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Inside the 144-hour scramble to free the giant ship stuck in the Suez Canal Sudarsan Raghavan, Siobhán O Grady, Steve Hendrix © Mahmoud Khaled/Getty Images The Ever Given, stuck in the Suez Canal on Sunday in Suez, Egypt. ISMAILIA, Egypt In the predawn dark, Magdy Gamal sat in the bridge of the Mosaed 2 and stared up at an iron wall of futility. So far, nothing in six frantic, hazardous days of effort had budged the massive bulk of the Ever Given, 200,000 tons of steel and consumer goods blocking the fourth-busiest shipping lane in the world. Day after day, the unmoving mass had loomed over a beetle-like swarm of machinery and humans excavators, dredgers, tugboats that dug and pushed and pulled to no avail. With the engines and cables of the Mosaed 2 and the other tugs straining to the breaking point, every attempt to loosen gravity’s grip on that hull had failed with each tide that deserted them, the waters receding in their unrelenting cycle.

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