How 1 Boat Caused a $400 Million an Hour Traffic Jam

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  • @RealLifeLore
    @RealLifeLore  Před 3 lety +4717

    Comment down below what your preferred method of blocking the Suez Canal in the future would be

  • @BluesMan1234
    @BluesMan1234 Před 3 lety +4849

    “All caused by one ship and 25 people on board”
    Chef in the mess hall -“what the fuck did I do!?”

    • @flyingdutchman8371
      @flyingdutchman8371 Před 3 lety +116

      I think the point of that comment was to have the opposite reaction actually, like only 25 people on the ship, who pretty much didn't even contribute, and it still had drastic consequences.

    • @adrianlegendheart9297
      @adrianlegendheart9297 Před 3 lety +294

      @@flyingdutchman8371 you must be fun at parties

    • @pollux_id2557
      @pollux_id2557 Před 3 lety +21

      @@adrianlegendheart9297 😂wow

    • @idonttalk2768
      @idonttalk2768 Před 3 lety +43

      Me in a nutshell: P U L L T H E B O A T O N T H E O P P O S I T E D I R E C T I O N

    • @shaunlevin5081
      @shaunlevin5081 Před 3 lety +68

      Even though the captain was not at fault, I could imagine that he was just like, "Oh fuck, may have just lost my job."

  • @magha8517
    @magha8517 Před 3 lety +4336

    When your ship was build in taiwan under a japanese company, registered in panama, having an english name, a german captain, and indian crew, carrying chinese goods from malaysia to the netherlands, and getting stuck in egypt
    Mr WorldWide

  • @jonathanjoestar__
    @jonathanjoestar__ Před 3 lety +1771

    *your graphics card has been shipped
    'oh nice lets track the order'
    *last location: Suez Canal

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 3 lety +899

    Suez Canal: blocked
    Cape Town: *This time for Africa*

    • @jooniesjoons4407
      @jooniesjoons4407 Před 3 lety +32

      Cuz it is time for Africa waka waka*****

    • @peachierose3356
      @peachierose3356 Před 3 lety +5

      omg underrated

    • @thatkidkgosi
      @thatkidkgosi Před 3 lety +2

      Haha nice comment

    • @peachierose3356
      @peachierose3356 Před 3 lety +25

      @Vishnu PM you must be fun at parties :) sorry

    • @ksxx
      @ksxx Před 3 lety +9

      Tsamina mina, eh eh
      Waka waka, eh eh
      Tsamina mina zangalewa
      Anawa ah ah

  • @tennesseanproductions
    @tennesseanproductions Před 3 lety +13943

    POV: You are the ship that decided to go around africa, then 2 hours later the evergreen got free

    • @RealLifeLore
      @RealLifeLore  Před 3 lety +4972

      F

    • @aurasky518
      @aurasky518 Před 3 lety +272

      @@RealLifeLore ff

    • @bluecubenn
      @bluecubenn Před 3 lety +201

      @@RealLifeLore f

    • @FatherManus
      @FatherManus Před 3 lety +884

      To be fair, there are hundreds of boats still waiting to go through the canal. An official said that it's going to take weeks to get the traffic back to normal. In the meantime they are still diverting traffic.

    • @hattruck8607
      @hattruck8607 Před 3 lety +52

      F

  • @scottwhitley3392
    @scottwhitley3392 Před 3 lety +2584

    I’m an Engineer on a Container ship. My friends are all really interested in my job all of a sudden

    • @giovanni-cx5fb
      @giovanni-cx5fb Před 3 lety +122

      LMAO I would definitely be one of those friends

    • @irhyn2300
      @irhyn2300 Před 3 lety +28

      It’s interesting man! What ships do you work on?

    • @shotguner4258
      @shotguner4258 Před 3 lety +12

      They’re on drugs

    • @mkmllrc
      @mkmllrc Před 3 lety +5

      Not as Engineer yall think in Movies

    • @scottwhitley3392
      @scottwhitley3392 Před 3 lety +53

      @@mkmllrc we are all chronic alcoholics to be fair

  • @benmgoldberg
    @benmgoldberg Před 3 lety +2709

    It makes me unreasonably mad that the ship says “evergreen” on the side but apparently it’s called “ever given”

    • @melissamacias3715
      @melissamacias3715 Před 3 lety +61

      Ikr!!!

    • @USSCYT
      @USSCYT Před 3 lety +394

      The company is called Evergreen

    • @Stux_28
      @Stux_28 Před 3 lety +15

      It’s kinda like Siam|thailand

    • @ThisNameWasntTaken
      @ThisNameWasntTaken Před 3 lety +105

      i wanted to scream at the narrator "WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING IT THAT? WHAT AM I MISSING???" then i noticed the writing on the front....

    • @benmgoldberg
      @benmgoldberg Před 3 lety +26

      @@ThisNameWasntTaken lmaooo thank you everybody for validating me I thought I was alone on this

  • @emilycampbell6375
    @emilycampbell6375 Před 2 lety +579

    ngl going over 100 years and only having to be closed 3 times? that's a pretty damn good track record, i'm surprised something like this hadn't happened sooner :p

    • @seifhazem7963
      @seifhazem7963 Před 2 lety +13

      one of them was during a war too!

    • @helalatef4454
      @helalatef4454 Před 2 lety +32

      The Suez Canal was closed twice One of them was in 1956 because of the tripartite British-French-Israeli aggression against Egypt and the second in 1967 because of the Israeli aggression against Egypt in the Six-Day War, then it was reopened in 1975 and has not been closed since its reopening except because of Evergevin

    • @HarshitSingh-mg7zt
      @HarshitSingh-mg7zt Před 2 lety +6

      Let's do it again🔥

    • @The-ZebraFinch-Channel
      @The-ZebraFinch-Channel Před 2 lety +1

      @@HarshitSingh-mg7zt ayo

    • @sg3428
      @sg3428 Před 2 lety +5

      Other 2 times during a war, it could be because ship’s size might not have been large enough to get stuck.
      ^No idea true but, just a thought.

  • @TheGroovyGuitarDude
    @TheGroovyGuitarDude Před 3 lety +7431

    0:35 I don’t understand this Empire State Building analogy, what is the Toyota Corolla conversion??

    • @owenbatchelor6878
      @owenbatchelor6878 Před 3 lety +1501

      It’s 96.1 corollas long

    • @mkiwas
      @mkiwas Před 3 lety +527

      @@owenbatchelor6878 where can I get a 0.1 corolla

    • @Rock1290T
      @Rock1290T Před 3 lety +121

      I appreciate the clarifying question. I too have no other frame of reference

    • @bolionce
      @bolionce Před 3 lety +144

      @@mkiwas just buy a civic

    • @theleftuprightatsoldierfield
      @theleftuprightatsoldierfield Před 3 lety +81

      @@mkiwas replacing 2 Corollas with Camrys would give you that extra 0.1 Corolla length

  • @numberwhizz9768
    @numberwhizz9768 Před 3 lety +4077

    We have all been waiting for this since the disaster happened.

    • @aurasky518
      @aurasky518 Před 3 lety +67

      @Abe Lincoln lincoln dude stfu

    • @wafiqal4818
      @wafiqal4818 Před 3 lety +9

      yess i even watched the 8 year traffic jammed video again and again

    • @savbeeing7376
      @savbeeing7376 Před 3 lety +17

      @Abe Lincoln lincoln dude stfu

    • @icarus_2625
      @icarus_2625 Před 3 lety +4

      Lmao what is happening

    • @stingyaviation
      @stingyaviation Před 3 lety +22

      @Abe Lincoln lincoln Get your politics somewhere else plz

  • @mohammedawad1853
    @mohammedawad1853 Před 3 lety +648

    Ships: gets stuck
    Pirates at red sea: it’s our time to shine

    • @Maviolo.
      @Maviolo. Před 3 lety +32

      Lol do you think the Egyptian government will just stand back?

    • @rurunosep
      @rurunosep Před 3 lety +63

      Sounds like the worst time to pirate. lmao Like trying to mug someone in the middle of an idle crowd.

    • @humanman2358
      @humanman2358 Před 3 lety +32

      @@rurunosep that's how movies works. Or if GTA 6 took place around Egypt

    • @the_phen0m639
      @the_phen0m639 Před 3 lety +1

      @@humanman2358 lmao

    • @toastyread2008
      @toastyread2008 Před 3 lety +2

      some people boutta get wooshed

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 3 lety +522

    The Ever Given:
    *The Fast and the Furious: Suez Drift*

  • @sandalphoncpu
    @sandalphoncpu Před 3 lety +5156

    A moment of silence for those who just decided to take the long route around Africa

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Před 3 lety +138

      F

    • @wokeclub1844
      @wokeclub1844 Před 3 lety +808

      But they did make a huge sacrifice tho.. if they hadn't gone across Africa, the delays overall would only be worse
      Huge respect infact

    • @_loois
      @_loois Před 3 lety +13

      F

    • @SanPeacefam
      @SanPeacefam Před 3 lety +83

      That might have been better if it was an exponential effect leading to more than a week's worth of waiting time to get through the canal.

    • @konkoly5183
      @konkoly5183 Před 3 lety +31

      Most turned around to go through the canal as it is that much quicker.

  • @fernbedek6302
    @fernbedek6302 Před 3 lety +863

    You know it’s a big problem when you need to have the celestial bodies in alignment to fix it.

    • @csquared4538
      @csquared4538 Před 3 lety +25

      What if your dog poops on the beach, you don't have a bag to pick it up and when you come back the tide is up, so you have to wait for celestial bodies to align in order to remove the feces from everyone's play area?

    • @fernbedek6302
      @fernbedek6302 Před 3 lety +37

      @@csquared4538 Then you were just being lazy, because plastic bags are generally easy to come by in less time than it takes for the tide to come in.

    • @csquared4538
      @csquared4538 Před 3 lety +6

      @@fernbedek6302 touche

    • @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube
      @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube Před 3 lety +13

      @@csquared4538 Then your dog may actually be several horses.

    • @urphakeandgey6308
      @urphakeandgey6308 Před 3 lety +1

      @@fernbedek6302 Please, any reasonable person would just leave because the tide hopefully washed it away.

  • @windyPlays
    @windyPlays Před 3 lety +355

    When this happened it honestly amazed me that ships are allowed to pass through channels that are more narrow than they are long. Seems like this should have been figured out a long time ago...

    • @theprocrastinationnation4802
      @theprocrastinationnation4802 Před 3 lety +58

      Costs a shit ton of money to expand canals and governments like to skimp

    • @humanman2358
      @humanman2358 Před 3 lety +14

      It's weird and not weird how humans are small but are capable of digging man-made canals. Take a long time though

    • @timothyavendt677
      @timothyavendt677 Před 3 lety +6

      @@theprocrastinationnation4802
      They get so much cargo that i bet they could collect 10+ billion a year in tolls to fund something like that.

    • @theprocrastinationnation4802
      @theprocrastinationnation4802 Před 3 lety +10

      @@timothyavendt677 It's "only" 2 billion a year roughly, but again the Egyptian government doesn't worry about it because they're lazy or have other things to worry about

    • @alimurtaza6318
      @alimurtaza6318 Před 3 lety +6

      @@theprocrastinationnation4802 I mean their lands are desert they have other things to worry about
      Egypt has more desert so it has major weakness of agriculture

  • @chixenlegjo
    @chixenlegjo Před 3 lety +382

    The next guy to go through had the opportunity to do the funniest thing anyone has ever done.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 Před 3 lety +1075

    I heard that both Godzilla and King Kong would stop fighting and work together to move the boat

    • @Soldier_Balls
      @Soldier_Balls Před 3 lety +14

      It was a sucess story tho the ever given got unstuck, proud of them both

    • @Ikreisrond
      @Ikreisrond Před 3 lety +6

      Actually it was the Dutch, again. If there’s a challenge considering water or ships, just call in the Dutch!

    • @NO-vd1mh
      @NO-vd1mh Před 3 lety +24

      @Abe Lincoln lincoln yeah my guy, we understand, you dislike China

    • @danarthur771
      @danarthur771 Před 3 lety +1

      in my universe, mecha godzilla won the fight

    • @deanjordan6053
      @deanjordan6053 Před 3 lety +8

      @Abe Lincoln lincoln :(

  • @ceasze5072
    @ceasze5072 Před 3 lety +1559

    “Tried to make it through the canal, man, can’t make it, can’t make it, the shit’s stuck, out my way sun, BOAT IS STUCK, BOATS STUCK”
    -Captain’s log

    • @muscle2714
      @muscle2714 Před 3 lety +53

      10/10 comment

    • @batler43
      @batler43 Před 3 lety +94

      SCA: PLEASE I BEG YOU

    • @gettinmoney1203
      @gettinmoney1203 Před 3 lety +8

      💀💀💀

    • @garyjohnson4657
      @garyjohnson4657 Před 3 lety +8

      The Captains Log was in his pants, when realized what he had done!!! That is what is known as a Hazelton maneuver, career wise.

    • @justamanofculture12
      @justamanofculture12 Před 3 lety +16

      "Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well 😌."

  • @slimmingboy2694
    @slimmingboy2694 Před 2 lety +222

    I feel so bad for the captain of the ship who couldn’t do a thing on the accident and probably gets fired anyways

    • @IJustFiguredThisOut
      @IJustFiguredThisOut Před 2 lety +27

      If you heard, while in the canal, two, essentially “canal captains” go aboard. They work for the canal and go aboard ships crossing it. They tell the ships crew basically what to do in terms of navigation. It’s usually their say over the normal captain while in the canal. Anyways, they were the ones on the ship that day. I doubt the ships regular captain was fired.

    • @emilyganguly277
      @emilyganguly277 Před 2 lety +4

      that man captain better pay for his mistake in full. Don't play soft ball with men. What an embarrassing captain. Men shouldn't be allowed to drive boats obviosly.

    • @larry-ny5yr
      @larry-ny5yr Před 2 lety +71

      @@emilyganguly277 okay sexist, it wasnt the captains fault, as they said the weather situation was the reason they crashed, but unfortunately you have dementia

    • @Bluey306
      @Bluey306 Před 2 lety +17

      @@emilyganguly277 and you shouldn't be allowed on the internet. go touch some grass emily.

    • @larry-ny5yr
      @larry-ny5yr Před 2 lety +15

      @@Bluey306 look at emily's channel, they really are as embarrassing as we think which is pretty impressive

  • @ctsesh8876
    @ctsesh8876 Před 2 lety +158

    I never realized how big those ships were until I seen the excavator next to it

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann Před 2 lety +24

      Just think about it, those containers are the same ones you also see on trucks on the road.

    • @ronjon7942
      @ronjon7942 Před rokem +3

      My brain still isn't processing the size of the ship. Instead, I'm making the excavator smaller, like the one I rented for some ditch digging at my house.

  • @joostvisser8537
    @joostvisser8537 Před 3 lety +566

    Wait the evergiven only has a crew of 25 on a ship 400 meters long? That sounds like the perfect opportunity to play hide and seek on the ship to pass the time

    • @ricardocabeza6006
      @ricardocabeza6006 Před 3 lety +62

      Most sailors prefer to play who’s in who

    • @Wolf62601
      @Wolf62601 Před 3 lety +16

      @@ricardocabeza6006 what’s that

    • @Akhimed
      @Akhimed Před 3 lety +39

      @@Wolf62601 I’m guessing hiding in the containers xd

    • @deckofficer4705
      @deckofficer4705 Před 3 lety +34

      Don't worry, they have no time to play, working minium 8 hours a day, every day for as long as their contract, maintain the ship, engine in their department, or preventing rust in the deck depatment. Sorry but time to play hide and seek is not a pass time on board.

    • @a.o.e7168
      @a.o.e7168 Před 3 lety

      SAME

  • @MudRogue
    @MudRogue Před 3 lety +2917

    Imagine the dirty looks the Ever Given's Captain got as it passed the other ships that had been waiting.

    • @MrKfleong
      @MrKfleong Před 3 lety +103

      @Clotix gotta thanks mother nature for being the cause and helping us

    • @cutiebaliwFreedownload
      @cutiebaliwFreedownload Před 3 lety +76

      they lost total 10 billion suez canal probably earning lots of money but can't afford proper machinery to remove a ship clog have you see the crane that digging looks old and little and it's only one there response like they have no budget to operate that canal,

    • @null3319
      @null3319 Před 3 lety +21

      @@cutiebaliwFreedownload the fun thing is they charge a shit ton for the passage not including the cost of "corruption" like cigarettes and other wares

    • @Toons595
      @Toons595 Před 3 lety +1

      @Clotix How

    • @Toons595
      @Toons595 Před 3 lety +9

      @Clotix However, the chairman of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority said Saturday, without giving details, that weather conditions "were not the main reasons" for the grounding, and that "there may have been technical or human reasons," the BBC reported. An investigation is ongoing.

  • @farepriceff
    @farepriceff Před 2 lety +52

    I can’t even imagine the captain and crew onboard the EverGiven must’ve felt 💀

  • @Ikcatcher
    @Ikcatcher Před 3 lety +55

    Imagine being the crew of the Ever Given, expecting another average day of sailing, only to suddenly cause the biggest trade block in modern history

  • @waalkzz286
    @waalkzz286 Před 3 lety +766

    No joke, about half a month before that happened I had to do a presentation in school how catastrophic it would be when the Suez channel would be blocked. I based some of my facts from another video of RealLifeLore called "The 8-Yeat Long Worst Traffic Jam in History"

  • @YourPoopDealer
    @YourPoopDealer Před 3 lety +370

    1: Boats float on water
    2: Wait for the low tide and the sandstorms
    3: Cover your ship in cargo
    4: March 2021 - Suez canal "Ever given" incident

  • @arkdotexebuilds5428
    @arkdotexebuilds5428 Před 2 lety +76

    I ordered a weighted blanket a few days before this happened.
    Turned out it was on that very boat 😬
    it arrived eventually but I was just surprised

    • @jackiebarfield8416
      @jackiebarfield8416 Před 2 lety +30

      Then I guess it should be called a " Waited" blanket.🤔😂😂

    • @fid.firdhaus
      @fid.firdhaus Před 2 lety +1

      @@jackiebarfield8416 lmaooo bye

    • @IJustFiguredThisOut
      @IJustFiguredThisOut Před 2 lety +7

      Not calling you a liar but how would you even find that out?

    • @abirchunara7785
      @abirchunara7785 Před 2 lety +5

      I wonder if it could be considered a piece of history like could you go to the museum and be like "this very blanket that I ordered from Amazon was on the ship that caused the biggest traffic jam in the world" I just wanna see the look in the peoples faces like 💀

    • @ananasbanana
      @ananasbanana Před rokem

      @@IJustFiguredThisOutIt is a blatant lie

  • @Flux-da-Foxx
    @Flux-da-Foxx Před 3 lety +19

    The captain on the Evergreen must of been like: “Everybody remember where we parked”

  • @alffanaaras7021
    @alffanaaras7021 Před 3 lety +1073

    "I bet you can't do a u-turn in the suez canal"
    "Hold my beer"

    • @crispylizard8295
      @crispylizard8295 Před 3 lety +51

      Hes still holding that beer to this day...

    • @franksters08
      @franksters08 Před 3 lety +14

      Hold my container

    • @dustbringr
      @dustbringr Před 3 lety +2

      Lool that was good

    • @sakurakou2009
      @sakurakou2009 Před 3 lety +2

      if their was not threat of zionists trying to take over seuz and past history of britisn france and israel letterly trying to invade and take sinai I think egyptians would have tried to make it bigger .. their reason why they not want it to be so big that it get out of control nationalsecurity

    • @RB-ib3mo
      @RB-ib3mo Před 3 lety

      I would love to know what exactly was going through the captain's head when he finally realised what he was after doing. I can imagine he could have built a house with the amount of bricks he was shitting.... and probably have dug a whole new canal with the hole he had managed to dig himself!!

  • @94Warv
    @94Warv Před 3 lety +1838

    Coronavirus: I've killed the worlds economy
    Ever Given: *hold my container*

  • @sr_peedonkeyhatfield1985
    @sr_peedonkeyhatfield1985 Před 3 lety +35

    This is the kind of stuff people will watch like a year from now

  • @wgraham2410
    @wgraham2410 Před 3 lety +61

    Props from this Chicagoan for throwing in the "Willis OR Sears tower" line. It will always be the Sears tower to us.

  • @YovanGabut
    @YovanGabut Před 3 lety +4431

    during this time..
    world's goods supply: 📉
    world's memes supply: 📈

  • @doctoberfest1487
    @doctoberfest1487 Před 3 lety +872

    Evergreen's captain Tokyo Drifted a fricking contanier ship. What a legend

    • @butterflyqueen9260
      @butterflyqueen9260 Před 3 lety +23

      🤣

    • @davisdf3064
      @davisdf3064 Před 3 lety +45

      And then, Tokyo clipped it in the sand

    • @CarFreeSegnitz
      @CarFreeSegnitz Před 3 lety +33

      The captain wasn’t sure if he’d left his oven on and was trying to u-turn to go home and check.

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Před 3 lety +4

      @@davisdf3064 yeh clip more like it because it got stuck

    • @Animaster89
      @Animaster89 Před 3 lety +2

      thats not the Tokyo drift i remember

  • @mikusklavins6418
    @mikusklavins6418 Před 3 lety +49

    So that’s why my aliexpress packages took so long to arrive

  • @crimsonglory7823
    @crimsonglory7823 Před 3 lety +166

    So the ship got stuck in the part of the canal without those adjacent channels, then gets blown over by a sandstorm only for tides to to free it days later. Seems to me like nature finally got bored in quarantine and decided to play a prank on the whole world.

  • @Greendude0101
    @Greendude0101 Před 3 lety +1520

    Imagine being the first ship captain to go through the canal after the Evergiven got unstuck and knowing you could do the funniest thing possible

  • @ax2bxc
    @ax2bxc Před 3 lety +977

    The biggest bruh moment in modern history.

    • @bblunder
      @bblunder Před 3 lety +7

      hahahahahah true

    • @adzdrawss
      @adzdrawss Před 3 lety +2

      true thoooooo

    • @emad3952
      @emad3952 Před 3 lety +2

      Bruh momento

    • @TheGuyThatsNotFunny
      @TheGuyThatsNotFunny Před 3 lety +3

      Nah WW1 was certainly a bigger bruh moment

    • @theviniso
      @theviniso Před 3 lety +2

      I thought bruh moments were bad decisions? This was just bad luck...

  • @christiansukitch3592
    @christiansukitch3592 Před 3 lety +54

    "You go around the horn, like God intended"

  • @nurmuhammadnematov9661
    @nurmuhammadnematov9661 Před 3 lety +6

    Your videos are really attractive and you know they really help me to improve my IELTS listening skills. I'm grateful for you 😊

  • @BonafideJas
    @BonafideJas Před 3 lety +140

    EVERGIVEN is the name of the ship.
    EVERGREEN is the name of the company. He's saying it right

    • @alexie832
      @alexie832 Před 3 lety +4

      Oooooohhhhhh I get it now

    • @kartierglory
      @kartierglory Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you sir

    • @Catsrules1
      @Catsrules1 Před 3 lety +2

      Do all of Evergreen's ships have Ever in them? That is a huge coincidence if it isn't.

    • @BonafideJas
      @BonafideJas Před 3 lety +4

      @@Catsrules1 yes they all have ever in them

    • @aidan404
      @aidan404 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Catsrules1 mhm they all have Ever and then a word beginning with G. Some of the names are Ever Gentle and Ever Genius

  • @Petteri82
    @Petteri82 Před 3 lety +2092

    Calling the Ever Given a boat is the same as calling the Empire State Building a house.

    • @Petteri82
      @Petteri82 Před 3 lety +17

      @@Olsenator Me too. But I would like a boat too.

    • @RexOedipus.
      @RexOedipus. Před 3 lety +12

      Well technically if it can carry another boat in it. It's a ship

    • @clementine_awesomeness
      @clementine_awesomeness Před 3 lety +23

      A ship is still a boat no matter how big there is no maximum boat size

    • @sauce530
      @sauce530 Před 3 lety +3

      What?

    • @johndo3930
      @johndo3930 Před 3 lety +2

      so what ? i got a big house,

  • @Dexsting
    @Dexsting Před 3 lety +8

    Thank you for calling it the Sears tower.

  • @David-nz1bz
    @David-nz1bz Před 3 lety +5

    1:02 Nice

  • @johnnyharris
    @johnnyharris Před 3 lety +2394

    Love this explanation

    • @RealLifeLore
      @RealLifeLore  Před 3 lety +461

      Thanks! Big fan of your videos. Loved your Suez video too 🛳

    • @Max-fo1ig
      @Max-fo1ig Před 3 lety +18

      Oh snap

    • @bealyread
      @bealyread Před 3 lety +9

      brah

    • @SadiTonmoy
      @SadiTonmoy Před 3 lety +43

      I watched both Johnny and RLL videos back to back! Big fan of both! ❤️❤️

    • @dowdican
      @dowdican Před 3 lety +11

      Literally just got done with your video and now RLL made one.

  • @DevSarman
    @DevSarman Před 3 lety +252

    Feels like the sequel video of that 8 years traffic jam.

  • @Zecos
    @Zecos Před 2 lety +9

    Imagine the evergiven’s guilt? *It is the guilt I have when I break a plate in a guests house*

  • @hanson6254
    @hanson6254 Před 3 lety +2

    You always make it very simple to understand . Thank you.

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 Před 3 lety +635

    This will seem like just another random video in the future when we forget about this current event.

    • @jayhill2193
      @jayhill2193 Před 3 lety +38

      I can see Simon Whistler do a video in a couple years: "That time one ship blocked 15% of world trade"

    • @412StepUp
      @412StepUp Před 3 lety

      Yep that’s how it goes.

    • @MolecularMachine
      @MolecularMachine Před 3 lety +8

      False. Ever Given will live on forever in my heart.

    • @irgendwer3610
      @irgendwer3610 Před 3 lety +13

      Tom Scott in 2051: I am at the Suez canal in Egypt where 30 years ago a disaster happened

    • @LordVulcan93
      @LordVulcan93 Před 3 lety +1

      This was not a random event or an accident. Had the ship not been intentionally grounded, you may have seen a nuclear detonation.

  • @KFordmusic
    @KFordmusic Před 3 lety +358

    The first ship after the Ever Given missed the opportunity to pull off the biggest troll in human history by getting stuck about 50 feet further down the canal

    • @krismDK
      @krismDK Před 3 lety +5

      why 50 feet?? i think i am missing something but what?

    • @Zulfarr13
      @Zulfarr13 Před 3 lety +21

      @@krismDK kind of like 1 uping them I think.

    • @thisthatotherdude1128
      @thisthatotherdude1128 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah, welp time to do the waiting game again

    • @simonenoli4418
      @simonenoli4418 Před 2 lety

      Even if they wanted the EVERGIVEN was tugged out till amari lake and escoted by the military.

  • @teegooglycoffeemeat3280
    @teegooglycoffeemeat3280 Před 3 lety +12

    It's funny how the French, Spanish and Portuguese tried to block the Suez canal to cripple that British Empire and all it takes now is a little drift

  • @joneis1
    @joneis1 Před 3 lety

    Great video! Thanks for sharing. Awesome ADM and pilotage!!

  • @avrdr2067
    @avrdr2067 Před 3 lety +404

    Humans: Can’t move a ship
    Mother Nature: fine, ill do it myself

  • @simchadanielburstyn2137
    @simchadanielburstyn2137 Před 3 lety +5

    Just one detail - the wind on March 23 was coming from the south - the same direction the ship was sailing. Otherwise, this was a great explanation.

  • @Ululuro
    @Ululuro Před rokem +49

    This channel always has the wildest comparison. "It's roughly the same weight as the sears tower in chicago" ah thanks mate i can totally grasp that. can you convert that into cubic football fields per fortnight for me

  • @TheDeadAlewives
    @TheDeadAlewives Před 3 lety +468

    I can just imagine someone living in Europe is finally able to find a graphics card for a reasonable price, orders it annnnnd it just happens to be on the Evergiven.

    • @NareshSinghOctagon
      @NareshSinghOctagon Před 3 lety +34

      Worse still,it's the ship that came at the very start of the incident,decided to go around Afirca and was just past the cape when the Evergiven was freed.

    • @motchiman5423
      @motchiman5423 Před 3 lety +1

      I saw that meme lmao😂

    • @Doofens
      @Doofens Před 3 lety +2

      you think US graphics cards are made in the US? XD

    • @TheDeadAlewives
      @TheDeadAlewives Před 3 lety +5

      @@Doofens What? No, what gave you that idea?

    • @totallynotme8153
      @totallynotme8153 Před 3 lety +1

      @@TheDeadAlewives so the ships have to go through the canal to go to the usa as well.

  • @AdamSpanier
    @AdamSpanier Před 3 lety +246

    Humans: we are invincible!
    Wind: Hold my beer.
    Humans: We can fix this!
    Tide: Hold my beer.

  • @adoptbutler5224
    @adoptbutler5224 Před 2 lety +3

    I actually felt the traffic itself,
    My dad was going out to buy wires and them the salesmen told that they had shortage of wires because of the suez crisis

  • @stillwaitingonmymatchwithj8765

    I was going through the Suez Canal during this event on an aircraft carrier. We jumped straight to the front of the line, but yes, there were TONS of ships waiting just outside of the canal.

  • @royxeph_arcanex
    @royxeph_arcanex Před 3 lety +103

    I live in Haifa, a port city not geographically far from Suez Canal.
    During this whole deal there was an unusually high number of vessels that could be seen at the port, and as far as I understand it some of them were probably ships heading towards the canal that just preferred to stay by our port and not depart until the traffic jam in Suez lifts.
    Definitely quite a memorable experience, never saw so many vessels in our port at the same time

    • @hypernovic5301
      @hypernovic5301 Před 3 lety +3

      Take photos and try to document it,
      This is actually once in a lifetime moment.

    • @crg1376
      @crg1376 Před 3 lety +3

      @@hypernovic5301 that's what you think...

    • @walleras
      @walleras Před 3 lety

      Death to the Zionist state, Hashem is one!

  • @farrellwilson5468
    @farrellwilson5468 Před 3 lety +355

    Corona virus: it is a pleasure to destroy the economy with you my friend
    Ever Given: I never gonna forget this

    • @urrealdadlolololol4204
      @urrealdadlolololol4204 Před 3 lety +5

      Both those events were done on purpose

    • @urrealdadlolololol4204
      @urrealdadlolololol4204 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jeremyjackson7429 nobody asked for your comment either

    • @ricardocabeza6006
      @ricardocabeza6006 Před 3 lety +7

      @@urrealdadlolololol4204... What style of tin foil hat do you wear?

    • @frnchfryR6
      @frnchfryR6 Před 3 lety +4

      @@ricardocabeza6006 it’s not even that bizarre of a conspiracy theory

    • @a.o.e7168
      @a.o.e7168 Před 3 lety +1

      Meh We already Lose Billiona Because of Natural Disasters that Happens Every Week And month

  • @Max-kp3ir
    @Max-kp3ir Před 3 lety +4

    Opra to Megan - "Where you a container ship or a contained ship

  • @Octi-ku4yf
    @Octi-ku4yf Před 3 lety +6

    Aparently an evergreen truck also caused a traffic jam in Hong Kong
    Now we just wait for Eva air to do Something random

  • @DavidJamesHenry
    @DavidJamesHenry Před 3 lety +403

    The next ship in line: I'm gonna do what's called a *pro gamer move*

    • @ricardocabeza6006
      @ricardocabeza6006 Před 3 lety +29

      👇🏿 years you’ve been an incel

    • @DavidJamesHenry
      @DavidJamesHenry Před 3 lety +9

      @@neoupath8823 I mean, you don't have to.

    • @DesignByKirk
      @DesignByKirk Před 3 lety +4

      what is a "pro gamer move" in this scenario?

    • @unionmen2312
      @unionmen2312 Před 3 lety +1

      Your joke is unfunny, and is practically already used. I am going to ask you to leave.

    • @Am_Yeff
      @Am_Yeff Před 3 lety +19

      Everyone: Overused jokes are bad
      Also everyone: Funny man in hazmat suit sus

  • @gmbackrank6037
    @gmbackrank6037 Před 3 lety +863

    Ship: I'm stuck
    Step-ship: Here I come!

  • @1EVERTONION
    @1EVERTONION Před 3 lety +10

    If you ever have a bad day at work, just remember nothing can go as bad and costly as this

  • @Ayrshore
    @Ayrshore Před 3 lety +13

    I'm guessing the map you've used is Mercator? It would look like an even bigger detour if Africa was to actual scale.

    • @Chocolatnave123
      @Chocolatnave123 Před 3 lety +1

      not really? look at it in google maps, its the same size

    • @fwdgd
      @fwdgd Před 2 lety +1

      anything close to the equator is more accurate than the landmasses far from it

  • @themusicmaker13
    @themusicmaker13 Před 3 lety +646

    I bet you they'll make a movie based on this event a few years in the future

    • @palangnar3588
      @palangnar3588 Před 3 lety +87

      And do you know who is going to be acting in it...Tom Hanks !!!

    • @khansahb8
      @khansahb8 Před 3 lety +33

      That would be a boring movie.

    • @palangnar3588
      @palangnar3588 Před 3 lety +54

      @@khansahb8... No, because Hollywood would play with the story, add to it , twist the situation around and make it good, that's what they good about !

    • @sleepyrowdy1826
      @sleepyrowdy1826 Před 3 lety +17

      @@palangnar3588 captain philips flashback

    • @fouadix
      @fouadix Před 3 lety +1

      And why r u pissed huh

  • @EESHANDACH
    @EESHANDACH Před 3 lety +250

    I was waiting for this video. This was bound to happen hahaha

  • @kgoutdoorsolutions430

    Reallifelore, you really did a great job on this video. Thank you for your hard work.

    • @ta1708
      @ta1708 Před rokem +1

      bruh this video was like an one of those essays i used to write in school, just adding unimportant bloatwords to fill the word quota. This video could have been 5 minutes long and give the same amount of information

  • @HarshitSingh-mg7zt
    @HarshitSingh-mg7zt Před 2 lety +2

    *This takes:*
    _"Step bro, I'm stuck"_
    to a whole another level 🌝

  • @KaiserMattTygore927
    @KaiserMattTygore927 Před 3 lety +541

    The Ever Given incident proves we live in a dark comedy

    • @danielretardo7075
      @danielretardo7075 Před 3 lety

      @@DyslexicMitochondria omg hi! I watch ur videos. Absolutely love ur channeI. Sooo underrated

    • @inigobantok1579
      @inigobantok1579 Před 3 lety +5

      Why? Sure human error but I think you're overblowing this with memes and crap

    • @theluftwaffle1
      @theluftwaffle1 Před 3 lety

      Love the captain or hate him, he’ll be remembered for awhile. More so then if he passed through the canal normally.

    • @DerVolman
      @DerVolman Před 3 lety

      @@inigobantok1579 true

    • @easyeden5620
      @easyeden5620 Před 3 lety +8

      isn't it called the evergreen tho

  • @dark_side9
    @dark_side9 Před 3 lety +523

    Lesson learnt; Ever Given has 10 siblings that could ram the bank the same way and block the waterway once again if similar error happens. Ever Golden, Ever Genius, Ever Gifted, Ever Glory, Ever Globe, Ever Goods, Ever Grade, Ever Gentle, Ever Govern, Ever Greet

    • @dcklein85
      @dcklein85 Před 3 lety +158

      10 bucks on Ever Genius

    • @USSAnimeNCC-
      @USSAnimeNCC- Před 3 lety +5

      @@dcklein85 same

    • @aidenmclaughlin1076
      @aidenmclaughlin1076 Před 3 lety +29

      They could’ve come up with some better names

    • @RealCadde
      @RealCadde Před 3 lety +26

      @@robertcrawshaw9978 Send them all in at the same time and ram them all into the same bank?

    • @rusuproductions7474
      @rusuproductions7474 Před 3 lety +23

      Placing my bet on ever gentle... it will not be gentle when blocking trade tho

  • @mladen190
    @mladen190 Před 3 lety +9

    Mom: why didnt you get all the groceries i have listed?
    Me: there was a traffic jam caused by an empire state building size ship

  • @alcidezvlog
    @alcidezvlog Před rokem

    Love how you pass information.

  • @sathyakummarapurugu4645
    @sathyakummarapurugu4645 Před 3 lety +752

    Everegiven captain: actually was doing his or her job right and was stuck because of a sandstorm
    Memers: Unfortunately for you history will not see it that way.

    • @australiananarchist480
      @australiananarchist480 Před 3 lety +9

      *Captain

    • @sathyakummarapurugu4645
      @sathyakummarapurugu4645 Před 3 lety +3

      @@australiananarchist480 my b

    • @LnsTchTps
      @LnsTchTps Před 3 lety +1

      @@sathyakummarapurugu4645 technically they are the same thing

    • @NekRulez
      @NekRulez Před 3 lety +20

      The only winner was that one driver who's boss sent him to help dig out the boat not knowing the full scale of the situation. He and his machinery is now famous.

    • @australiananarchist480
      @australiananarchist480 Před 3 lety +8

      @@LnsTchTps if I ever hear someone say "drive a ship" I will slaughter 7 children in rage. A captain sails a ship, a driver drives a car, and pilot flies a plane

  • @Dragon-vc9gt
    @Dragon-vc9gt Před 3 lety +152

    Next up on Wendover Productions “The Logistics of the Suez Canal”

  • @nemod3338
    @nemod3338 Před 3 lety +3

    No matter how big ports and canals are build, shipping companies always ahead with size of their ships.

  • @user-ru1jo5rc3t
    @user-ru1jo5rc3t Před 3 lety +99

    Meanwhile in an alternate universe: After the Evergiven was free another sandstorm hit the Evergiven making it stuck again

    • @skeratix11
      @skeratix11 Před 3 lety +8

      And then it becomes a paradox

    • @MM-cg9tk
      @MM-cg9tk Před 3 lety +15

      The everstuck ship

    • @jovannklasis8276
      @jovannklasis8276 Před 3 lety +2

      Its evergreen

    • @user-ru1jo5rc3t
      @user-ru1jo5rc3t Před 3 lety +4

      @@jovannklasis8276 evergreen is the company, evergiven is the ship

    • @danonck
      @danonck Před 3 lety +4

      If it was still 2020 that's what would happen for sure

  • @IceDragon289
    @IceDragon289 Před 3 lety +552

    So Mother Nature got the Evergiven stuck, then got it un-stuck? Guess she was bored and wanted to screw with us.

    • @sharkface129
      @sharkface129 Před 3 lety +7

      @CZcams Account literally at 0:26 in the video, you can see the ship's name on the stern. there are better ways to spend your time than wallowing in self assured ignorance, ya know.

    • @ATSucks1
      @ATSucks1 Před 3 lety +2

      @@sharkface129 Evergreen is the company name that leased the ship out. It's registered as the Evergiven. Dont ask me why, I find it stupid and confusing myself.

    • @ATSucks1
      @ATSucks1 Před 3 lety +3

      Acutally the ship was floated out. The tow boats couldnt do it alone so inflatwable ship floats were put under and around. Lifted the ship up the few feet needed for the tows to pull her away. The Evergiven was then told "no, you sail around Africa. No second chances through our canal"

    • @ihatemotionblur_3255
      @ihatemotionblur_3255 Před 3 lety +2

      At this point, humans *are* mother nature

    • @pratikdas3194
      @pratikdas3194 Před 3 lety +1

      hElp mE sTeP MoM nAtUre Im sTUck

  • @Hokuhikene
    @Hokuhikene Před 3 lety +4

    murphy's law in action is frikin hilarious to watch🤣

  • @TheJewishSnowboader
    @TheJewishSnowboader Před rokem +1

    Hello real life lore, i love your videos

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile Před 3 lety +95

    It's like the world economy literally having a heart attack.

  • @joseluisfernandez6592
    @joseluisfernandez6592 Před 3 lety +573

    Evergreen: Finally I'm free and now I can go to Netherlands
    Spain and Morocco: shit, Evergreen is going to block strait of Gibraltar

    • @collinchan6000
      @collinchan6000 Před 3 lety +34

      Nah, strait of Gibraltar is 1.3km which is too wide for it to get stuck

    • @lonniebailey4989
      @lonniebailey4989 Před 3 lety +32

      But Gibraltar is owned by the British. Wouldn’t that make it a British and Moroccan problem?
      I’m only joking, so don’t whooosh me.

    • @joseluisfernandez6592
      @joseluisfernandez6592 Před 3 lety +57

      @@collinchan6000Strait of Gibraltar is 14km wide, and it was a joke

    • @joseluisfernandez6592
      @joseluisfernandez6592 Před 3 lety +8

      @@lonniebailey4989 Gibraltar doesn't have territoral waters, so UK doesn't has the opportunity to decide nothing, only Morocco and Spain

    • @streetvulture8263
      @streetvulture8263 Před 3 lety +1

      Germany?

  • @blutadlerx
    @blutadlerx Před 3 lety +23

    German news pranked me on April 1st, that it got stuck again. I laughed my ass of 😂😂

  • @llamajammies5801
    @llamajammies5801 Před 3 lety +1

    In case anyone else was wondering too:
    Ever Given (IMO 9811000) is one of 13 container ships built to the Imabari 20000 design developed by Imabari Shipbuilding, 11 of which have been chartered by Evergreen Marine with names starting with Ever G-.

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978

    If the captain of Evergreen used skillshare he wouldn't get stuck.

    • @jakebeaudry3888
      @jakebeaudry3888 Před 3 lety +24

      You can take control of a ship yourself if you play World of Warships.

    • @DyslexicMitochondria
      @DyslexicMitochondria Před 3 lety +24

      He didnt play enough raid shadow legends

    • @dr.floridaman4805
      @dr.floridaman4805 Před 3 lety +10

      Autopilot?
      Hacked?
      Yes.
      Evergiven drew a dick in the sea right before crashing.

    • @finallychangedmyname3614
      @finallychangedmyname3614 Před 3 lety +19

      If the suez canal used nord vpn it wouldn't have a ship invading it

    • @jakebeaudry3888
      @jakebeaudry3888 Před 3 lety +1

      @@dr.floridaman4805 such a Florida Man lol.

  • @waddupjd
    @waddupjd Před 3 lety +495

    Evergiven: "I'm stuck step ship!"

  • @mumr4268
    @mumr4268 Před 3 lety

    You are great...I totally understood this news story!!!!!

  • @Anonymous-lv1jm
    @Anonymous-lv1jm Před 3 lety

    It’s amazing how fast we can get documentaries nowadays

  • @ajrobbins368
    @ajrobbins368 Před 3 lety +302

    2:12 Can we just stop to appreciate how efficient ships have become?
    Just 10 days to travel thousands of miles.

    • @funky555
      @funky555 Před 3 lety +3

      planes

    • @panda4247
      @panda4247 Před 3 lety +51

      Planes are faster. Ships are much much more efficient (operating cost per kilometer per kg of cargo)

    • @standby7563
      @standby7563 Před 3 lety +15

      @@panda4247 theres a reason that shipping companies don’t just use planes for everything though.

    • @panda4247
      @panda4247 Před 3 lety +19

      @@standby7563 I know. I just stated it. they are cheaper to operate (per kilogram of cargo)

    • @asmylia9880
      @asmylia9880 Před 3 lety +3

      Freight trains be like:
      Are we jokes to you?

  • @xduniolaki6894
    @xduniolaki6894 Před 3 lety +578

    "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" - Murphy's law

    • @MrScrawnjuan
      @MrScrawnjuan Před 3 lety +21

      "What it means is whatever can happen, will happen"

    • @elsebas3167
      @elsebas3167 Před 3 lety +7

      Murphy’s law never meant something BAD will happen

    • @arafat8591
      @arafat8591 Před 3 lety +6

      I will get inside a black hole..to find if you are right😌

    • @reality5195
      @reality5195 Před 3 lety

      stop talking about that show no one cares

    • @scotandiamapping4549
      @scotandiamapping4549 Před 3 lety

      Man I wish that guy was around during the Darien

  • @Ceece20
    @Ceece20 Před 3 lety +2

    Oh thank you for actually calling it the Sears tower.

  • @nortonhatfield7312
    @nortonhatfield7312 Před 2 lety +2

    I am surprised that they couldn't take the ship out of the canal with a boat trailer and haul by road to the Mediterranean sea.

  • @dylanatkinson9605
    @dylanatkinson9605 Před 3 lety +465

    Humanity: *trying to free the Evergiven*
    Mother Nature: “Fine, I’ll do it myself.”

    • @thegamemaster2000
      @thegamemaster2000 Před 3 lety +29

      Humanity: GOOD, BECAUSE YOU STARTED THIS!!

    • @marielcarey4288
      @marielcarey4288 Před 3 lety +12

      @@thegamemaster2000
      Mother Nature: _frees Cargo Ship_ "Ugh. Nobody helps in this world."

    • @MrKfleong
      @MrKfleong Před 3 lety +6

      @@thegamemaster2000 mother nature: is sending a one metal machine gonna help?

    • @r3dpowel796
      @r3dpowel796 Před 3 lety +2

      Mother nature made it stuck

    • @sigmanerd8553
      @sigmanerd8553 Před 3 lety +4

      Ya mother nature was also the same thing that got them stuck in the first place lol

  • @IRAQIWILDMAN1
    @IRAQIWILDMAN1 Před 3 lety +226

    Ever Given is the name of the ship. Evergreen is the company that leases this ship.

    • @filipe2338
      @filipe2338 Před 3 lety +22

      Thanks for clarifying. I've been seeing both names been used interchangeably

    • @jeremylawson9380
      @jeremylawson9380 Před 3 lety +4

      ohhh ok...i was about to say something lol

    • @eyrissy
      @eyrissy Před 3 lety

      Yeah, it a pet peeve of mine when people confuse it

    • @joeblogs9362
      @joeblogs9362 Před 3 lety

      Look at europe to the size of africa and its flooded with migrants look what is happening to europe

    • @eltiburon7626
      @eltiburon7626 Před 3 lety

      @@joeblogs9362 que?

  • @jasonglebe3235
    @jasonglebe3235 Před 3 lety +4

    Rumor has it the crew of the Ever Given was listening to "Gas Gas Gas" when they started drifting.

  • @miedzianytv8987
    @miedzianytv8987 Před 3 lety +8

    Well, I guess we'll have to find another way to India 🎵

  • @Windows11Pro22
    @Windows11Pro22 Před 3 lety +156

    Ship: *gets stuck*
    Memers: **i can milk you**