Is that ship still stuck?
I don't think people are giving enough credit to <i>how</i> stuck the ship is.<p>Look at some of the photos of the front of it.  Look at how far out of the water it is sitting.  The ship might look like that if it were totally empty, but not when it is full of containers like this.<p>Some people saying: just drag it off of the sand.  Okay!  And what happens when that causes you to rip a hole into the hull of the ship?  Now it's <i>really</i> stuck.<p>Some people have suggested unloading the ship.  I don't think you realize the infrastructure required to unload a ship.  You're basically asking to build a port in the middle of the egyptian desert.  That isn't going to happen.<p>It's really stuck.  It's probably going to take a couple of weeks to get it unstuck.