I was once, in the mists of time, a Navy Quartermaster and was rated as a "Master Helmsman" (which sounds oddly porny, now that I type it) on the USS Kitty Hawk, a now-decommed conventional aircraft carrier.

We would occasionally (or fairly frequently, on a long deployment like a WestPac) do an operation called an "UNREP", short for "Underway Replenishment" with a supply ship alongside, moving at around 10 knots, and the requirement to keep the ships on the same course (with no more than a .5 degree correction within the safety margin), and I can attest that it was VERY difficult to maintain a straight course within that standard for any length of time.

Now, the Ever Given is not that much longer than the Shitty Kitty, but it displaces nearly four times as much when fully loaded, and its draft above the waterline dwarfs that of an aircraft carrier. I actually recall being alongside a supertanker in a port in Dubai (Mina Jebel Ali) and being amazed at needing to look nearly straight up to see the deck of the tanker.

Keeping a ship with that much sail area going in a straight line, while operating under "Restricted Maneuvering" rules is VERY difficult, and with the reported high wind gusts, it would not take very much for a small course correction to overshoot and cause an uncontrolled swing, as apparently happened here. GPS and maps are not really relevant here, as the width of the canal is within the margin of error of most systems.

Yes, I can see your point about virtue signaling and all, but it is really just confusing to me why having a professional level camera (or at least one that can produce images that would have been only possible with professional equipment just a few years ago) should be a selling point for a cell phone.

I get that there may be a niche that this fits, but I cannot imagine that there are that many people out there that will really benefit from it..

Then again, we're all constantly bombarded with ads and enticements to purchase stuff with capabilities we'll never use, so I guess I'm just being crabby.

I mean, it's neat and all, but how is that really worth whatever price premium is being placed on the phone as a result of the super spiffy camera?

Hasselblad is a well-known and respected brand, but to me the utility of putting a Leica or Hasselblad lens on what is essentially a point-and-shoot camera is akin to using a solid gold RCA cable to connect two bits of stereo equipment.