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Ever Given in the Suez Canal

Moment · 2021 · Notable

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A grounded ship delayed an estimated $9.6bn in daily trade and became a meme.

Original · Julianne Cona / @fallenhearts17
Hopes and memes rest on ‘tiny’ excavator digging out Suez Canal ship - National | Globalnews.ca
Global News
Julianne Cona on Instagram: "Ship in front of us ran aground while going through the canal and is now stuck sideways looks like we might be here for a little bit... #suezcanal #ranaground #stuck"
Julianne Cona on Instagram
The container ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt, viewed from the International Space Station
NASA JSC ISS image library / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons
A Ship Got Stuck. So He Built A Website.
Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain
Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Suez Canal blockage, March 29, 2021; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2021; ESA
Everybody wants to talk — or laugh — about Suez Canal crisis
FreightWaves / American Shipper
After Suez Canal Container Ship is Unstuck, the Internet Demands: 'PUT IT BACK' | KQED
KQED

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Numbers

Seed to observed peak
6 days
Mar 23 ’21 to Mar 29 ’21
Platforms
6
Started on Instagram
Origin
Organic
Auto & mobility

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Ever Given grounded on March 23. Cona’s photo was followed by Twitter jokes, TikTok songs and a status site. The ship refloated on March 29; an estimated $9.6bn in daily trade had been delayed.

Observed peak within the documented measurement window; not an all-time maximum.

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  1. March 2021

    @fallenhearts17 / Julianne Cona seed · Mar 23 ’21

    Julianne Cona posted a photo of the grounded ship from the vessel behind it.[1][2][3]

    Julianne Cona on Instagram: "Ship in front of us ran aground while going through the canal and is now stuck sideways looks like we might be here for a little bit... #suezcanal #ranaground #stuck"
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  2. @jsrailton / @worace / @CoryDNewman platform jump · Mar 23 ’21

    Twitter users shared the photo, an excavator image label and an Austin Powers GIF.[2]

  3. BBC News press · Mar 23 ’21

    BBC News first published its report on the Suez Canal blockage.[3]

  1. press · Mar 25 ’21

  2. owner response · Mar 25 ’21

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Origin
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Sector
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Region
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