Too close for comfort in the Suez Canal

摘要

Because of morning fog, there was a build-up of slow-moving traffic in the Great Bitter Lake. The lake anchorages were congested with vessels in the large southbound convoy that anchors there while the northbound convoy passes through. As a result of the bottleneck, northbound vessels were fanning out on entering the lake and idling through it within and alongside both marked lanes of the channel.