or fancy TV coverage, either. And we got all our food from eating the dead!

... degenerates, freeloaders, mooches ... *mumbles*

Doubt veritical walls would make a difference. The ship would have breached the concrete walls, caused them to collapse, causing the shores behind the walls to landslide into the water around both ends of the ship resulting in the same situation. It would have been unfeasible to build the whole length of the Suez that way anyway. Its not the Panama Canal - with locks- and therefore narrow ship sized channels. Its a wide mostly sea level water way.

But a warning system that kicks in during a sandstorm does seem to be needed- stop every ship simultaneous, both so they dont run aground, and so they dont rear end each other while blinded.

We are into speculative territory now.

If the walls are thick enough, a ship traveling only a few knots (~ 5 mph) might not breach the walls.

However, the ship itself may be so badly damaged that it would sink and clog up the canal anyway.

Again, we may never know.

That might be a less wise idea than it sounds: a ship is a free-floating object in a fluid medium & the gale-force sandstorm winds would push it downwind, whichever direction that happens to be, since unlike a car on the road with the friction of rubber tires on the road surface to keep the car from blowing downwind, there is nothing which will keep a ship from being blown downwind.

Here, read this, (I lived in VA Beach in 1980s) https://www.pilotonline.com/news/articl ... 68cd1.html

A thought might come, "well then the ships should drop their anchors", and that will merely result in the ship being blown downwind of the point where the anchor sits on the bottom.
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And then there is a thing called steerageway, and a specific variation of it named bare steerageway - look them up.

And then there is a water current flow through the Suez Canal - remember, it has no locks, and there is a tidal flow along with that, so stopped ships would be moved by the current flow.

Egypt’s first female captain falsely blamed for blocking Suez Canal

Egypt’s first female ship captain says she was wrongly blamed for the Suez Canal debacle — which occurred while she was on a different vessel hundreds of miles away. Marwa Elselehdar, 29, was at sea as the first mate in command of the Aida IV in Alexandria when the massive Ever Given container ship became accidentally stuck in the waterway, the BBC reported.



But online rumors and fake news headlines spread that she was behind the maritime disaster, which held up the major shipping route for nearly a week before the Ever Given was freed.

The rumors about her involvement appeared to be driven by a screenshot of a doctored Arab News headline. "This fake article was in English, so it spread in other countries," Elselehdar told the BBC. "I tried so hard to negate what was in the article because it was affecting my reputation and all the efforts I exerted to be where I am now."