Weird Techniques the Panama Canal Uses to Move World’s Largest Ships

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  • @deksea
    @deksea 2 роки тому +26

    So where are these "weird" techniques referenced in the description?? Never saw them. This was more a basic tutorial about tugboats for the layman.

  • @jaswindersekhon4949
    @jaswindersekhon4949 Рік тому +8

    started as a video about panama canal , turned into a video about tug boats. magical !!!!!!1

  • @samijansamijan7052
    @samijansamijan7052 Рік тому +3

    Sangat luarbiasa kapal kapal raksasa dengan teknologi canggih petir kemas bisa ribuan bisa di bawa

  • @CharlieBrown0507
    @CharlieBrown0507 2 роки тому +11

    Nice video but I think you were describing the new locks while showing the old ones. Agua Clara is the new one.

  • @johnwgarrett1
    @johnwgarrett1 2 роки тому +22

    Cool video about tugboats. Missed the details about engineering the Panama Canal. Was hoping for answers to quotations like these: Why are locks necessary? Why not just dig a big trench? How is the water pumped to raise the water level in the locks? What happens to the excess water? Does it get dumped into the ocean, or reused?

    • @firestar7188
      @firestar7188 2 роки тому +8

      Panama ( Colombia ) The Spanish saw first the small piece of land between the Carribean Sea and the Pacific Ocean and wanted to
      dig a Canal there. But the Spanish King Phillip 2 nd ( 1527 - 1598 ) did not want to dig a Canal ( This land was made by God
      King Phillip did not want to change that ) . Then years and years later the French ( Ferdinand de Lesseps ) he made the Suez Canal
      wanted to dig the Panama Canal in 1881 - 1899. De Lesseps wanted to make a seal level canal ( No locks just like the Suez canal )
      But de Lesseps failed he got beaten by the unstabelle ground the rain the jungle the wild rivers ( Rio Charges )yellow fever and malaria.
      After de Lesseps attemps the USA stepped in ( 1904 -1914 ) . The Usa also got the same problems the unstable ground the yellow fever
      malaria etc and also failed. But then The Usa they atacked the fever and malaria. They also did not want to dig the Canal at sea level
      The Panama canal is now about 20 Meter above sea level . How does the Panama canal work.??
      The Americans tamed the Rio Chagres River. This river now feeds the Gatun ( fresh water lake )
      The Usa now also needed to built the Locks , Gatun Locks , Pedro Miguel locks and Miraflores Locks ,
      Today there are also new and bigger locks Agua Clara locks and Cocoli Locks .
      But all of these locks are fed by river ( fresh ) water, If a ship uses the locks lots of fresh water gets to the oceans.
      The 2 new bigger locks have water saving basins.
      I advice you to G gle Panama Canal and read the article on Wiki...
      Btw No water is pumped it just flows from the lakes and the locks to the sea... ( Gatun Miraflores )

    • @johnwgarrett1
      @johnwgarrett1 2 роки тому +3

      @@firestar7188 that's a lot of detail. Thanks for sharing that!

    • @phil2268
      @phil2268 Рік тому +3

      The French tried to dig a big trench but it was way too much to excavate. Like saying we can move Mount Everest. The water only moves with gravity. All the water goes out to sea which has become an issue during dry years.

    • @eddiedegoede365
      @eddiedegoede365 Рік тому +3

      Sea level canal is not possible due to different sea levels on the two sides

    • @denali9449
      @denali9449 Рік тому +1

      @@eddiedegoede365 Really? The actual difference in the Atlantic and Pacific entrances is about 20 cm and that varies with tides and wind. Hardly noticeable over the 50 mile length.

  • @GH-oi2jf
    @GH-oi2jf 2 роки тому +14

    The description is incorrect. From the Pacific, a ship is lifted in two locks to the level of Lake Miraflores, 52 feet or so above sea level. The ship at 3:00 ff is moving toward the Pacific.

    • @BradHouser
      @BradHouser 2 роки тому +3

      Someone involved in creating this video should have noticed that.

    • @christhorne9012
      @christhorne9012 2 роки тому +4

      Had the same comment. Great video but poorly narrated. Also ‘quay’ is pronounced key or kaey, not ‘kway’

    • @lafingas555
      @lafingas555 Рік тому +2

      Calm down.

  • @ggravett
    @ggravett 2 роки тому +15

    Note for future: quay is pronounced key.

  • @andysaunders3708
    @andysaunders3708 Рік тому +4

    Been through that on the SS Akaroa.
    Still recall my fascination, as I was 8 years old.
    So good, and one of the best memories of spending time with my Dad.
    He turns 92 this month.

  • @woodchuck306
    @woodchuck306 2 роки тому +7

    Fact check: A ship from the Pacific rises UP through the locks. Not down as shown at 3:03.

    • @terrymoore1830
      @terrymoore1830 Рік тому

      Yes. I've noticed a lot of mistakes from Flactus videos when talking about ships and shipping. He's not very familiar with this subject.

  • @oldwobble916
    @oldwobble916 2 роки тому +10

    What is weird about tug boats?

  • @eltoro6064
    @eltoro6064 2 роки тому +5

    4:52 Quay-side is pronounced 'key-side', not Kuay-side. 😀😃😄😁🤣🤣🤣

  • @Garth_T
    @Garth_T Рік тому +4

    This is about tugboats, not the Panama Canal.

  • @abdul-qf2fe
    @abdul-qf2fe 2 роки тому +7

    One can only be amazed and stunned by the dynamics interaction and the work done by Panama 🇵🇦 canal's personnel particularly the tugboats that are marvelous machines doing crucial job and making huge impact serving/securing the passage of 9000 ships a year and enabling 96.8% of world huge 🛳 to sail through canal,without the Panama 🇵🇦 canal world economy/trade will experience a serious handicap, which avoiding it is essential to world economy and its durable development 😎

    • @mulatadhadacho9350
      @mulatadhadacho9350 2 роки тому +1

      World Must stopped Ethiopia Raper Bixiginaa Exprid government USA must

    • @marvindebot3264
      @marvindebot3264 2 роки тому

      @@mulatadhadacho9350 WTF? The USA must do nothing, none of their business. The USA needs to stay the helll out of other countries concerns.

  • @lxlx3458
    @lxlx3458 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for sharing with us...

  • @1019ha
    @1019ha Рік тому +2

    船を牽引している。電車は日本製ですね。

    • @jimmattes6297
      @jimmattes6297 Рік тому

      JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme 2 роки тому +3

    This is something the USA should have never given away!!!

    • @redwood2811
      @redwood2811 2 роки тому +1

      Very stupid thing to do

    • @denali9449
      @denali9449 Рік тому +1

      To begin with, we never owned the land, we leased the Canal Zone from Panama. Can not give away what you do not own. Next, US law would not permit us to increase the size of the canal or to do anything besides maintenance. And lastly, we have full use of the canal without having to defend it or maintain it.

  • @alainpannetier2543
    @alainpannetier2543 Рік тому +4

    If you come from the Pacific and reach Miraflores. They you go UP. Not DOWN.

  • @darktoadone5068
    @darktoadone5068 Рік тому +3

    That last bit of video showing the carrier, is the USS Yorktown in Charleston SC. Lovely ship, been on it many times.

  • @Jeff-0621
    @Jeff-0621 2 роки тому +7

    I've always wanted to learn more about the Panama Canal, but forgot about it. Thank you.

  • @ravindraranatunga
    @ravindraranatunga Рік тому +3

    This type of canal is used by Sri Lanka king parakramabahu 2000 years ago from Trincomalee to Anuradha pura.

  • @williehill7909
    @williehill7909 Рік тому +2

    Hi . Can anybody tell me the length of the canal and how long it take for a ship to get through the canal. . . .awesome first time for me. From South Africa

  • @wisuthcnx6968
    @wisuthcnx6968 2 роки тому +3

    วีดีโอยอดเยี่ยม 👍

  • @antm64
    @antm64 2 роки тому +8

    This is one of the most interesting and informative videos I've ever seen!! Amazing feats of engineering and skill!! Thank you for posting this video...much appreciated!

    • @jimmattes6297
      @jimmattes6297 Рік тому

      JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

  • @phillwainewright4221
    @phillwainewright4221 Рік тому +2

    4:51 - What he hell is 'The Kway-Side'?? Quay - pronounced 'Key'.

  • @henrygomez5972
    @henrygomez5972 2 роки тому +1

    Is a information very , very important.

  • @Schorsch180
    @Schorsch180 Рік тому +1

    Nice

  • @robminch8592
    @robminch8592 2 роки тому +5

    I was half expecting the Ever Dynamic to get stuck.

  • @carlosurbina6246
    @carlosurbina6246 2 роки тому +3

    Most informative. Deserves award and recognition. Congratulations 👍

  • @jamesbizs
    @jamesbizs Рік тому +2

    So ugh. What were the weird techniques? Am I missing something?

  • @thereissomecoolstuff
    @thereissomecoolstuff Рік тому +6

    The locks are magical. Ship enters as a Maersk Ship and comes out of the locks an Evergreen.

  • @vicentedelig25
    @vicentedelig25 2 роки тому +5

    This was already use long time before by using dolly car both side towing a large Panamanian size ship inside Panama canal chamber to chamber-Miraflores passage.

  • @Mk99987
    @Mk99987 2 роки тому +3

    5 minutes on the Panama Canal. The rest a very mixed up discussion of tug boats. It should be renamed.

  • @ИгорьМихайлов-б7ь

    MORNING CLARA!!! такого названия на автовозе не ожидал, это как ,,я купила мерседес только не джип а кабриолет, не ссы гелик как просил,, :,)

  • @vienduongxinchao
    @vienduongxinchao 2 роки тому +1

    Nice video

  • @arunnibuadok6240
    @arunnibuadok6240 2 роки тому +3

    👏👏👏👏

  • @techtexgl8934
    @techtexgl8934 2 роки тому +3

    운하보다 현재 인간의 기술로 만들수 있는 가장큰배는 얼마인가? 궁금해진다

    • @jimmattes6297
      @jimmattes6297 Рік тому

      JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

  • @andysaunders3708
    @andysaunders3708 Рік тому +1

    Seriously - are you saying they shut the vessel's main engine down?
    Sounds like asking for trouble to me.

  • @osmangoni348
    @osmangoni348 Рік тому

    Nice video sair

  • @muhamadistamar3796
    @muhamadistamar3796 Рік тому +1

    Terjemah indonesia

  • @solapowsj25
    @solapowsj25 Рік тому +1

    It'd take 200 of 100 kton blasts to get this canal 100 m deep and 400 m wide. USA has tested more than a thousand, so 200 controlled blasts isn't too much. 😊

  • @KS-cp6bj
    @KS-cp6bj Рік тому +2

    This would has been a good video without the annoying music.

  • @mrfester42
    @mrfester42 2 роки тому +3

    The plural of water craft is water craft NOT water crafts!!!

  • @redwood2811
    @redwood2811 2 роки тому +3

    Nothing weird here.

  • @kailashkumrawat93
    @kailashkumrawat93 Рік тому +2

    Plz Broadcast in Hindi ur channal

  • @nathanmoore101
    @nathanmoore101 2 роки тому +2

    4.55. Quay is pronounced "key" haha what is a kwayside?

  • @RagtimeBillyPeaches
    @RagtimeBillyPeaches 2 роки тому +3

    Gatun is pronounced "Gah-toon"

  • @tomhuffinton5193
    @tomhuffinton5193 2 роки тому +2

    "quayside"?

  • @williammajor6768
    @williammajor6768 Рік тому +1

    Quayside pronounced key side not quayside!!

  • @johnt7665
    @johnt7665 Рік тому +2

    Pity they couldn't dig it deep enough to do away with all the locks.

    • @solapowsj25
      @solapowsj25 Рік тому +1

      200 nuclear blasts would do.

  • @geraldriveraloubriel4412
    @geraldriveraloubriel4412 Рік тому

    SI PONES UN TÍTULO DE VIDEOS EN ESPAÑA LAS PERSONAS ESPERAN QUE EL DIÁLOGO SEA EN ESPAÑA....

  • @billsmith7254
    @billsmith7254 Рік тому

    Kway (quay) side? HAHA.

  • @genenelson3633
    @genenelson3633 Рік тому

    So, what happened to the weird techniques?

  • @CaribbeanShipspotting
    @CaribbeanShipspotting Рік тому

    What you mean level with the Atlantic like the Caribbean Sea doesn't exist?😂

  • @kriseriksen4737
    @kriseriksen4737 2 роки тому +2

    "Quay" is pronounced "key" so Quayside is keyside. English, it's not for Americans.

  • @CuriousBipedal
    @CuriousBipedal Рік тому

    Why does the video make the east bound ship Maersk Wellington lower to meet the Flores portion instead of rising as it does in real life? The ship will not actually descend until the Gatun section next to the Atlantic. Need a continuity director?

  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 2 роки тому +1

    Qway side??!!!

  • @gunnarfolke5430
    @gunnarfolke5430 2 роки тому +1

    Ever a lot is not the biggest
    Ever ace is the boat you actually showed

  • @ddh3098
    @ddh3098 2 роки тому +2

    They should make a ship so big it uses both canals

    • @jimmattes6297
      @jimmattes6297 Рік тому

      JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

  • @normp1621
    @normp1621 Рік тому +1

    et cetera is pronounced ET-Cetera not EK-Cetera

  • @jmiche3639
    @jmiche3639 Рік тому

    le mot "étrange" n'a rien à faire dans ce titre. c'est ; on ne peut plus commun et ce depuis longtemps. (chemin de halage.)

  • @chrisswallow3734
    @chrisswallow3734 2 роки тому +1

    Sorry but this is a badly put together video full of wrong facts and going off subject all the time.

  • @werffjvander
    @werffjvander 2 роки тому +1

    Hahahahaha The ALP Striker is much stronger (24500 hp)

  • @donquijote7463
    @donquijote7463 2 роки тому +3

    NOAH : HOLD MY BEER.

  • @oldbluedog
    @oldbluedog 2 роки тому +3

    Metric please 🙏

    • @petersipp5247
      @petersipp5247 2 роки тому +1

      Metrik is for Europe,

    • @GH-oi2jf
      @GH-oi2jf 2 роки тому +1

      Container ships all use the TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) as a measure of capacity.

    • @marvindebot3264
      @marvindebot3264 2 роки тому

      @@petersipp5247 Metric is the entire world mines two two backwards countries, the USA and Myanmar. Why should the rest of the world suffer for two countries?

    • @marvindebot3264
      @marvindebot3264 2 роки тому +1

      @@GH-oi2jf Yeah, in that particualr usage it is correct.

    • @oldbluedog
      @oldbluedog 2 роки тому +1

      @@GH-oi2jf I was referring the the ship’s lengths in feet 🤨

  • @bryceherring946
    @bryceherring946 Рік тому +3

    So the United States designed and built/managed the initial project but who paid for all that upfront? It sounds like the US was playing the role of what would today be done by one of the larger private contracting companies like a Bechtel, before we turned it back over to Panama?
    It would be interesting to better understand how that relationship between the two nations played out, I'm sure we as well as all the countries around the world and global shipping giants that would then go on to ultimately pay and use the canal.

    • @denali9449
      @denali9449 Рік тому +3

      And who would have paid Bechtel to build it? The US government? Bechtel does not work for free. It had to be a government project.
      Panama (the country) did not even exist before Roosevelt backed out of a deal with Columbia and sided with the locals in the Panama Province who were threatening a revolt. He then sent in a naval blockade to keep the Colombians out of Panama.. (Gunboat diplomacy) There was so much financial juggling that went on during our 70 some year involvement with the construction, the infrastructure, the military presence, et al; that it is difficult to ascertain if the US recouped the total costs. Panama did make about $3 billion in 2021 so I doubt if we actually lost money. The boost to US commerce, moving oil from California to the east coast and the military use during WWII were all plusses for the US.

  • @michaelguthrie2344
    @michaelguthrie2344 2 роки тому

    Would it be possible to cater for non Americans with metric at least overlays when you appear to be arrogantly displaying your ... The reason I ask is your content is great but you make good with imperial talk.

  • @harryoconnor5530
    @harryoconnor5530 2 роки тому

    Shame about the bad English in the commentary.