When I knew I was going to Panama and I had people around the world first linked him with some of the Canal. And the fact that it was going to Panama had to go see the Canal.
I was lucky with that one of the Peruvian-Santiago, with whom I worked was very hospitable and the last day was the great detail in his car to take me to the Miraflores Locks and there with me. The poor had double merit because then I have been told plenty of times since when is a typical visit is going to see the boats crossing the
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addition to the role of the aforementioned financial and logistical Building the channel also plays a tourist, because, for a fee, you can visit the Miraflores Locks (one of three that has the channel to raise and lower ships on the sea \u200b\u200blevel).
I will just share curiosities that they had during the visit: the construction of the Canal began to carry out France, as he had done years before the Suez Canal, however, left the project to the large number of deceased workers ( these deaths were not due to the inherent dangers of the work but to diseases transmitted by mosquitoes of the Panamanian jungle.) Then came the usual, Americans, appropriate them, and completed the work, staying the operation of the Canal and two stretches of 8 km on both sides of the Canal until 1999, when the channel became fully Panama. The engineering of locks is majestic and simple at the same time, there are no pumps or motors that move the water, is based on the theory of communicating vessels, pure pure gravity and hydraulics. The toll is by the ton, and the ship you want to use the channel must pay over 48 hours in advance, so the Panamanians are delighted with the rather large and heavy-laden boats to cross the small tarball American isthmus. This year began the redevelopment of the canal, why?, Because the new supertankers and not fit for current dimensions. Crossing the channel, the Caribbean to the Pacific or vice versa, takes 3 days, so time is due to waiting hours to overcome the locks, because the shipping is very congested. Despite how expensive it can be the toll, the shipping will always be worth it financially afford instead of circumnavigating South America, with time and refueling that entails, apart from the always dangerous passage of Cape Horn. Another curiosity is that the Panama Canal is the only place where the government of the boat is not the captain but also of the Panama Canal.
Some ferries carry the boat up the locks, once inside a locomotive dragged the boat. In this first picture the first lock is full, ie, the boat has not gone down to sea level.
The lock has been emptied, and the water is going down the boat, at this point, the locomotive dragged the boat to the next lock, where the procedure is repeated.
You can be in motion, fast motion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXsto9qtG0U
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