The developers of the Microsoft Flight Simulator promised gamers the utmost degree of realism – the game synchronizes data on weather conditions, traffic in the air and, of course, provides a reliable map of planet Earth. Moreover, the authors of the project decided to give fans the opportunity to create their own mods in order to refine the virtual world and expand the arsenal of vehicles not only with Microsoft resources. Enthusiasts actively use this opportunity, a striking example of which is the new mod with the container ship Ever Given (the second name is EverGreen) from the Japanese company Shoei Kisen Kaisha, which has been blocking the Suez Canal since March 23.
Cargo ship stuck in Microsoft Flight Simulator pic.twitter.com/SczumWI5mD
– Mat Velloso (@matvelloso) March 28, 2021
This event was actively discussed on the Internet, since having run aground, the ship completely blocked the only sea route. And while the excavators were digging out the ship so that it could turn around and continue along the canal, hundreds of other ships were corny anchored, waiting for their turn to pass. Fans of the video game, like many users on the Internet, decided to play a trick on this event, which brought a lot of headaches to companies from all over the world (losses from channel blocking are estimated at millions of dollars). They created a full 3D model of the ship and added it to the same location in the Suez Canal so that everyone could fly over the place and look at the huge vessel being dug up by excavators.
The MV Ever Given was successfully re-floated at 04:30 lt 29/03/2021. She is being secured at the moment. More information about next steps will follow once they are known. #suezcanel #maritime pic.twitter.com/f3iuYYiRRi
— Inchcape Shipping (@Inchcape_SS) March 29, 2021
However, the joke turned out to be irrelevant – today, March 29, in the morning, it was still possible to remove the Ever Given ship from the land, after which the tugs deployed the container ship and continued to move along the canal. The information publication Bloomberg, citing its sources, reported that the workers had to dig up 27,000 cubic meters of sand so that the tugs could turn the ship.
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