In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:54:36 -0400,
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:03:07 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 3/29/2021 11:49 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14484562/suez-canal-ship-refloated-freed/

A super moon helped.


And a bunch of tugs. Wonder what the final bill will be.

... and moving a bunch of sand.

This is far from an unprecedented thing and the world survived. The
canal was closed by a couple of Egypt/Israel wars, once for 8 years.

Reopened after Egypt finally signed an agreement with Israel.

The one after the 6 day war had 15 ships trapped in the canal by
scuttled ships on each end for 8 years. After the 56 war it was closed
a year or so.

The war back in 1956 deeply involved the UK and France as much or more
than Israel. They had built the canal and they owned it, until Egypt
"nationalized" it, which I guess is a synonym for confiscate. Although
it says Egypt said it would pay investors the stock price . (Did they
actually do that? )

Eisenhower got the UK and France to withdraw by pressuring them, because
their participation was stronger than Israel's.

Israel had free use of the canal until Egypt took over in 1956, not
afterwards. But in negotiations that year, it finally got the Egyptians
to stop blocking the Straits of Tiran, which Egypt had since 1950. The
Straits led to the small harbor in Eilat. Eilat is much farther from
population centers than the harbors in Haifa and Ashdod. Israel was
much more agrarian then and didn't import or export much except fuel
oil.

Then in 1967, Egypt again blockaded the Straits of Tiran, a clear act of
war against Israel that led to the Six Day War about 2 weeks later.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/world...al-stuck-ship/