Ep. 204: The Suez Saga

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That's a pretty cool conversation. I mean, researchers take my blood pressure and that time will be the highest level of my mind. This is searching for one person. It will be completely lame thing which comes up.

So before we start this episode, before we talk about the topic du jour, congrats on getting jabbed. Totally experienced like. Are you co-hosted? Are you co-hosted?

I am co-hosted. Very well done. So co-hosted is the AstraZeneca. Correct.

Correct. Oh, nice. Good. Legit Raxi.

This is the... We just do not like this. You have disliked so we can't suppose. Yeah, so Sheila and I were on our way to office and we wanted to find out that the place goes to our factory where vaccination is given.

So we thought we'd just find out what is the procedure for enrolling. And they said, oh, please come and they came to us. Actually something quite surprising, my parents also, they went. They were at the hospital for like my dad and some other random checkup.

And they saw this vaccination call, whatever something. And they just went to ask. And people were like, I mean, they just literally they backed it. They were like, there's many concerns in service.

They were like, oh, no, no. And then before they go, they're the vaccine truck been given already. So very well trained. Like, you know, it's a pretty downmarket place.

And you know, it's as far away from sort of breach candy hospital or just lower, whatever, as you can imagine. The staff was so sort of, you know, nice and very trained and they knew and it was the least painful injection I've ever had to barely feel it. It was just like, of course, the arm became a little sore afterwards. I was like, the evening, but at the time of getting the injection, it was just painless.

Just been to me. And you have not had any side effects? So I was feeling extremely sort of listless and dull. But that could also be because she was watching some TV.

So I don't know if I was actually on that point. Yeah. I was fine. Yeah.

So yeah. You got a certificate of some sort, which you get a text message saying that you got a production audit. I want to call it. You have to do it a day.

They call me after eight weeks. Eight weeks. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

That is true. Yeah. No, no, no. I think now the period between two jobs is significantly changed.

It's basically just to stagger the thing because they're like, and also apparently the effectiveness is better if it's taken later. That is the struggle. So this week we have, I mean, the deities likely from the profundity to what I believe is one of the most awesome trolls of the week, in fact, of the year and so far. I can say before COVID-19 impact.

Dad, but in slightly less controversial issues, this is trolling Tesla, another overall company or even a car itself, a Tesla car. And not equal, importantly. We are not rolling dirt. Yeah.

We are not a Serbian group. Yeah. So anyway, not a slagie. Tesla.

S. Yeah. Well done. I'm not sure if he seems to have a couple of bad jokes.

Anyway, so Tesla has, you guys know, of self-driving car fame has a surprisingly outdated way of determining the speed limit of the road that it's turning on. So it has this way where it's basically in the US considering there are a lot of, I mean, road signs are very ubiquitous and not stolen to make random foundry in these places. So these road signs, of course, they detect the speed limit that actually reads it from the road signs itself. What the speed limit for the suite is, I mean, it's about to do that.

Which I found was quite old school because we have the speed limits of older road school, that the data is such. But obviously people found a way to roll this. So all these guys did was just basically just extend, if you can see over here, extend the three on the speed limit of 35, just a little longer. And that made the Tesla's accelerated automatically to 85, so that was the idea of the rate instead of a three.

Wow. So this is where, I mean, just for listening on audio videos, the second stick of the three is just being a little bit more than the speed limit of the three. And the stick of the three is just being extended a little longer to make it look kind of like an eight, so that it might be confused for an eight. And that calls all auto-taught having Tesla's accelerated 85 miles per hour, 35 miles per hour for all streets.

So I thought it would be a delightful troll. That's amazing. And I love how you called that the second stick of the three. That's actually a nice thing.

Hey, I was thinking about calculating it. Yeah, that was the troll of the week. Yeah. So, yeah, that's behind us.

The other one, which is also a very unintentional troll of recent times, which was generally tolling the capitalist economy that we have right now with simple physics was the blockage of the Swiss canal. So, yeah, so let's let's let's explore a little bit of detail what that thing was. So, what the Swiss canal tries was, so let's first look at what the Swiss canal itself is. Or to give it its full Christian, not Christian.

It's full name. Just a simple name. I think it's a lot of the major stuff. Yeah, let's just call it full name from the one.

Yeah, but it's full Christian name. Actually, it's full Arabic name and not a Christian name. Oh, it's actually full Arabic name. No, I also got Arabic Christians too.

It could be Arabic and Christian. Yeah. Jesus himself is a. Oh, you're going to be a Christian.

I was trying to count how quickly we will be getting to the court in a video area in a topic as a B9 as well. But yeah, we are right before I got into the first fact of the show, which is basically quite simple. It's kind of ask Swiss. So, it's Swiss canal canal.

It's not Swiss. But Swiss is the real name of what's called Swiss is the Angelization of it. It's Swiss, which is a city actually the ferry enough to see how the Swiss canal is. It's not entirely based in the city of Swiss.

It's the endpoint of the canal. It starts at both sides and the endpoint is the city of Swiss. So it's called it's named after the endpoint of the canal, not the beginning of it. And it's basically this artificial sea level water.

So first of all, which is also a big misconception. This is not a natural canal. It's been artificially created. There was more connecting land between the two.

But fairly enough, there was historically there has been even before. So this canal was constructed in 1860. It is completed in 1869. There is evidence of since the Egyptian times, which is fairly BC times.

We're not going to say. We're not going to say. We're not going to say. But there were certain temporary canals that were dug to channel the water from the next sea into the particular area because it was quite low line and used to get a little flooded when different tides used to happen.

So there were temporary manmade canals dug from three historic times at various points. And so once these canals were observed, eventually finally, as most marbles are big because of colonial treasures, they're fairly enough to fringe. So this is also an interesting part. Where initially the British farms were actually opposed to the Swiss canal because they controlled the Cape of Good Hope shipping route.

And if you look at the geography of Spain, from the Swiss canal, the first ports are actually all the Mediterranean countries because they are the closest ones to the Swiss canal versus anything coming from the Cape of Good Hope would have to pass through England. So England was the humble land. And so in fact, they were actually quite opposed to it. So the French were actually eating the child for building the Swiss canal where there is the architect Freudian D.

Who formed the Swiss canal company and kind of did some usual colonial underhanded links to the German Empire to construct the canal. Now what's also interesting is when you think of canal, you're thinking of that beach where garbage is rotting next to your house. This is a little bigger than that. It is actually a hundred and ninety three kilometers in length.

It actually has like, and because of this length and the width and the narrow width of the canal, it can only accommodate fifty ships again. But this is almost nonstop where there is like nonstop travel of ships through the day entirely. And it's also like, and what the significance of the Swiss canal can be released. And you can see how it cuts by distance.

But how much it cuts the distance versus the Cape of Good Hope travel around South Africa is that it reduces the journey of almost eight thousand and ninety kilometers from Europe to Asia. And also the journey would also be 14 days shorter, even in modern shipping conditions. So 14 days is obviously in capitalistic terms and in coq. So 14 days makes all the difference.

And that's where the whole world came to a stand still effectively when this particular ship was blocked. Now there's a lot of history of the Swiss canal. So critical that in 1964 there was the real disagreements with the Egyptian premier at the time and the Western European pass. And basically it is the equivalent of my bad time going home.

And he took it off the Swiss canal and said, the bad nobody is allowed. And he basically more importantly than anything else. He said, no Israeli ships will be allowed. So which Israel was like, we are this small by Israel along with the European pass.

They almost descended onto a wall to Israel and Egypt got into that Arab Israeli war at that time. Where eventually there was this resolution and then afterwards everyone came to this. And things got back to normal. So that's where this particular ship makes a big difference.

This particular canal makes a big difference. What was the ship that was passing? Now because this canal is this narrow, it has very strict regulations of which kind of ships can pass through it and how much they can be, what their time is, what their displacement is, all of these become really important things. Now what needs to be understood is literally the ship that got trapped over there was literally at the edge of all the limits.

Like it was literally the edge of every limit that was extended. Like 400 meters in length is the limit of 400 meters in width is the limit of how long the ship can pass through and this ship exactly is that. And if I could construct it in a way that it would be a Swiss canal would be. So the ever given which is by the company Evergreen, which was the biggest, because everyone's only pictures with Evergreen, another site with Evergreen is a parent company, Evergreen is the ship.

Yeah, but one key factor ever given is actually just the middle name of the ship. The full name of the ship is most number of people ever given about shipping. I see somebody has been listening to the Google. Well done.

By the way, I made this joke before Alice was doing it. I saw it on Tony's Twitter. Yeah, I saw it on Tony's Twitter. Yeah, I saw it on Twitter, right?

Yes, I did it. Yeah. So now that Tony has supported us a break, may I also congratulate you for being the first ever person to ever see on Simplified? Where is my data?

Hey, man. I'm not saying you're looking at it. I can't do all of that. We need to maintain a junior or a big information about cars.

All right. This right there was the video. Anyway. One question.

So this is not a two way thing. It's a two way. It's a two way. Yeah.

We have the most basic boats have come out of one end and then the other end. So there'll be times when like the entire kind of like who's going to back up like a bridge. Reminds me of Park Street in Calcutta in the early 18s. So Park Street was a very arterial road.

It's still an arterial road. It's very important road in Calcutta which because of increasing traffic, the police decided it had to be our one way. But people living on the wrong way of the one way protested. So then the police said, okay, till one o'clock in the morning, it's one way in this direction.

After one o'clock till whatever time next day, it's in the other direction. So that was fine except that Calcutta being Calcutta, everyone considered their own watching. Okay. Brilliant.

And I happened to be caught in that and we ended up missing our flight because like there was like there was on severe one way negotiation happening right to the bridge and our taxi couldn't go in. That's why they call it Park Street because... It's a gigantic parking park. Yeah.

But that's what she's telling us when Swiss canal became Park Street for a day. No, no, no, no. Ships have to wait in order to... So this is how yes, so that is true.

They have a waiting area on each end. But what also happens is you don't need to wait at the end of the canal for one ship to pass and then the other ship to pass because the canal is not even in bit that every point in time. There are leaks in the middle of the canal. So there's a bit of leak in the area of the canal, which has a leak inside the canal.

So what about inside of the water bottle? So it becomes like a wider. Yeah, so it becomes like the whole canal becomes a spatter and wider depending on the point of the canal. So in fact how I'm wide in the middle and like the whole person elsewhere.

Wow. So in fact I think that we have a visual medium. I can actually try and depict that a little bit where it is something like that. So as you can see there's a great bit of leak in the middle and there are some holding areas in the middle.

And then some certain areas are actually split both ways. But certain areas are actually really good. So it looks like a due rate. Yeah.

So in some ways when you look at that, what happens is a lot of effects. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. But in some parts due rate in some parts. But as you can see there are holding areas on both ends. So there are like these holding areas where actually ships can wait.

But then afterwards as they pass through in the middle, there are certain times that they wait over here also in the middle and then certain areas are two-way lanes. So you can pass through either way. But there are this particular part as well as this particular part which are very cheap one-way lanes. So actually it reminds me a lot of roads in the Marshall.

You know? It's actually quite similar. So you can see that you pass through stuff. Suddenly you have these two-way lanes and proper highway.

Suddenly transporting into a small boat path where everyone lets someone strike a drive that masses who bought off. And this kind of reminds me of that. And also having recently suffered through that also it reminds me of the human body. These particular problems that you have to do.

So this is exactly what happened. So this is what you have to do. This is what you have to do. This is what happens in Sydney.

Yeah. So the reason I asked about whether it needs to wait at the end was because obviously now that the ship got stuck, people were looking at everything that it did before. It can right before it ended. So basically it actually drew a piece of balls in its trajectory.

So this is really... Yeah. And apparently it is... I assume that it is because you have to wait a certain time before you enter the canal and then you just go round and round.

Like a plane dust before it. Yeah, that is true. There is a lot of... I mean generally also there is a waiting.

And there is also waiting for another reason which I'll get to eventually. So let's talk about... Firstly, do you guys know... So the ship was headed to Netherlands.

Do you guys know where the ship started from? No. It is about 80 kilometers from where I am right now in Malaysia. Thank you, Glamas.

So it started from Malaysia. Presumably following the new study, returning all the cradabits that were sent to the United States. So that is what it was trying to do. So this is going from Malaysia to the Netherlands.

And so this is the other interesting part. One other fact that gets floating around a lot and I actually saw a lot of general as well as slightly racist humor. We talked about how the entire crew of the ship were all Indians in the National. So the entire crew of the ship were Indian National.

So that whole country people were like, oh obviously Indians don't know what to drive all that. This is the full loading of the ship, like how you and the dimensions of your baggage and stuff like that. Yeah, that's okay. That's okay.

That part is very true. That could be very true. But the obstruction is actually nothing to do with the Indian crew at all. Because there is since 2008, there have been standard rules for navigation through the Swiss canal.

So this was not something that was launched out of entire neglect. This was actually probably as... I mean the investigation is going on. This is probably as a blameless situation as you can expect.

It's a dealing with this particular canal. The one thing is for the Swiss canal because it's such a tricky section to navigate for most people who can drive ships, so to speak, navigate ships, is that they have their specific Swiss canal pilots who are Egyptian trained from the Swiss canal authority who board the ship before that ship goes to the Swiss canal and they have to navigate the ship through the canal. So it's not the actual crew that navigates the ship, but the Swiss canal pilots who navigate the ship. So that ship was at that time also having those very experienced, in fact that they released a statement saying that the pilots who were on board were among the most experienced from the Swiss canal authority.

Because the fact that the ship is one of the largest, so they got their most experienced pilots on there. So then why did the ship crash as such? Or get blocked as such? So there are two reasons for it.

One which is fairly simple to understand that this is obviously a container ship. Now for a container ship quite a few, this ship was carrying the capacity of the ship. It was about 20,000 ore Teu, that is 24 Eco-Vell units. Teu is basically one container is one Teu.

24 container is one Teu. And this 24 container has a capacity of 12 tons, each 24 container. So this had 20,000 ore Teu. It's 23 tons.

Each 24 container is something like 23 tons, I remember it. Yeah, 12, I don't know, 12 might be 23, but whatever it is, multiplied by 23,000 was the actual volume of the ship. Now with so many containers all stacked one on top of the other, what also happens obviously in the desert is a lot of dust storms. So what happened was at that time there was a big-ass dust storm.

Like Share 98. Share 98. Share 98. Share 98.

Share 98 kind of blew at this container ship and the container acted as a steel effectively. And they started scaring the ship in that narrow canal that they were passing through. They steered the ship to such an extended, opening of control. And that caused the ship to hit the edges.

Now also it's important to understand, is that a canal, even though it looks about that wide, it's actually even narrower than that. Because the edges are actually, they are shallower. They go down like that and they basically like a bottom of hexagon. Right?

So the second half, the bottom half of hexagon. So it's slanted edges and a flat bottom. Right? So when it's steered towards the left, the depth of the ship started immediately ran around.

So the ship ran around before leaving the beach, edge of the canal, the visible edge of the canal. So that was the other one. Then it switched around for a quantity of the week to shallowness of the week. Sorry.

Now I'm going to let it just something even more physics based on where I will expect my three engineering friends. And what will I? I knew the state of the world. I knew the state of the world.

Hold on. We need a whole perspiration now. We need a perspiration. This is something that is called a bank effect.

The bank effect is when passing through a narrow water body, the storm of the ship is the top edge of the ship. It tends to veer towards the shore. It automatically tends to veer towards the shore because of the Bernoulli principle. It's not a luxury effect.

It's also a luxury effect. It's also a luxury effect. It's also a luxury effect. It's a luxury effect.

So basically, when the gap narrows, the pressure drops in that gap. And the pressure outside on the other side of the gap is the same. So it tends to push. This is why two ships try not to go closer than 40 meters or something like that.

Because when the gap reduces between two ships which are passing each other in the ocean, this is a luxury effect. They could easily collide. And once the drifting starts, the pirates are pretty powerless. You have to do it.

You have to do it. You have to do it. The consumer way of thinking about this is if you're standing at the edge of a train and the door of a train and you're moving and there's another train coming in the other direction at a sufficiently high speed. Despite the gap between the rails, you could theoretically get sucked into the other train or in between.

You can also do an experiment to see what's the right speed for you to be in that limbo state in the middle. Just get sucked in the middle. But like dang in the middle. I feel like mountain do a good job.

It's good to go do something. Anyone who is doing that should please listen to our simplified podcast first. And then decide what it will be. Yeah, yeah.

And usually the buttery and the baroque. So the buttery and the cap baroque. The cap baroque. The cap baroque.

If you put a piece of butter toast on top of a cap and slap it to the top of a cap. What will happen is that the cap will suspend in midair and start spinning around. Basically that is the butter cap. That is the equivalent.

So thanks very much. I'll be right here. I was like, I'm good. I'm good.

I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. And also knew the answer again.

How do generation all the engineers, they have gone off to work for multinational financial cooperations that is now a bank effect. Oh, yeah. The ship of Availability in keeper clothes. I'm sure for the most Road was done.

YING Group with enjoyed slip. We had enough and the base — Mcing Group got fired in the soft mudó on the bank of the canal. the ship is longer than the canal is wide. So when one end got started, the other end went, then the back and fully created one massive, beautiful blockage across the entire canal.

And that's how it got in that position. Now, what? I think, I said, we shouldn't draw the kidney stones analogy of why Lodia, because my mind is going to also place us right now. Please, can you tell me a bit?

I explained this entire thing. So when I saw that image of that my ship, that's all I could think of. At least, I thought that the my ship happened after your operation. Oh, man.

So, so what did they start doing to kind of like, get the ship out firstly? The simple thing being that the forest ship has had this. And you can just simply put a gun and yank it out. I think on Indian, I guess I'll just try that.

Yeah. I was trying to teach it for 15 years. They tried to do it. They tried to, they tried to do jobs too.

Yeah, there's no way to do it. There's the engineer, engineer goes to NASA, and he's like tilt rocket 45 degrees, and now give key credits. That's why my scooter starts. So whatever joke was there, similar thing was the average.

So, I put that in, except for my problem of 24, 24, 10 containers that just randomly falling off. So what it was, first, they evacuated all the remaining ships from the canal, because the thing was primarily what they needed is they need the ship to reflow. The ship has stopped floating. Basically, it got a ground, right?

Because one engine on the ground, the other engine on the ground. Basically, they start on top of a, it's like sitting with your fleet across the bottom with your bomb inside the bottom. So that was effectively what was happening with the ship here. So they had to reflow it.

The whole ship there to reflow it. So first, they removed all the ships so that the volume of water would increase. The second was, they of course tried just tugging it, but that would be there and also tugging indiscriminately at the ship had two issues. One was, if they damaged the ship and if their ship's on the leak, which luckily it didn't, was had the ship for going on the ground, had it actually had like a leak, had to run the leak, because some of the air would start taking water and which would have made this entire operation like a couple of months at least before they could like plug all the leak and reflow the ship again.

But so they will scout it. There was no leak. So they, but if they tug the ship too hard, the containers would fall off. And so that would also be a big problem.

So the other, so basically there are two things that needed. That's all, obviously the, the image that sparked a million means that backhoe standing against the massive ship to get out. Yeah. Well, basically not to dig the ship out.

It was just digging the canal, the edge of the canal out so that there will be more water that came in front of the ship. I love to do that. It was not digging the ship out as that. So they basically wanted water to enter the side of that so that they would have to reach.

And second, they got, they got like other ships which were underwater diggers. And these ships actually, these underwater excavators were like a dog under the ship where they kind of allowed for more water to enter from there. And finally, they had also planned, which in case this initial landing workout was to actually get really like, get helicopters and airlift, all the containers off the ship. Wow.

And because then that would allow the ship to get lighter and therefore it helps the refloting. Luckily enough, in fact, this was actually as efficient refloting operation as there has ever been, because we managed to do it. I'm in India. Go on, go on, go on.

No, what do you laugh at? I'm laughing at it. I'm laughing at it. I know exactly what I'm saying.

I know exactly what I'm saying. I'm not saying that. Please go for it. This is all yours.

No, are you sure? Is this for everybody? Yes, it's for everybody. Yes, it's for everybody.

I'm very sure it's what you're thinking. No, there is a lot of people thinking. Okay, I'm also not sure. There's this guy stuck on a boat and he has a cigarette, but no way of igniting the cigarette.

So what does he do? These are engineering college hostile jokes. Yeah, he picks up some cargo from the boat and throws it out so the boat becomes lighter. And then he uses it later.

And the beautiful thing about this so-called joke is that there are subsequent versions of this other one in which he takes a cigarette and he throws it up and then he catches it. Catch has been matches with that match. He likes it. Another one, Tony, if you want to do- No, go ahead.

Is he bends down? He picks up some water and in his palm and then he does like this. Pippp, pippp, pippp, pippp. Pippp, pippp, pippp.

Pippp, pippp, pippp, pippp, pippp. Pippp, pippp, pippp. Pippp, pippp, pippp, pippp, pippp, pippp. Pippp, pippp, pippp.

Pippp, pippp, pippp, pippp. Pippp, pippp. and however I smitten a wild soo nice. You can speak it, you just kept it.

Oh my god! Oh my god! This is simplified, where we just got both the Bernoulli principle and did what's happened. And Martin flew to the mechanics problems.

Yeah. That does it. This is all right. It's very unleashable.

It's not only a principle and three engineers. So is it a good tagline for a simplified? You move. Fast fast.

You're one of these. Yes, 14 days later. I think that's loaded. The ship went over.

That's all right. Tony, I don't know if this is the final cut of the bugle episode because I saw the live thing. I have a beautiful question. Why did they put me on the ship end?

I guess that he said I don't work in shipping. It's because I'm asking questions like that. But yeah. Yeah.

But she also had done a very nice line which is that, I mean, this is such a f***ing up of epic proportions that no one would be fired for it. That's how it goes. Yeah. Nobody can do it for this.

Yeah. But honestly, that's what really struck me as I was researching about this was literally an entire, the procedure, the way the entire process was happening. I read the whole detail about it and I honestly can't find too many screw ups. I can't find any screw ups really inside this process because every process was exactly as it was supposed to.

Like the only thing I can say is that, oh, okay, they should have no better than to allow. They probably allowed a very large ship into this canal and whatever like that. But as such, I mean, the whole point of the canal is to let these messages pass through and they designed the norms according to that. It was just a really bad combination of circumstances.

And once the issue occurred, they worked in record time to kind of do that and did it as quickly as possible. So this was actually a great end-to-end industry of competence while dealing with unfortunate circumstances. It's very rare in the days, yeah. Yeah.

Exactly. And another beautiful thing from the Google show which Nishkumar was also part of Tony, you might remember this. He said this is something that we can all universally make fun of because there are no, like, the ship didn't say it in places. Nobody was dying as a result of this.

Everybody was safe. Like it wasn't shipping all the time. No, no, no, no, no, no. Everybody universally can just enjoy and make fun of this.

So here is two more ships getting stuck in the Swiss canal and the entire world just. Yeah. Then everyone will disagree with you that there are in two sides to this because a guard stuck on both sides. Sorry, that's a very strong joke of you.

But on the other hand, there was one side story we've talked about which was the Egyptian authority is actually having a massive shortage of those trained, in fact, what happened is a lot of the trained sovents to normally, if I talk because there's a huge backlog that needs to be cleared, all the pilots who are actually on desk duty have all been put on to ship duty right now. So they'll basically that. In fact, old pilots who are in retirement are being called out to come back and do it. We've been retired for five years also to come back and kind of help this out because they need to be extra careful about getting through the canal as such.

And they need those trained guys. So because there's such a backlog, they're actually like, so there's actually a real lack of trained sovents right now. When you're saying that I was thinking like this is not something that artificial intelligence can solve. So which makes me think like in every field, for people who are worried that their jobs will be taken up by artificial intelligence, they should plan screw ups like few years in advance.

Like make human mistakes that only another human mind will be able to solve. So that way, I don't think, like if the Swiss canal became like ice wheels or something, like in Thai smart boat, I don't think it could have solved the situation, like how you solve for something. Like you said before we started recording, this is why you shouldn't have a smart toilet. I think I'm listening to the full explanation.

What do you listen to? Go ahead, Chuck. I forgot what I said. It's really why that should be a smart toilet because of updates.

Oh yeah, because it may not allow you to poop. That's about it. You're not going to be like this. You're not saying this.

You're not saying this. Because when somebody else is... Devices have a habit of updating when they are least expected to update. Unless they start updating, there's nothing you can go on.

And in view of the urgency of certain processes, it is not advisable to have auditable devices into which you poop. So you're still dealing with stateings like downloading updates so you can't download it. So that's pretty much that. So basically what happened is after the eight days, they waited for also height.

The other two debates were about the highest height that they could get. And after the height, along with the height height coupled with the tug boards and all that stuff, it finally pre-aligned the ship and refloted it. And as soon as it was refloted, they kind of slowly navigated it out and they put it on the side. So the ship was, in fact, they almost completed the checks and I think they have determined that the ship is completely segued.

There's no problems despite the groundings in any way. So the ship is actually fine. So I tried to just continue to back. It's a few people are looking at it.

It comes back. It comes back. It'll be like that. Actually, a lot of credit to these guys for slowly mowingering.

But you know, it's a little bell and you bring it. It reminds me of my dad who was learning how to drive and that drive instructor was there. He had a habit every time I died to reverse that. He would be sitting at the name and say, I was looking through one of the biggest ships in the world.

So it's a 399.96 meters long, badminton. And what's interesting is that all the ever ships, and about 10, 15 of them, Golden Genius, Gifted, etc. Even as you only want that as a big piece of it. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. It can carry 219,000 gigatons. Oh, wait, that's gross damage.

No, no, it's gross damage. Gross damage. Gross damage. I saw GPT and I thought it was bigger than I thought it was.

I thought it was bigger than I thought it was bigger than by the way. It's the name of Oljam's last time. Hey, there's a nice simplified the origin of things crossover from the last time the Suez Canal was blocked during the first world war. And basically, there was like 5,000 tons of sandalwood stuck in Mysore.

And that's when Krishna Raja Vadhyar said, okay, this can be shipped. We need to do something with it. And he summoned someone called soap, Shastri and created Mysore sandalwood soap. Oh, I mean, I think there's a tongue twist in there somewhere.

What would a sandalwood do if how much wood would a sandalwood? Soap, Shastri. I want that night. I want to be so, I was so, so, so, so, so.

Right. I read some very, very, very, very, very, like saying Italy, and I'm like, what's the main thing? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's incredible.

Yeah. Yeah. Listen, how incredible headline that I read. How are these?

Soap Shastri watches. Soap Shastri is the witness. Soap Shastri is the main witness. Soap Shastri.

So this is another beautiful headline. How the opening of the Suez Canal transformed to Mumbai and its sex rate. The explanation of the city's sport boomed and Eastern European women started working in its brothel. So there we go.

The Suez Canal has led to a whole bunch of the main sort of like take away from all this for the world. It was like, you know, you're very, very well, so digitized. we have come to realize that how much of the world is actually physical or how much people are on the market. I don't know if this wasn't covered and probably everyone knows it but I'll just limit it in any case.

Swiss Canal basically gave rise to Bombay and killed Calcutta. So before the Swiss Canal it was harder to get to Bombay than Calcutta because the monsoon winds were mostly working you know the regular, but you could go only in the monsoon. So after you turned the Cape of Good Hope getting to Bombay was much harder. So they would carry on further go around Ceylon and then go to Calcutta because all the winds were favorable.

And if I came to the center of British presence in India and when the Swiss Canal opened that made Bombay much more accessible and that gave rise to India. And that slowly led to the decline of Calcutta in the British game of things and made Bombay more important. In related context the creation of the Manchester Canal was the one that allowed for better access of ships coming in via the Cape of Good Hope. So it's kind of later that ships would directly now be able to reach the industrial city of Manchester and this led to which important rivalry Chuck.

I'm guessing Liverpool was his man in it. Liverpool Manchester. I will read what the foundations are found in the creation of the Manchester Ship Canal where Liverpool was the important port city and because of the Manchester Canal Liverpool's importance went down quite significant because ships would directly go to Manchester and that created the rivalry with Liverpool and Manchester and helped later the Liverpool Manchester to the Royal Royal. And as I elucidate another origin of things episode Manchester United really has its shipping industry to thank for the clubs actually it was a assortment of those guys who worked in shipping and the whole industry that came about it that had their own individual FCs would ball club and Manchester initially was called something as some newton Heath.

Newton Heath was one of these suppliers or something like that and pretty interesting a dog was involved. That's one of the old options. What does that mean? A dog was involved?

A dog was involved? Wow okay. Yeah, yeah, a dog was involved. Is this an extinction?

No, no, it's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's a complete deviation from the but then again what happened was I did lead to a complete deviation in this. So what happened was the owner of Newton Heath FC they didn't have any money so they were considering closing the club and then the owner or one employee who was very very gung who about the club he sent his pet dog out to collect funds like with one of those please give to save our local football club and the dog got lost but what happened was he just picked up by the daughter of a local millionaire or something like that and the millionaire took pity on the whole thing funded the whole thing and then that became Manu Nai.

So to this day that dog is celebrated at United. Wow, that's really cool. Yeah, it does. Yeah, fascinating.

I know something about football at least. It's not my decision I did that. I'm just looking to map out the world and so there are these strategic points. So there's a Panama Canal.

There is so as there is a slate of Malacca. I'm just thinking where else in the world right now could like this be cut down like you know where transport could be cut down. So the Panama Canal actually is supposed to be it's probably it's actually broader than the Suez Canal but it can actually accept for some reason accept lesser tonnage than Suez Canal can because of some dimensions or some stuff like that. It is the Panama Canal Fundar is different.

There are two oceans that it connects. The Pacific and the Atlantic. There are different levels. So you need to open it.

The sea level is not the sea level. Yeah, sea level is not the sea level. Yeah. That's the sea level and the below.

It's an engineering masterpiece. Yeah, it's an engineering masterpiece. If we started with Arab Christians maybe we can end on one more too. There's this nice supposed that I saw which is someone saying okay stuck in Egypt then freed during Passover.

Settle got very settled. That is just the most brilliant thing. Brilliant. Masterful.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean you should give a background on the Passover festival for this. That's celebrating the escape of the Jews from Egypt.

Right. The most interesting thing about this is that in the world of everything is polarized. There's one thing everyone could laugh, joke and follow together without any buy. So a real spot of non-controversy in a lot of contribution today.

So Terrain, do you want to sign us off? Yes. So stay safe and stay afloat and stay simplified. Wow.

Stay safe. Stay safe. Stay safe. Stay safe.

Next week. Yeah. Stay safe. Super.

Thanks everyone. Bye.