The secret world of puddles
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The secret world of puddles
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Fri 30 Apr 2021 02.00 EDT
I will hazard a guess that few of us paid regular attention to the Suez canal until a container ship got knocked off course by âa gust of windâ, blocking one of the most important trade routes in the world. Although there were serious repercussions (billions
of poundsâ worth) a 220,000-ton ship being bested by a gentle breeze was in some ways the farcical crisis we all needed.
As the ship refused to budge for an entire week, we followed the story with an intensity that cynics might attribute to there truly being nothing else going on. My favourite commentary on the excitement? The writer Ben Jenkins pointing out that the captain of the first ship to go through the unblocked canal had the opportunity to do âthe funniest thing in the world everâ, by also getting stuck.