In my entire lifetime I may not be able to go to Panama and experience this, but darn, I'm glad this video exists, the process of crossing is truly amazing! An engineer wonder
@@wutm8they are not, the Gatun Lake is above their level. The Gatun Lake was built above their level was because if they were to make the Gatun Lake at their level then they would have to dig up an enormous amount of soil. So they just raise the Lake and built structures to work in leveling them up. Digging up kilometers would have been tougher than making this marvel.
I built the Panama Canal by myself. The government covered up everything and took credit. I did it with one of those beach set ups they sell for kids. The plastic bucket, shovel and rake. That’s the tools I used
The ship at 4:35 - the "Island Princess" (bigger than the ship we're on) shows the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM size of vessel (Panamax) that could traverse the Canal before the new locks were opened :-)
I see two locks side by side. Why can't they just remove that barrier in between and combine the two locks into one essentially doubling the size of the locks?
Slavko Gelo 2 Main reasons: 1) Having 2 locks side by side allows 2 way travel (one lock can be going "up" while the other goes "down" allowing far more traffic. 2) A huge lock requires a lot of water movement which is wasteful and slow. Also, deconstructing a lock would require you to entirely close the canal for an extended period. Building new locks and cuts allows you to keep the canal open.
This video needs to be shown in US History classes, even though the Panama Canal is only talked about for 2 minutes. This visual makes it 1 million times more understandable.
The United States does not like the fact that they lost it and that one of the causes of it was the racial segregation they did in a foreign country, there is a very dark history behind the Americans and the Panama Canal.
The US actually originally considered building it in Nicaragua because of the lake and the San Juan River which would cut down on the digging required. They even did surveys and plans were pretty much underway. So what made them change to Panama? Enter the French. The French already attempted to build a canal in Panama with the help of Ferdinand de Lesseps who also developed the Suez Canal. Attempt because they tried to build it the exact same way they did in Egypt, it didn't work, thousands of workers died and when he realized how the canal should be built, it was too late. Investments ran out, everyone gave up on it and left...except for one man, Philippe Bunau-Varilla. He wanted to earn big bucks on the canal, and did whatever it took. So he persuaded the US, saying that they'd have to worry about a volcano by distributing a Nicaragua stamp with an eruption to Congress, and it worked. But there was a problem, Panama was Colombian at the time, and while Colombia initially supported the French building the canal, the Colombian senate was now against it. This led to the US and Philippe working together, got Panamanians on their side, and began a revolution to break Panama away. To stop a Colombian response to retake it, the US sent its navy to secure the new country. And of course, the US was the first to recognize Panamanian independence
The Panama canal is a really impressive feat of engineering. To think that man kind dug a whole river through Panama and created a complex shipping route that the whole world is benefiting now.
There was a documentary on here about a mega dam that China made. Supposedly it was so huge it managed to slightly alter the rotational speed of the earth.
pulse_main no, American aircraft carriers cannot fit through the Panama Canal. That’s why the US keeps carriers in the Pacific and in the Atlantic. Helicopter based carriers to seem to juuuuust barely fit, but fixed wing carriers like the Nimitz are far too wide. The Iowa class battleship can just barely fit, like within inches, and the battleships did frequently traverse the canals, but the Iowa class has since been retired.
Rightfully so, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to transport ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific easily. We’d have to have two whole navies on each side of the country!
Magnus Lindqvist because compared to the size of the land around it this is nothing... if you see a image of Panama from above (google earth) you can’t even spot that the channel is there. It’s relatively large for a human, but the canal is really only as wide as a river
Tantos comentarios en inglés. Si lo visitas personalmente es el doble de genial. Panamá invirtió y luchó por esto, y ahorita podrá ser lo que sea, pero esto siempre será motivo de orgullo. ¡Que viva mi Panamá!❤❤❤
@@fundacionscp8174 tienes la razón lo hizo estados unidos, pero nosotros, nosotros lo agrandamos más, y ya EEUU no tiene ningún poder sobre el canal de Panamá, ya que paso a manos de los panameños mucha sangre, y gente que murió para que fuera nuestro y así fue tenemos el dominio desde 1999
It's counter intuitive that big ships take less time to transit due to displacing more water, requiring less water to equalize the locks. Great video, thank you.
But when the ship drives into the lock, the door is open so the water level is same as it is for a smaller ship because extra water escapes through the door. So, you need the same amount of water to raise the level to the same height.
Gunslinger 256 That's not correct. The displaced water freely flows in or out while the locks are open. Raising or lowering it by a certain amount always requires the same amount of water (if a big ship required less it would mean it was hitting the bottom). Tides probably change how much the outer ones need to be raised or lowered though, since the ocean water will be at differing levels throughout the day, but the height they're being raised to is the same.
I dont think that was in the original thoughts when making the canal. Something more like "lets not have to go around an entire continent to reach the pacific." Either that or I am big dumb and misunderstood
I never realised how wide parts of this canal actually are! Im sure they were once natural valleys but it’s incredible to think this whole now wet area is entirely man made!
@@rosiefay7283Yes, Gatun Lake was made by constructing dams which trapped water in the valleys and created the artificial lake. This allowed the Panama Canal engineers to not have to dig out an entire section of the country, which is massively easier, though still a feat of engineering.
My father was a Panama Canal pilot from 1959_1985. I got to transit the canal with him several times. Once on the Pacific Princess. Boy things sure have changed
This is incredible. A couple months ago we stayed in Panama City and did a time lapse video of a ship going through one of the locks. It’s an impressive operation they have.
We went through the canal on a cruise ship when i was 12 on vacation with my family. At the time, I remember being very bored and to a 12 year old it is quite ugly. I wanted to go back to Costa Rica where there were monkeys and banana trees. I am now 33 and thanks to this video and the wonders of the internet, I can truly appreciate the engineering of the canal.
What a coincidence. I just read an advertisement a few days ago about a cruise from California to florida, and I knew they had to go through the Panama canal. And I was thinking about how cool it would be to go through the Panama canal. And two days later, lo and behold, here is this video. I'm about to watch it now and enjoy a accelerated trip through the Panama canal from the Pacific Ocean to the gulf of mexico. How cool. After watching, I never realized how many open areas there were; I thought it was just a narrow straight canal all the way across. Interesting.
Before the locks were built, someone had to _float_ the idea. It's a _draining_ job for the locks to do this every day. Before entering the canal, the ship was sad, but after it had an _uplifting_ experience that made its day. If a captain is careless, he might have an _off the wall_ experience. Sometimes the locks really _let ships down_. When the water level is done being raised, everyone is _pumped_ to move ahead. I came up with a lot of puns and had to _go with the flow._
Nearly 30,000 died building it, which puts into perspective how many people were needed. Incredible feat of engineering combined with a very dark history behind it.
This video has satiated my desire to see the Panama Canal for months on end. Next week I am off on a cruise to experience it first hand. Not sure why, but this system of moving ships fascinates me as if I were a child. The fact is was built in the decade of the 1910's, without computers and modern machinery shows what men (and women) can do when they put their minds to accomplish good for the betterment of the people.
I was stationed in Ft Kobbe Panama 12/89-12/90, such a beautiful Country but never had an opportunity to see the canal except from the Bridge of Americas. Thanks for this video Sir.
I actually learned recently that the canal locks are at angles so the force imparted by the larger body of water seals it shut. Apparently Da Vinci had that as an idea too!
They don’t pull the ships through, they stabilise the ship, I went through on a cruise 6 mules work in pairs, 2forward, 2 mid ships and 2 at the stern.
Omg! This video is so cool. Like the next person, I'll probably never get to go to the Panama Canal but watching this video is the next best thing. Thank you so much for allowing me to experience it.
The thing I really love about this interconnected world today: I can take this video, watch the encapsulated moment from the viewpoint of a ship actually traversing the Panama Canal, and then I can go boot up Google Earth, zoom way in on Panama, and actually chart the course you took through the locks and reservoir, and see satellite images of the exact same places, but from a geological perspective. If like, a teacher had simply shown this video and booted up Google maps, I would have cared significantly more about geography and history when I was actually in school.
I'm surprised there are no specifically-defined directional lanes. It's seriously scary watching large and small ships passing each other so closely as they travel in opposite directions. Would love to know what the accident ratio is.
almost 0 since boats do not go that fast. also when entering the locks large boats are driven by professionals at the same time the use tug boats and little trains to guide them
What an amazing feat of engineering! Got to experience the canal passage (from the Pacific to the Atlantic) as birthday gift. Balcony location allowed to us to enjoy the entire 11-hour experience from our room. I will *never* forget that experience. *This video allows me to relive the moments. Thank you!*
This adds a whole lot of perspective to my old history classes. Out of curiosity, does the direction of transit reverse occasionally? It looks like all 3 lanes go the same way.
It's actually easier to allow transit in both directions. This is because the locks needs to be flooded or drained depending on the direction of travel. It's actually more efficient to alternate passage directions.
At 6:25 as the ship we are viewing from (Ocean Princess) is exiting the Gatún Locks (Atlantic Ocean side) there is a white and red ship entering the adjacent lane in the opposite direction. A cruise ship had just used that lane in the same direction as the OP. Also at 6:34 another ship is approaching the lane OP just exited. So yes, direction switches as needed.
That was great video! Thanks for posting, I was stationed at Howard AFB in 1972-73 and lived in the city. Never saw the Bridge of Americans from this angle but crossed it every day.
im from asia and i just found out about this. crossing this canal is added to my bucket list! that of course, can only be done when i pass my exams, get a good job, and travel the world. really hope i’ll get to have this chance. depressing reality indeed. wish me luck and i’ll be there in a few years :))
Here in Panama City now watching the cargo ships line up days in advance to get through the canal, the limit is 40 ships a day, 20 from Atlantic 20 from Caribbean, you can’t go see it due to covid so thank you for this video
0:39 Luis Carlos Jimenez, the fisherman who died that day. That is why we all came to this video, I think. The Court established that the fisherman was in a prohibited zone. His family said that the Canal absorbed all fish colonies, so he had to go there. They have now a foundation (Fundación Jiménez) to enable fishing for the families in the Canal.
Imagine being in the lower decks of that cruise ship when its doing down, and like there just being a wall inches from your cabin window/balcony, would freak me out lol
I have experienced that on a river cruise. I could actually touch the wall of the Rhine-Main-Danube canal from my room. And in a smaller ship the ups and downs were proportionally much deeper. Our entire ship was often below ground level. It was a really cool experience.
LTLuke that's a very good point but unlike this vid there's sometimes audio in the vid that's good to hear. But to be honest my comment was more to be taken tongue in cheek.
And here I thought the canal's just one big ass gate Imagine my surprise seeing 4 gates and a long travel time between them Bodies of water are freaking huge
So if my calculations are correct, it takes like 2 hours just for passing those draining gates? Wow! Ingenious system anyway, had no idea it worked like that!
Loved it! I have been thru the canal so this was familiar to me! (And I have also been on the Erie Canal - Wow what a difference!) and also have seen it via ships cams so I really enjoyed this!
0:40 boat on the left died.
It was tragic
Steve really?
Not Really, just going along with his humorous comment
Steve Noble oh okay had me scared lol.
... K Dog really?
In my entire lifetime I may not be able to go to Panama and experience this, but darn, I'm glad this video exists, the process of crossing is truly amazing! An engineer wonder
That is a very thoughtful comment,
Thank You!
Jabs not really a engineer wonder, just a lot of digging.....
Luke_ the locks are an engineering wonder
I live here in Panama but foreal to pass all the canal it's 8 hours also you can go to miralores musem the ticket of entrance cost 10 bucks
@g mack are you secretly a nazi?
The only thing that would have made this video better was a small map overlay with a dot showing how the ship is crossing over.
And a little bit back ground music
00⁰
No thanks
GTA Panama
And some good music...))
They should put a big ass sign that says "Welcome To The Atlantic" and vice versa the other side!
Nah, they should say "Welcome to the mediterranean!" To confuse the hell out of the people on board
Texshi Barrett or Welcome to hell
Yeah, we should...
"You are now leaving the Atlantic"
we have those on each end of the bosphorus bridge in istanbul. one says "welcome to europe" and other says "welcome to asia" obviously.
I didn't know a video with no sound could be this satisfying.
Well, another certain genre of video can be just as satisfying to watch without the sound...
Thanks as I was going crazy wondering if it was only me who had no volume
Improved my focus
@@conduta8623 Enlightenment 😲
@@lesrestall807 😏
It's videos like these that make me glad the internet exists.
...And gets almost-instantly negated by..
..... People who either spam with scam links or post irrelevant content.
I love the little tug and passenger ferry squeezing in the lock with the big ship hehe
One of the worthy videos 👍
6:00 i love that two small ships using the same canal with this ship, and they just cant wait to rush out like my dogs before daily walk
That's funny! 🤣
why is the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic ocean at different levels???
wtf?????
@@wutm8 They're not. The lake is.
@@wutm8they are not, the Gatun Lake is above their level. The Gatun Lake was built above their level was because if they were to make the Gatun Lake at their level then they would have to dig up an enormous amount of soil. So they just raise the Lake and built structures to work in leveling them up. Digging up kilometers would have been tougher than making this marvel.
@@NiceEyeballs💯👏🏻👏🏻
I didn’t understand the scale of he boat until I saw the little guy standing in the bow (he’s only there when they are going through the locks)
That's muy capitaíñ.
He's the one who calls "Left a bit", "Right a bit", "Hold her steady".
Ship*
Well it is a smaller ship it’s only 593 ft
ua-cam.com/video/N2XfQp8nUzw/v-deo.html must watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
over 40 years at sea and transiting the Panama canal was always one of the highlights of my career.
mine too
this was actually really cool to watch
I appreciate it, Thanks!
Go Jays!
Especially the clouds 😊
I think the little boats would have to wait for the big boats cause it would waste a lot of water to let a little boat through by it self.
Go jays!!
I built the Panama Canal by myself. The government covered up everything and took credit. I did it with one of those beach set ups they sell for kids. The plastic bucket, shovel and rake. That’s the tools I used
Justin Gatlin Thats just what a government spy would say
David L we are all government spies
You didn't mention the drugs.
What a random ass comment
bosshoss69lee Good for you! Would you and David L like a award?
0:04 Brigde of the Americas
0:50 Miraflores Locks
1:50 Miraflores lake
2:15 Pedro Miguel Locks
2:55 Centennial Brigde
3:25 Gatun lake
4:30 Gatun Locks
Thank you
@@marc44444 if you follow the timestamps and look at the map, it is pacific to atlantic. you are wrong
Gatun lake is so huge
The ship at 4:35 - the "Island Princess" (bigger than the ship we're on) shows the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM size of vessel (Panamax) that could traverse the Canal before the new locks were opened :-)
I'm not on any ship right now, but the video was shot from the "Ocean Princess" It tells you in the video description.
I see two locks side by side. Why can't they just remove that barrier in between and combine the two locks into one essentially doubling the size of the locks?
Slavko Gelo 2 Main reasons: 1) Having 2 locks side by side allows 2 way travel (one lock can be going "up" while the other goes "down" allowing far more traffic. 2) A huge lock requires a lot of water movement which is wasteful and slow. Also, deconstructing a lock would require you to entirely close the canal for an extended period. Building new locks and cuts allows you to keep the canal open.
It looks like it's overlapping the lock, like it's even wider than the lock itself LOL
Ye
This video needs to be shown in US History classes, even though the Panama Canal is only talked about for 2 minutes. This visual makes it 1 million times more understandable.
Wow! Thanks!
The United States does not like the fact that they lost it and that one of the causes of it was the racial segregation they did in a foreign country, there is a very dark history behind the Americans and the Panama Canal.
Los Norteamericanos , no querían ni poner la bandera de Panamá en la zona del canal
An maybe school country studies if you do those
My US History class used this video in one of our presentations- definitely a great visual
The US actually originally considered building it in Nicaragua because of the lake and the San Juan River which would cut down on the digging required. They even did surveys and plans were pretty much underway. So what made them change to Panama? Enter the French. The French already attempted to build a canal in Panama with the help of Ferdinand de Lesseps who also developed the Suez Canal. Attempt because they tried to build it the exact same way they did in Egypt, it didn't work, thousands of workers died and when he realized how the canal should be built, it was too late. Investments ran out, everyone gave up on it and left...except for one man, Philippe Bunau-Varilla.
He wanted to earn big bucks on the canal, and did whatever it took. So he persuaded the US, saying that they'd have to worry about a volcano by distributing a Nicaragua stamp with an eruption to Congress, and it worked. But there was a problem, Panama was Colombian at the time, and while Colombia initially supported the French building the canal, the Colombian senate was now against it. This led to the US and Philippe working together, got Panamanians on their side, and began a revolution to break Panama away. To stop a Colombian response to retake it, the US sent its navy to secure the new country. And of course, the US was the first to recognize Panamanian independence
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
There was a claim somewhere that 'a postage stamp showing the route, with an erupting volcano' caused a change of location for the canal.
It's ALMOST like what the US did back then is what Russia is doing now.
@@dedgzus6808 What the US did to Guatemala also was worse than Panama and probably worse than Russia's actions in Ukraine so far!
@@dedgzus6808 what?
The Panama canal is a really impressive feat of engineering. To think that man kind dug a whole river through Panama and created a complex shipping route that the whole world is benefiting now.
There was a documentary on here about a mega dam that China made. Supposedly it was so huge it managed to slightly alter the rotational speed of the earth.
@12A Hou Ng Tony yeah what he said is true.
@@kishascape I don't think so.
@@anarcocapitalista3700 its actually true.
@@suhailpasha7833 NASA has calculated that the dam only slows the rotation by 0.06 microseconds, which is six hundredths of a millionth of a second.
DUDE, this is the best time lapse video showing the entire journey.
Thanks!
ua-cam.com/video/AHrCI9eSJGQ/v-deo.html bruh, watch this
@@radenmasramaa lol I was just gonna recommend that very video but you did it
Those tug boats look like random kids running around in a wedding.😂
lmaoo it's true
Hahaha 👍
Lmao
U should probably from india😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They reminds me of tiny cars passing semi trucks on highway hehe
Fun Fact for anyone who finds this.
All US naval ships have to be thin enough to fit through the Panama Canal
Does the carriers fit too?
@@ipayman5217
Yep, in bottom part
pulse_main no, American aircraft carriers cannot fit through the Panama Canal. That’s why the US keeps carriers in the Pacific and in the Atlantic. Helicopter based carriers to seem to juuuuust barely fit, but fixed wing carriers like the Nimitz are far too wide. The Iowa class battleship can just barely fit, like within inches, and the battleships did frequently traverse the canals, but the Iowa class has since been retired.
Yeah ive heard of this
Rightfully so, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to transport ships from the Atlantic to the Pacific easily. We’d have to have two whole navies on each side of the country!
the clouds .
curatron 24 mesmerizing man
the clouds move not the earth we can't feel the earth because it's too fast
curatron 24
What the beautiful
AngMgaKwentoNi LaiLai no shit Sherlock
ua-cam.com/video/N2XfQp8nUzw/v-deo.html must watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suez Canal blocked by a ship.
UA-cam algorithm be like, "Here, look at our 5 year old Video about Panama Canal."😂
True
Hahaahaj true
Exactly as you write, Nisarg xD
Ikr 😂
Lmaooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm from Panamá and I'm watching this from the panama canal
Hermoso el canal.
En canal Czechia
Badads
Same
ayee
It seems so short on map... but it really ain't
Same with your mom. I was surprised.
@@zippyttr577 That's completely uncalled for
@@donald_doe lol read your whole comment 😂😂😂
@@playbox3397 "@ZippyTTT Your comment was completely uncalled for"
Magnus Lindqvist because compared to the size of the land around it this is nothing... if you see a image of Panama from above (google earth) you can’t even spot that the channel is there. It’s relatively large for a human, but the canal is really only as wide as a river
Panama flexing the fact it’s not blocked.
UA-cam recommendation is the worlds best comedian
Tantos comentarios en inglés. Si lo visitas personalmente es el doble de genial. Panamá invirtió y luchó por esto, y ahorita podrá ser lo que sea, pero esto siempre será motivo de orgullo. ¡Que viva mi Panamá!❤❤❤
Pero si lo hizo estados unidos creo no panamá
@@fundacionscp8174 tienes la razón lo hizo estados unidos, pero nosotros, nosotros lo agrandamos más, y ya EEUU no tiene ningún poder sobre el canal de Panamá, ya que paso a manos de los panameños mucha sangre, y gente que murió para que fuera nuestro y así fue tenemos el dominio desde 1999
@@anymassiel4727 Ahh ok gracias por aclararme la duda
@@fundacionscp8174 de nada :)
Alguien puede explicarme el motivo de tantas conpuertas, por que ese sube y baja de los barcos para atravessar el canal???
It's counter intuitive that big ships take less time to transit due to displacing more water, requiring less water to equalize the locks. Great video, thank you.
I did not know that, great tid-bit.
But when the ship drives into the lock, the door is open so the water level is same as it is for a smaller ship because extra water escapes through the door. So, you need the same amount of water to raise the level to the same height.
Gunslinger 256 That's not correct. The displaced water freely flows in or out while the locks are open. Raising or lowering it by a certain amount always requires the same amount of water (if a big ship required less it would mean it was hitting the bottom). Tides probably change how much the outer ones need to be raised or lowered though, since the ocean water will be at differing levels throughout the day, but the height they're being raised to is the same.
I dont think that was in the original thoughts when making the canal. Something more like "lets not have to go around an entire continent to reach the pacific." Either that or I am big dumb and misunderstood
@S S raising boats is easier than leveling the mountain to sea level
Now You tube would recommend this video after Suez Canal incident 😂😂
😌
Lmao 😂
@@nnk1322
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True I got this as a recommendation bcz I watched transit in Suez canal video🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same here😂
Crazy to think they hand made this shit like a hundred years ago
Wrestling Encyclopedia more than 100 years ago, maybe 200
Lucas Daniel actually it is 100
Actually, the first canal lock was made in 1776 on the Trent and Mersey Canal. So really it was a little over 200 years ago.
Lucas Daniel but isnt the canal known today different from what you are talking about
CuldeeFan64 I was thinking you where meaning all canals like from the first, my bad.
I never realised how wide parts of this canal actually are! Im sure they were once natural valleys but it’s incredible to think this whole now wet area is entirely man made!
The canals were built into large pre-existing lakes so they wouldn’t have to dig the whole way.
@@vinceo22598 even still - huge thing to build
@@vinceo22598 The biggest lake in the canal is Gatun Lake. According to Wikipedia, Gatun Lake is artificial. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatun_Lake
@@rosiefay7283Yes, Gatun Lake was made by constructing dams which trapped water in the valleys and created the artificial lake. This allowed the Panama Canal engineers to not have to dig out an entire section of the country, which is massively easier, though still a feat of engineering.
@johndown2337
Although the French tried for 20 years to dig it out, but they had no success and the man made lake (largest in the world) was plan B.
00:40 RIP to that person in the paddle boat on the left
RIP
Rip
Rip
Rip
Rip
Just a little reminder to all people watching right now.
These are the old locks, the new and wider ones are completely breathtaking
It's already a year but do you have the link?
My father was a Panama Canal pilot from 1959_1985. I got to transit the canal with him several times. Once on the Pacific Princess. Boy things sure have changed
Thank you for not adding super annoying generic "music" to this video!
7 million dollars per day and my country is still bad.
Bad people makes bad country...
i know that feel, bro) from Russia🖐️)
@@zeendaniels5809 I feel this man, I live in america and we have a bad president.
@@thedood7859 stfu bro. Your minimum wage is considered winning a lottery here.
@@thedood7859 bad because you your feelings got hurt by him😢. Get real dude, in america you live a better life than any other place on the planet.
Never understood lock mechanism till I saw this video...12 hr transit shown in 6 months..
Thanks for the great work...love from India.
*minutes
I'm glad I found this video. I am in the process of buying a small yacht, and the Canal is the first trip I want to make, on the way to Alaska.
goodluck!
have a safe trip 🤝🏻
This is incredible. A couple months ago we stayed in Panama City and did a time lapse video of a ship going through one of the locks. It’s an impressive operation they have.
Thank you!
We went through the canal on a cruise ship when i was 12 on vacation with my family. At the time, I remember being very bored and to a 12 year old it is quite ugly. I wanted to go back to Costa Rica where there were monkeys and banana trees. I am now 33 and thanks to this video and the wonders of the internet, I can truly appreciate the engineering of the canal.
What a coincidence. I just read an advertisement a few days ago about a cruise from California to florida, and I knew they had to go through the Panama canal. And I was thinking about how cool it would be to go through the Panama canal. And two days later, lo and behold, here is this video. I'm about to watch it now and enjoy a accelerated trip through the Panama canal from the Pacific Ocean to the gulf of mexico. How cool.
After watching, I never realized how many open areas there were; I thought it was just a narrow straight canal all the way across. Interesting.
Thank you for posting this. So many people will never see it in person.
Nice music
😞
What music lol
@@TheTwilighter26 r/woosh
You guys can't hear the audio? Works fine for me...?
🤣🤣🤣
yeahh very good music...
relaxing
🤣🤣🤣
Before the locks were built, someone had to _float_ the idea. It's a _draining_ job for the locks to do this every day. Before entering the canal, the ship was sad, but after it had an _uplifting_ experience that made its day. If a captain is careless, he might have an _off the wall_ experience. Sometimes the locks really _let ships down_. When the water level is done being raised, everyone is _pumped_ to move ahead. I came up with a lot of puns and had to _go with the flow._
Cannot begin to imaging the manpower it took to build the Panama Canal.
I made it. only me. 😊
Nearly 30,000 died building it, which puts into perspective how many people were needed. Incredible feat of engineering combined with a very dark history behind it.
I'm watching this 2 time slower, so I can feel how long the gate would open
It is a time lapse 120 times faster than real life so 2 times slower doesn't matter much
It took 11 hours
I’ve crossed the Panama Canal last year and it’s truly wonderful feeling.
Just watched the documentary on how they built this shit and the entire canal, unbelievable
It was a nightmare basically
But they are earning alot of money
biotoxin495 those thousands of dead mfs won’t see a dime tho
This video has satiated my desire to see the Panama Canal for months on end. Next week I am off on a cruise to experience it first hand. Not sure why, but this system of moving ships fascinates me as if I were a child. The fact is was built in the decade of the 1910's, without computers and modern machinery shows what men (and women) can do when they put their minds to accomplish good for the betterment of the people.
How was the cruise
I was stationed in Ft Kobbe Panama 12/89-12/90, such a beautiful Country but never had an opportunity to see the canal except from the Bridge of Americas. Thanks for this video Sir.
I actually learned recently that the canal locks are at angles so the force imparted by the larger body of water seals it shut. Apparently Da Vinci had that as an idea too!
It is so satisfying to watch these massive ships as they pass through the canal!
“You see Captain, this is how canals are *supposed* to work”
Can someone please explain the little trains next to the edge of the canal in the lock?
They pull the ships through the locks
Steve Noble thanks I just didn't see any ropes so I had to ask. Thanks!
The're called mules and stabilize the ship, lived across the first locks at Ft Clayton from 81-83
With ropes?
They don’t pull the ships through, they stabilise the ship, I went through on a cruise 6 mules work in pairs, 2forward, 2 mid ships and 2 at the stern.
6:20 When you decide to race someone at the traffic lights.
bartonez123 😂😂😂😂
Crazy I was thinking the same thing lol 😂😃👍👍✌️mind blower
Omg! This video is so cool. Like the next person, I'll probably never get to go to the Panama Canal but watching this video is the next best thing. Thank you so much for allowing me to experience it.
Man, this ship is fast..
Dercio Silveira _vErY FaSt InDeEd
It's actually a timelapse.
@@meowBlitz , _whoosh_
Harim Solano What if I told you
Zyipitoe What if I told you...
The thing I really love about this interconnected world today: I can take this video, watch the encapsulated moment from the viewpoint of a ship actually traversing the Panama Canal, and then I can go boot up Google Earth, zoom way in on Panama, and actually chart the course you took through the locks and reservoir, and see satellite images of the exact same places, but from a geological perspective.
If like, a teacher had simply shown this video and booted up Google maps, I would have cared significantly more about geography and history when I was actually in school.
ok but no one asked bro lol
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The canal system is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Have you seen woman's vagina???
The fact that something this complicated and huge can be made and used with little problems
What a priviledge to watch. Man at his best!
I never would've thought you could transit the Panama Canal in less than 7 minutes!
4:23 *ABSOLUTE UNIT*
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama.
then it's planama
Race car
You mean a pan?
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X - a man, a plan, a canal : #Panamax
I'm surprised there are no specifically-defined directional lanes. It's seriously scary watching large and small ships passing each other so closely as they travel in opposite directions. Would love to know what the accident ratio is.
almost 0 since boats do not go that fast. also when entering the locks large boats are driven by professionals at the same time the use tug boats and little trains to guide them
@@moqxi8830 Thanks for that info! 👍
I remember doing this transit in 1998 during my Navy tour on board USS Decatur. I have my "Order of The Ditch" Certificate in a frame on the wall. 🙂
when you realise how big the boat is with the man standing in front
I think it's some insects. But later understand. ☺
I like the smaller vessels squeezing in the front of the lock with the big ship. Is so cute hehe
I thought the ship was small untill I saw people on the front
Everyone: Pays attention to the time-lapse
Me: Seeing the clouds sail in the sky through the video
What an amazing feat of engineering! Got to experience the canal passage (from the Pacific to the Atlantic) as birthday gift. Balcony location allowed to us to enjoy the entire 11-hour experience from our room. I will *never* forget that experience. *This video allows me to relive the moments. Thank you!*
Truly amazing - I'm glad this was recommended to me.
This adds a whole lot of perspective to my old history classes.
Out of curiosity, does the direction of transit reverse occasionally? It looks like all 3 lanes go the same way.
Yes, the canal can be transited in either way.
Hello Im from Panama, and yes thw direction is changed everytime it's ordered to, also new ones were built that are a lot bigger
It's actually easier to allow transit in both directions. This is because the locks needs to be flooded or drained depending on the direction of travel. It's actually more efficient to alternate passage directions.
Yeah just depends on the traffic. Railroads also do similar depending on the traffics.
At 6:25 as the ship we are viewing from (Ocean Princess) is exiting the Gatún Locks (Atlantic Ocean side) there is a white and red ship entering the adjacent lane in the opposite direction. A cruise ship had just used that lane in the same direction as the OP. Also at 6:34 another ship is approaching the lane OP just exited. So yes, direction switches as needed.
This was so calming to watch honestly. I wish there was mellow background music though :)
That was great video! Thanks for posting, I was stationed at Howard AFB in 1972-73 and lived in the city. Never saw the Bridge of Americans from this angle but crossed it every day.
Dude, this simply marvelous. You are an angel for filming and uploading this.
Thanks so much!!
El canal de panama... es el orgullo de nosotros como panameños
Si es una maravilla
I feel peaceful watching this. Thanks for your video!
The step canals are such a beautiful piece of Engineering! ❤️
yes is so beautiful ❤️
6:43 the bridge is now finished and you're almost 30 minutes away from my house.
Eso sería del mar caribe o pacífico?
Thanks to your efforts we could witness the complete transit. Thanks a lot.
Panamá 🇵🇦 mi hermosa patria ❤️ 💙
im from asia and i just found out about this. crossing this canal is added to my bucket list! that of course, can only be done when i pass my exams, get a good job, and travel the world. really hope i’ll get to have this chance. depressing reality indeed. wish me luck and i’ll be there in a few years :))
Good luck from the future!
Here in Panama City now watching the cargo ships line up days in advance to get through the canal, the limit is 40 ships a day, 20 from Atlantic 20 from Caribbean, you can’t go see it due to covid so thank you for this video
I don’t get why people dislike, the video was literally what the title said
0:39 Luis Carlos Jimenez, the fisherman who died that day. That is why we all came to this video, I think. The Court established that the fisherman was in a prohibited zone. His family said that the Canal absorbed all fish colonies, so he had to go there. They have now a foundation (Fundación Jiménez) to enable fishing for the families in the Canal.
did that person really go under this particular ship?
You lie Martin.. hoax maker nice joke
@@johndutton4612 Nope. This is completely made up.
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Hey my teachers used this video for our class! Its honestly so entertaining to watch lol-
Imagine being in the lower decks of that cruise ship when its doing down, and like there just being a wall inches from your cabin window/balcony, would freak me out lol
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I have experienced that on a river cruise. I could actually touch the wall of the Rhine-Main-Danube canal from my room. And in a smaller ship the ups and downs were proportionally much deeper. Our entire ship was often below ground level. It was a really cool experience.
Fantastic video. Surely you can include a music overlay? Either way, very informative stuff.
Just sing or whistle a wee tune to yourself, some of us think music can ruin a vid.
lafingas555 than you could just turn the sound off
LTLuke that's a very good point but unlike this vid there's sometimes audio in the vid that's good to hear. But to be honest my comment was more to be taken tongue in cheek.
I had ua-cam.com/video/f-tztrbKTFo/v-deo.html in the background for music, really worked well I think.
Stop putting music in everything. It's annoying
Great stuff! Exactly what I wanted to see. Thanks Steve!!
I really appreciate your comment!
And here I thought the canal's just one big ass gate
Imagine my surprise seeing 4 gates and a long travel time between them
Bodies of water are freaking huge
Truly an engineering marvel. So simple yet so brilliant.
One of the coolest vids I've seen on UA-cam. Hands down !
Omg mi país es hermosoo😍😍😍😍🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦
So if my calculations are correct, it takes like 2 hours just for passing those draining gates? Wow! Ingenious system anyway, had no idea it worked like that!
It is a nice touch that there is NO shitty music on background. Silence is good.
did anyone notice clouds moving beautifully
Two years later....I certainly noticed the clouds. Mesmerizing. ☁☁☁☁
Loved it! I have been thru the canal so this was familiar to me! (And I have also been on the Erie Canal - Wow what a difference!) and also have seen it via ships cams so I really enjoyed this!
thank you so much! this video is awesome! Crazy to think this was 11h
Time seems to speed up on the Panama Canal. What an engineering marvel it is.
I needed this for my history class thanks
I'm reading a book that mentions the canal and wanted to see it. This was a great tour. Thanks for posting.
I was on the island princess during this transit!
Cool!