What if the Ever Given ship was stuck in the Columbia River? There’s an app for that
Tug boats freed the monstrous Ever Given container ship on Monday morning from the Suez Canal, ending a weeklong blockage of the critical shipping route.
But what if the 1,400-foot cargo vessel had gotten stuck in the Columbia, Snake or Yakima rivers instead?
Well, Twitter user Garrett Dash Nelson, with the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, has an answer.
He put together a Glitch app that lets anyone put the 220,000-ton Ever Given anywhere in the world.
You can drop a to-scale photo against a background of maps.
This story was originally published March 29, 2021 at 12:05 PM.