This One Canals Mistake Is Costing The World Billions

[@KhAnubis]

This is like the geopolitical equivalent of choking on a piece of food

[@crashgoblin2877]

Eyyy it’s KhAnubis

[@crashgoblin2877]

I have been watching you for 2 years

[@cs7811]

Greetings

[@NoAlarms.NoSuprises]

True

[@3bydacreekside]

If it takes any longer, it would be like a clot in a vital artery.

[@SuperSMT]

The builders of the suez canal: _"I sawed this continent in half!"_

[@lordmctheobalt]

Captain of the Ever Given: "and now I will link them again with my ship

[@K1989L]

@@lordmctheobalt If they flextaped the ship there, then we are screwed!

[@dunk.]

rip afroeurasia

[@Hollywood2021]

That’s a lot of damage!

[@stomper739]

Africa is no longer connected with Asia

[@gavinthecrafter]

*This little maneuver is gonna cost us a few billion dollars*

[@adamkinsten9231]

"That’s not a mountain, its a ship"

[@muffinmendy7327]

I mean it's over 30 billion dollars now so I wouldn't call that a few.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@johnperic6860 I'd argue that when it passes 10, it can no longer be called a few.

[@peneficial1643]

@@johnperic6860 the universe has a few atoms, not too much I guess. :p

[@FreyasArts]

As of now, it's already $39 billion. I think it has become a little bit more than a few 😂

[@lincolnlog5977]

St. Petersburg does still freeze over sometimes. That’s why Russia wants to keep Kaliningrad so badly.

[@erkinalp]

Sevaspopol is now a Russian soil

[@lincolnlog5977]

@@erkinalp yeah but it’s still good to have a port in the Baltic in case Turkey decides to block the straight by Istanbul.

[@Dominik-lc4pl]

@@lincolnlog5977 I think they can't by maritime law

[@numega7323]

@@Dominik-lc4pl If they are in a war then I don’t think they will care.

[@Dominik-lc4pl]

@@numega7323 Turkey is in NATO, just like Denmark. So no difference here

[@walker_andrej]

Toycat: use ctrl+shift+T to reopen recently closed tabs

[@chitlitlah]

Or if you can't memorize that, just right-click the tabs bar and click undo close tab.

[@tost8282]

Wait what-... Thank you, sir

[@larissajoy]

or just ctr + z.. works at least on safari, even if you've interacted with some other tabs after

[@milic5068]

@@larissajoy i dont think it works on opera, which is the one toycat uses

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@larissajoy Ctrl Shift T is universal outside of the forbidden fruit. Ctrl W closes the tab Crtl T opens a new one.

[@jeremywissell8027]

It's spring break for a lot of colleges in America. That would explain the massive number of flights to Florida.

[@weldin]

A lot of us didn’t get a spring break this year >:/

[@MChagall]

Break, what's that? It's still COVID time

[@adamwnt]

The whole of the US is sooo ridiculously reliant on planes and it always has, it’s not just the spring break

[@jadapinkett1656]

@@MChagall Not in the US

[@muffinmendy7327]

Spring break??? You get special break just for spring???

[@patrickanquetil7937]

As a french person myself, mildly passive aggressive comments towards the french are always my favourite.

[@lvmarthemost]

Baguette

[@iiiii-c6h]

*baguette, Baguette, BAGUETTE*

[@patrickryan7829]

Classic, immediately roll over to pressure.

[@stanislasbarrage7579]

@@patrickryan7829 ah ffs that one got me gg

[@alexonian2940]

Je suis américain, mais j’ai appris français pour trois ans au école. Habitez-vous en France? 🇫🇷

[@EdBball99]

If this results in the need for a second Suez Canal to be dug, could I propose calling it the 2uez Canal.

[@marmac83]

Bravo. You win.

[@T6e6r6o]

Bonus points if it's pronounced "too easy canal".

[@trueriver1950]

@@T6e6r6o when the American brand image guys get hold of it, we'll be spelling it 2-E-Z

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@trueriver1950 Too easy to be ever given a chance.

[@sorsocksfake]

@@trueriver1950 They'll try it. But it's pretty much a done deal that it will be popularly known as the "2 Ass Canal", or in formal circles, as "the Buttcrack of the Middle East".

[@ylette]

Guess they haven't Ever Given this scenario much thought until now.

[@Horystar]

Did you really?

[@ImmortalRhyme4]

Take my like and leave

[@juliusnepos6013]

Lol

[@beepboopbeepp]

They probably have, but it's too much of a hassle or lack of initiative to care

[@idot3331]

@@beepboopbeepp damn

[@AlecMader]

The two ships that made it through RIGHT before this happened: *"...yeet."*

[@cheeseninja1115]

Reminds me of the meme format of "[Laughter] you dumb bitch"

[@JonatasAdoM]

They literally dodged a ship there.

[@cdcdrr]

Dat one excavator. It's like: "I know you're trapped by a cave-in, but don't worry! I have brought my teaspoon."

[@paulohagan3309]

Perhaps it's important to be seen to try something, anything until the big boys come.

[@JonatasAdoM]

Monsters Inc. had the idea first.

[@tescomealdeals4613]

I am a mistake that is costing the world thousands, if that helps... its okay engineers, you aren't the only ones.

[@liam3044]

*architects

[@tescomealdeals4613]

@@liam3044 yah

[@zerstorer5006]

9:10 Little correction: Saint Petersburg actually freezes during winter, but Kaliningrad stays warm. Also to the north the port of Murmansk always stays warm due to the North Atlantic Drift that reaches all the way to the Barents sea. That's why you found ships going in there without freezing into ice lol. Great video anyway!

[@StotakkMC]

"so then egypt got themselves an excavator" "You don't realize how much you care about boats until the boats make you care about them" 😂😂🤣 Am I just laughing bc it's the midnight "everything is funny" period, or is it just that funny?

[@Somajsibere]

Both.

[@MidwestArtMan]

“Let’s zoom in so we can see their boatiness.”

[@JonatasAdoM]

Oh midnight everything's funny. That makes sense. Though it is more of 3/4AM for me.

[@estonalexander704]

The Panama canal is a different form of canal because the Pacific and Atlantic ocean are different heights. Because of this there are locks to raise and lower boats. Otherwise, there would be a massive amount of flooding in Panama. The locks were widened in 2016. Therefore its literally nearly impossible to have the same situation as the Suez. It's not open like the Suez.

[@ericktellez7632]

And if something were to happen to the Panama Canal, there is Mexico’s corredor, in the Yucatan peninsula to connect pacific and atlantic oceans.

[@diegoidepersia]

@@ericktellez7632 and theres nicaragua

[@desanipt]

The locks are there because the land it crosses just raises way too high for a sea level canal to be digged (or at least for it to make financial sense when compared to a canal with locks that evolved much less digging). That's why there are 2 sets of locks, one at the Atlantic end and another at the Pacific end of the canal. In order to transit the canal you enter at one end, get raised in a lock, cross the whole isthmus, and get back down on a lock on the other side The level of both oceans would never be a issue considering how they join anyway at both tips of the Americas.

[@IONATVS]

EDIT: original had some incorrect info, changed due to commenter fact-check so as not to mislead. A couple notes: (1) a canal between the Mediterranean and Red Sea was actually originally built by the Ancient Egyptians, and it inspired the French colonial Suez canal, tho as it had been neglected for a thousand or 2 years at the point when the French decided to build theirs, it was completely rerouted, rebuilt, widened and modernized by the in the colonial era by the French. (2) while the Panama Canal is thinner and shorter, it was actually the FAR more complicated of the two great canals to build, as the elevation differences over that short stretch of land are pretty extreme. It was an engineering marvel of its time, and it would cost trillions to make a redundant one in the modern day (though as with Suez there are several segments with redundant channels where it was practical to do so). The Scottish had hoped to make a colony and build a canal on the Isthmus VERY early in the colonial period, but they didn’t account for the terrain (hard to blame them given that most maps at the time weren’t exactly accurate or topographical) and how thoroughly they bankrupted themselves doing so is part of the reason the Scottish Parliament accepted the Acts of Union with England to become the UK, along with other political pressures such as being neighbors and already having the same Monarch wearing their two crowns.

[@Die__Ene]

The canal built by the Ancient Egyptians ran east - west from the Nile Delta to the Red Sea. Subsequent canals like Darius' Canal were built roughly along that route. There was no known ancient canal running north - south along the route of the Suez Canal. I suppose the Suez Canal shared its route with the ancient canal(s) along the short run from the Red Sea to Bitter Lake, but that's simply following the shortest route. The sand-choked remains of the ancient canals were irrelevant to the construction of the Suez Canal, except that they inspired Napoleon Bonaparte who, in turn, may be responsible for inspiring those who started building the canal 50 years later.

[@henryeberman6342]

I think the scots tried in gautemrla

[@trueriver1950]

@@Die__Ene that's right. Bonus facts: It was less digging to join the Nile to it's nearest point on the Red Sea, and most of the Nile was plenty wide and deep for the Roman era shipping. The route came out at Alexandria, and because of the way the Nile goes into delta, they also had to widen and deepen the channel through Alex. Canal builders always cheat and use nearby rivers and/or lakes whenever they can. A huge fraction of the Manchester Ship Canal is in fact a river, for example, and the Caledonian Canal goes through several lochs including Loch Ness.

[@JonatasAdoM]

When you're so broke, you accept becoming dependant.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@trueriver1950 You made me realize there are more than 2 canals in the world. Makes sense when you think about it.

[@Alex-wg9bi]

toycat: alerts my attention to pressing, interesting world events, flexing his worldly knowledge also toycat: calls the Caspian Sea a lake

[@TheBeerae]

It is

[@E4439Qv5]

Great Salt Lake

[@icwatto]

@@TheBeerae kinda, but i þink his point is ðat toycat didnt say ðe caspian sea and instead just said a lake

[@paulohagan3309]

@@icwatto You an old English spelling fan? Or just maybe Icelandic?

[@icwatto]

@@paulohagan3309 old english

[@ericktellez7632]

I dont know at which point the world turned into a parody of itself.

[@TheodoreIchabod]

"Most shipping does go by boat." That is how it be, yes.

[@ben4885]

?

[@TheodoreIchabod]

!

[@callumunga5253]

@@ben4885 _Shipping (countable and uncountable, plural shippings)_ _1. The transportation of goods._ _2. Passage or transport on a ship._ The joke is that shipping originally refers exclusively to objects transported by boat, rather than being inclusive of overland transport.

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@callumunga5253 Like riding implies you're actually riding an animal.

[@CivetKittyMC]

Apparently Ever Given was made in Japan and the company switched to Korean made ships after the purchase.

[@lovingnature7168]

As a person who works in a shipping industry for UPS, can confirm, air shipping is pretty expensive. From New York State to Europe is like $200-300 sometimes even for a small package. Or even within the US, People will complain about ground shipping prices like yea go ahead and drive it there yourself and see how much time and gas money it takes.😂 love the vids mr funny internet cat man keep it up 🟧

[@JonatasAdoM]

That's rather cheap if you compare it to other nations.

[@WestIsOnFire]

I deal in international shipping and this is a nightmare right now lmao

[@paulohagan3309]

Indeed I'm sure and indirectly a bit of a concern for a lot of us. Prices going to rise on some things because of this?

[@WestIsOnFire]

@@paulohagan3309 100%

[@danielrubinstein5210]

We Had a pretty big sandstorm here in Israel roughly at the same time with winds going reasonably fast, may have been the same event that caused the ship to get stuck.

[@BuildConquerDestroy]

The French did not dig the canal, Egyption slaves did, some of them with their bare hands. The canal has an interesting history, it's well worth learning about. The French came up with the idea and convinced Egypt to do all the labour, Egypt went bankrupt and Great Britain (Who actively tried to sabotage the canal's creation) swooped in at the end and bought it for practically nothing.

[@elseggs6504]

And then both got pissed when Egypt wanted what was rightfully theirs.

[@elseggs6504]

@@BuildConquerDestroy Egyptian hands dug the canal for imperialists. Right when the US and Soviets both campaigned in the name of liberty a lot of colonies wanted to do shit on their own without their overlords guidance. Weird coincidence, huh?

[@azeria1]

They really should have made it bigger to fit with the times especially with how big ships are getting

[@NothingXemnas]

I don't know about that. Panama Canal is tighter and do not know of any issues. It does help that the locks for the elevators are just 30m wide and that limits the cargo ship size that enters the canal in general, but the size requirements (particularly the New Panamax) mostly has displacement and height limits because of the sand banks outside of the Panama Canal and a bridge. That ship's helmsman is just bad.

[@pol1315]

@@NothingXemnas Mexico can develop a path through the Itsmo de Tehuantepec which would be quicker than the Panama Canal

[@Somajsibere]

It was built over 100 years ago, and it hasn t had any majour upgrades since.

[@Aragon1500]

@@NothingXemnas the canal was widened due to ships having to go around south America ten years ago

[@arch3223]

There are currently two classes of ships, one called a Panamax and another called Suezmax, meaning those classes of ships are the absolute largest that can fit through the canals in their name so if the canal is widened, then ships will just get bigger.

[@DubsBrown]

5:49 the balcony thing did happen in Berkeley, CA when a bunch of Irish exchange students where on a overloaded balcony and it collapsed onto the balcony beneath it.

[@SilvanaDil]

It's like Western and Eastern Canada connected by ONE road, LOL.

[@datavalisofficial8730]

wait wait is it really? LOL

[@SilvanaDil]

@@datavalisofficial8730 - yep

[@1wun1]

@@datavalisofficial8730 in theory it's true in remote western Ontario, but there are alternate routes through nearby U.S. states and unpaved tracks.

[@Monosekist]

It's strange to think that the car and plane were invented under 150 years ago, but boats have existed for thousands of years.

[@skypig]

Just a small note, architects don’t consider anything. They hire engineers for that

[@JonatasAdoM]

"Scotty, how long will it take?" "At least half an hour" "You have ten minutes" "Aye capitan"

[@waycoolscootaloo]

You know what's also crazy. No one is talking about this from what I have seen. But this ship at 1,312 ft. long, is the world's largest class of container ship.

[@ustanik9921]

Well there is a ton of memes about it so its a known thing by now

[@JonatasAdoM]

@@ustanik9921 Not by all.

[@JonatasAdoM]

"One does not simply get stuck in the canal."

[@JonatasAdoM]

We started making extra emergency tunnels in tunnels after major accidents. Maybe this will spark something.

[@renderproductions1032]

Imagine if your Longbois were stuck there. That would be soooooo bad!!!! Thankfully, I got mine today. (I love it!)

[@lmiartegtra9412]

I also got your longboy today. I agree, tis great.

[@ethanhaynes7406]

mine hasn't gotten here yet... OH GOD IT MUST HAVE GOTTEN STUCK lol

[@TAILSORANGEs]

LongBoyCat

[@renderproductions1032]

@@ethanhaynes7406 oh no!

[@JudgeHill]

Why does it read EVERGREEN on the side if the name is Ever Given? No one in the news has addressed this glaring issue :(

[@Ryan-kh9oz]

Evergreen is a company with a boat named Ever Given. Ever Given is just written smaller.

[@JudgeHill]

@@Ryan-kh9oz ok, got it, thanks!👌🏻

[@jason_ityk]

"Apparently a lot of shipping happens in America". Who would of thought the world's largest economy would need goods.

[@ibx2cat]

I find it weird to imagine boats going to America though, in a way I can't imagine but am definitely dumb for

[@SilvanaDil]

@@ibx2cat - The USA has a fabulous system of interconnected waterways.

[@TheLocalLt]

@@SilvanaDil yep honestly toycat should do a video on the intracoastal waterway, one of the coolest things no one’s heard about

[@SilvanaDil]

@@TheLocalLt - Amen.

[@MeiraV-]

"Let's zoom in so we can see their boatiness"

[@cenewton3221]

If the canal is deep enough they should just cut their losses, sink the damned thing and get on with it.. LOL

[@connorchaffin6271]

The canal is actually really shallow, pretty much just deep enough for the boats to pass by

[@GWVillager]

Yeah, just deep by canal standards

[@theyoshi202]

They should ram it with another boat to make it unstuck

[@hhorizonn]

@@theyoshi202 and if said boat also gets stuck then try with a third one and so on

[@tonedzg4161]

America has warplanes to sink a ship in the canals if all out war breaks out. That's because the canal with a sunken ship will be impassable. So if this isn't fixed soon or if that ship sinks the entire world will suffer including America.

[@playc.holder6432]

Your love of geography is endearing

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

Caspian Sea: exists Toycat: *t H i S L a K e*

[@menpee]

Technically true, which is the best kind of true.

[@budisoemantri2303]

He's right, just like dead sea the "sea" name just technically wrong

[@Andre-cg9xm]

This Suez Canal Gameplay and commentary was spectacular.

[@Yomesto]

TO SHOW THE POWER OF METAL THINGS THAT FLOAT I JOINED TWO CONTINENTS TOGETHER

[@TheLocalLt]

That power over the world economy granted by controlling one of these canals is exactly why America kept the Panama Canal and surrounding areas as an overseas possession until the 1970s. Before then Panama was split into two halves

[@dominicking8089]

"most shipping is actually via boat" very incisive

[@trueriver1950]

Actually most shipping is by ships.

[@mclark23]

Some shipping is by plane is what he meant

[@Kakariki73]

And off course on one of those ships in the traffic jam is a container that has a package with two lovely computer parts I am waiting for so desperately, typical 😝

[@JonatasAdoM]

I managed to make an online purchase during a truck driver general strike. I know your pain.

[@andrewreynolds4949]

Shipping and water routes were even more important in medieval times, when they didn’t have rail or air transport at all and roads were very slow and difficult and often unreliable

[@toolebukk]

Just when i thought toycat couldnt be more interresting, i stumbled upon ibx2cat. Subscribed

[@295g295]

14:09 - When a big ship is approaching the port area (harbour, bay, river) from an ocean, a local pilot boards to assist the ship's captain into port/dock. I think a pilot is on board through these canals too.

[@estraume]

You should make a video about the volcano in Iceland. You can actually take a flight to the international airport, go for a 20 km hike through the Icelandic wilderness, and you are at the volcano.

[@emanwhomakesbarrels701]

During a war both sides of the Suez canal was blocked by bombing. At the time several ships were stuck in the middle. They spent 20 years waiting for it to open again and all the while each boat remained manned. One boat contained 20k bottles of rum. They used to have parties and mini Olympics on all the boats.

[@TheGreatCornholio.]

I wonder if those waiting boats play music with their horns collectively when the captains are bored

[@JonatasAdoM]

Or.communicate via morse code.

[@chair547]

planes go over land more often than boats do? yet another fascinating observation by toycat lol.

[@jeegollyboiohboi3598]

That was oddly enlightened towards the end of it way more enlightened that I'm used to

[@georgiancrossroads]

Toycat thanks for sharing the tracking sites. I'll be sending a container from Haines Alaska to Poti in Georgia (the country) later in the year. Now I can track that baby.

[@Max-pk6uc]

Saw Toycat wondering what port freeze over in the baltic. So my tip and a general rule you can use is that the northernmost port in the baltic that naturaly doesnt freeze over is the port of Klaipėda anything more north naturaly freezes over but many big ports are looked after by people and the ice is broken apart before it can freeze the port

[@kazriko]

There was a time around 54ish years ago when the Suez Canal was blocked for quite a long time, and ships were stuck in the lake in the middle for years. By the time the canal was unblocked, some of the ships had been sunk and others weren't even operable anymore. Hopefully this blockage won't last 8 years though. The ship running aground is actually a whole lot worse than it seems. Apparently the east 1/3rd of the canal isn't dredged as deep as the west 2/3rds, so a significant portion of that ship is actually not even floating anymore, and simply digging it free from the shoreline won't free it completely.

[@JonatasAdoM]

I wish it would be clearly mentioned the ship has run aground. That's why it has been a challenge to remove it.

[@JerEditz]

As far as I know, we are always fighting the tide. Also that boat is like: I am about to end this whole world's career.

[@theshamanite]

Today I learned that Toycat had 7,222 KZbin notifications on this day (*o*)

[@williamkuwata1736]

love this type of content man, keep up the good work

[@xXobama0Xx]

One guy caused a whole global trade system to be put on pause.

[@paradisesea4774]

Gavrilo Princip has entered the chat

[@ክፉየዩቲዩብእጀታ]

It was a woman

[@PolarBear543]

St Petersburg freezing over was one of the main reasons russia annexed crimea, dont know if climate change has stopped freezing though🤔

[@DB-ux9lu]

🤔🤔🤔

[@greasher926]

Not really, Russia has other ice free ports, such as Murmansk up in the Arctic due to the Gulf Stream, plus the other existing ports on the Black Sea. Russia took Crimea because it allows them to project power in the Black Sea, it’s basically an unsinkable carrier ship. Also it guards the entrance to the Russian heartland from the south via the Don river. Russia didn’t want to risk Crimea becoming a NATO base, that is why they took it.

[@decorn2542]

Can't believe there wasn't any Google street view in this video, I'm devastated!!!

[@KOZMOuvBORG]

Great Stationary Regatta of 2021 8:55 takes far less energy to push* cargo over water than either land and air (and soon, space) transport *barges on the Erie canal were drawn by animals pulling on land (runs on hay or grass) with crew aboard with poles to steer Donau in Wien and Duna in Budapest

[@TheDeterminer]

Interesting thing I noticed: Ships generally pass right into oncoming traffic. Look at the waterways between Spain and Morocco aswell as Britain and France.

[@taMeska]

Imagine being on the ship just behind

[@benjaminnickerson3961]

Everytime you call a ship a boat, part of me dies

[@johngalt5166]

Everyone freaking out and I am just pogging as Atlas Shrugged literally becomes real life lol

[@James-gd3sp]

The Panama Canal was owned by the US for a long time, but gave it back after political tension and also rail transportation from east and west coast has become more economically efficient than shipping in a lot of cases.

[@jacksoncrocker7043]

Something I can talk about intelligently in a map video!!! The “traffic jam” you’re seeing isn’t quite as crazy looking as you might think, many ships wait to transit canals for up to a couple days due to weather. Imagine the backup at the Panama Canal when a hurricane comes through! A true nightmare for an officer on the bridge of a ship, you’ve trained your whole professional life for this and a freak accident ruins your career. Now I need to go and watch more about how this happened. Ask a guy who’s driven a container ship through the suez questions about this, I’ll go read up on anything I’m missing :)

[@MrJonyish]

By the way Balconies aren’t all made equal especially in older buildings your balcony is probably held in by 4 cast iron bolts in the side of the building! So yes your fears about balconies are actually founded unless you’re in a modern house they have to be steel beamed to the same spec as your floor. :)

[@FreyasArts]

As of now, over $39 billion have been lost du to the Suez canal incident

[@jeroenboth167]

We Dutch people can build walls every year to keep back the water but the other countries that made the Suez Canal cant even think to build a second canal ^^’

[@sorsocksfake]

Important things you only have one of. Like, even the Dutch have only one system of government. I forget whether that's a monarchy or a republic, though...

[@Quickshot0]

To be fair to Egypt, they actually added those second lane portions in the last decade, so it's less bad then it used to be where it was all one lane.

[@Eggu-san]

This is some realy interesting topic. Never thought about it thank you for showing this! Hope you make a second video on this shipping trade topic.

[@griffca4814]

It's easy to say we should have more fail safes or make the canals larger but the amount of time money and engineering that would have to go into it would be staggering. They have been trying to expand the Panama Canal for 30 years and their best idea is just to build a whole new one else where.

[@PlayerIO]

Yesterday: has shelter Today: dies from coldness and lack of food

[@anthonyfleming5711]

6:23 "Most shipping actually does go by boat"

[@josephmadden7865]

mental how as soon as I saw the news of the ship being stuck i immediately thought of you

[@addiosnia]

Someone call a plumber

[@claymore609]

I don't have a link, BUT... There is a route tracking site where you can see the routes taken, the ship drew a peen and what looked to be writing the french word for "Yes" (OUI), before entering the and getting... Stuck. Just a little FYI.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Could do with some of those high-pressure hoses Egypt used to wash away the Bar Lev Line during the Yom Kippur War.

[@vitorsousa8172]

1 lonely excavator doing all the work. Evergreen cargo manifest: a hundred new excavators for river & harbour dragging purposes

[@ArrowProds]

This reminds me, I need to build a canal in my Minecraft survival world.

[@UnipornFrumm]

So many boats,thank you for sharing this website,i love boats

[@ernestbywater411]

300 metres was really wide enough when it was built as it would take a few boats side on to block it. However, ships have grown bigger, wider and longer and no one thought to duplicate or widen the whole canal. You'd think the ship owners would redirect the ships instead of paying for them to wait around.

[@LouSassaul]

“Wind” that captain was hitting the bottle

[@mikepowell2776]

Strait of Gibraltar ( along with the Dardanelles passage and the Belts between Denmark and Sweden and a few other places where ships have no alternative) are toll-free International Waterways. Panama, Suez and other cost-saving passages charge for their use, often eye-watering amounts. For this they provide canal pilots who are supposed to guide the ship. Please don’t blame the master (captain) until you know what caused it. It could have been any number of things. There’s a grounding in this canal, on average, every two or three weeks - though usually not so spectacular or disruptive.

[@AFAndersen]

Last time a bunch of ships got stuck in that "little lake" they were stuck for 8 years!

[@TAILSORANGEs]

Alternate title: Toycat is trying to love the canal. (As long as it's the *right* canal)

[@jankkhvej434]

toycat almost typed flightradar34 , muscle memory?

[@ZENITH_System_3]

Toycats WORLD NEWS: a tanker has blocked hundreds of shipping boats and probably affects somebody out there!

[@FateBoost]

Dam your quick adding new videos.

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

Not only is boats cheap, they are also effectively the fastest way to transport large amounts of cargo. Lots of stuff is so heavy or large that putting it on planes is not viable. And even for things that would be possible to put on planes; a single cargo ship can in a 10-20 days cross the atlantic with probably way more cargo than two airports would be able to handle by plane working at max capacity in the same time. And until trains (and later automobiles and aeroplanes) were invented; travelling by sea also generally the the fastest way to travel in general. Only if the sea route were a ridiculous detour; even a slightly longer route by sea would often be a lot faster than going on horseback. While a horse can go quite fast for a while in ideal terrain; it cannot go fast for long so a sailboat generally is faster.

[@pagebarto6761]

There's a canal in the great lakes as well next to Niagara Falls connecting lake Ontario to lake Erie.

[@KetchupBlood94]

8:37 "what is a passenger ship doing in..." You know, granting passage.

[@TheXenomorphGuySMSE]

"most shipping is done by a boat" -toycat 2021

[@ibx2cat]

that's why we call it shipping, after all

[@TheXenomorphGuySMSE]

@@ibx2cat true

[@nathanmelo7805]

The Evergreen ship incident is a proof that airships are the solution

[@mikepowell2776]

Even afloat it can’t turn round. It’s longer than the canal is wide. It was never intended for ships this size and such big vessels were developed after that little bit of trouble between Egypt and its neighbours last century specifically to be economically viable without using the canal. The company I recently retired from has freight on Ever Given and on two other ships in the northbound queue. Subsequent consignments will go by rail. Twice the cost but a third of the time and, hopefully, more reliable.

[@bubby1]

An apostrophe goes a long way, Andrew.

[@AureliusLaurentius1099]

Like Maggie Thatcher once said: SINK IT!

[@Will-bo7kg]

Considering it was made in the 19th century it’s not entirely unreasonable to only be that wide.

[@lifeisgameplayit]

Wow! Thank you for shareing this with us ! :D this is hilarious! I know its not, but it is you know :D