Is The Panama Canal The World's Most Difficult Engineering Project? | Super Structures | Progress 

As a merchant mariner, I sailed through Panama Canal numerous times. Panama Canal is one of the greatest engineering feats of man. Panama Canal is one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

Don't let yourself fool by the age of the docu. What is being documented is still jaw dropping! Well worth watching!

Excellent!

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Great video...thank you for uploading and sharing!!

VERY well done. Both the Panama Canal AND the documentary.

During my Army days at Fort Sherman, when we would transit from the fort we'd have to wait for the lock to cycle then drive across it beside a set of the gates. The jungle area around Sherman had 7 old gun batteries dating back dozens of years. The Jungle Operations Training Center was open there about 1951 and trained units and air crews on survival. It was a very interesting place and the old Spanish Fort San Lorenzo at the mouth of the Chagres River was some great exploring. It dates back to 1598 and was routinely attacked by pirates. Back then you could still see remnants of the French Canal here and there but it's been almost 50 years since I was last there so by now the jungle may have finished its' reclamation.

Greatest Engineering feat of the 20th Century.😯😯

What a fantastic Big Ditch. 😊🎉

Should watch Panama's video on the more recent engineering feat of widening the Canal!

Crazy how i was born near the panama canal now im learning more about the history about it good info🤙

My family and I lived in Panama City in the early 1960’s and four years after we moved to the U.S. we went back as vacationers.

Best documentary on this topic, I have always been intrigued by the water locks

Hi. I’ve seen my share of Panama Canal videos but this took the time to explain more of what took and why...it’s not all about digging a ditch. Very cool. Thanks!

The Panama Canal is what modern humans have to hold up against the pyramids

The best history of the American constructin of the Panama Canal I ever saw. Perhaps it's petty, but I'd have liked more details/specifics about the French failure.

Absolutely amazing the engineering involved 👏 for the time 🎉

The only other engineering project that would overshadow the construction of the Panama Canal would be the Apollo Space program and building the International Space Station. Nearly a million people and thousands of contractors worked on these projects not just in every US state but Canada, Europe and Japan. The logistics and coordination of such projects eclypse the Panama Canal.

It's interesting that the canal was built with the passage of the Titanic in mind

Excellent presentation!

❤ Enjoyed this very much, thank you. An enormous undertaking that cost a lot to save a lot, I guess.

Superbly done the panama canal

This was posted 2 months ago but the production is actually quite old, proven by referring to the trade centers still standing and the canal being an american possession. With that in mind you have to look at how well this program was made. Looks as good as anything shot today

FANTASTIC !. I WATCHED THE BBC DOCUMENTARY OF THIS STORY, BACK IN 1987. THEY HAD MORE ARCHIVE FILM OF THE FRENCH ATTEMPT. WHAT MADE ME CRAWL, WAS THE EMPHASIS MADE ,OF THE DENSE JUNGLE CONDITIONS, THAT WERE AMONG THE WORST IN THE WORLD FOR DANGEROUS SNAKES, SPIDER'S AND OTHER TROPICAL CREATURES. WHAT BRAVE AND DESPERATE PEOPLE THEY WERE.

38:30 - that mechanical computer is amazing.

Damn.. Building that dam was genius!

Luke Skywalker talks about Panama in the Degoma System.

Within budget …? Amazing 😊

My favorite place too be.. .Panama Canal💥💥💭💭⭐⭐⭐

This canal was built with manpower mule power and steam, my grandfather worked two hitches in the steam shops repairing steam machinery

Made possible by the most powerful in U.S. industry due to the large scale financing and production needed in steel and concrete (to build a system of locks), powered by electricity and gasoline. The steam shovel was also a key technology requirement for excavating material. Diesel-powered hydraulic shovels did not appear until after World War Two with the availability of high pressure rubber hoses for the hydraulics. J.P. Morgan acted as a middleman for the U.S. Government to build the canal. The Panama Canal project was a project he enabled through the financial and industrial resources he commanded.

Madam palma is goodnews caster how i wish shes done a lot in this troubled world for peace for narrating history

My grandfather was a dredge captain and a member of the Society of the Charges.

Went thru once, amazing accomplishments.

Read Dabid McCullough book The Path Between the Seas...

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. -Benjamin Franklin

Thank you those who made it, and left this world long ago. You have left your footage.

This must have been made decades ago. It holds up well. I'm pretty sure the whole canal has been redone to accommodate bigger ships now.

I really Dig videos like this.

(Civil/Structural--bridges and tall buildings 30 years). IMO, the Saturn Rocket and moon landing was the most astonishing piece of all around engineering I have ever studied. So much more for moon landing and take off, than to deal primarily with than gravity and hydrology of the canal...and the doors/locks design. I studied the Panama Canal, and uhh, it's just a canal. The USA did good finishing up the building of it. It should be a candidate for enlargement to handle more traffic and larger ships anytime now. JMO GGate Bridge ranks high on my list and we can't overlook the Empire State Building in light of when it was built. Amazing structure for back then. Then comes the aqueduct systems of the ancient Greeks! Above and below ground water transportation and draining.

According to reports 25.000 died Building it .not as high as the death railway Burma thailand but Inhospitable terrain in both cases!

Brilliant Supernatural wisdom built tne Panama Canal. Blessed .

Panama is a beautiful country from the oceans to Baru

This type of submarine folding aircraft nearly forgotten (by me at least, thumb up for that alone), need to return to Smithsonian Air and Space. ;-)

The Gorgas family hails from Mobile, Alabama. They were also connected to the University of Alabama. Their home has been converted into a museum. Coincidentally, Mobile was also the headquarters of the Army Corps of Engineers for the Canal Zone. When Pineapple Faced Manny was removed from power, immediately, everyone at the headquarters took the portraits of Manny as souvenirs. He was always so funny to walk into that building in Mobile, into the portraits of a dictator in people's offices 😂

I heard about a refitting for even BIGGER ships! Mark Hammil cussed quite a bit with all those "dams".

A couple year ago I heard that China was planning to build a canal through Nicaragua. I wonder if that plan is still in motion or dead in the water. It seems China wants greater control of a route from Pacific to Atlantic.

I have build the Panama canal in 1914 together with my older sister 👍

Amazing project

Pacman Canal. Yes indeed.

Thanks America 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

Eight months of rainy season, it's double of where I live

Probably not because the Erie Canal was built about a century before it. And between that time technology and construction techniques had improved tremendously. However the difference between the two constructions of the two canals had one main difference, and that was in the Pacman Canal they were firing the Pacific Ocean, and in the Erie Canal they were not fighting an Ocean. But again the improvement in construction techniques and equipment and their improvement over the time period would most likely make them both fairly equal in the ability too build them.

Not me simping over catapulting planes from submarines.

Ancient Chinese proverb…”You can move a mountain with a spoon if you really want to.” A bit of a joke. Unbelievably impressive feat of engineering & will power. Another 🇺🇸🏆

interesting thanks

Of the 22,000 lives lost in 8yrs to try to accomplish this project, it is a great great achievements by man compared to the millions and millions die horrible deaths in battlefields..still we don't realize ..sad.

Turkey together with the Chinese are now at work on their canal. Another immense project will be the Kra Canal, cutting through and transforming Thailand!

Just waw❤

wow

I think this grat help of mankind Great planner, implementer, and oprations

This is justt freaking amazing.

Excellent work here

14:21 my meme brain was waiting for the John Cena theme meme, with "JOHNNN STEVENNSSS!"

More than a decade ago I read the book authored by George Washington Goethals about the construction of the canal. It puts the reputation of Ferdinand de Lesseps in a rather poor condition, when contrasted with that of the American accomplishments!

So many Caribbean men and women died building the canal, let's hear about them, my grandmother's father and her brothers, still have family there from 🇧🇧, who never got their payment in Gold..

Time will tell, that is as truthful as can be. The canal should have been built at sea level, all they had to do was move a lot more dirt and stone

Thanks again to America once again helping the world

The building of the Panama Canal is extremely interesting. Thank you!

I noticed you're pressure cookers/ canned have a rubber safety plug, I have the same type. My plug shrunk allowing steam to escape. I found that if you put a bread bag wire tie under the head of the safety plug to raise/ seal the plug on the bottom it will reach jiggling temperature much sooner. You will still have the safety feature of the blow out plug.

Amazing engineering, I'm curious how they stopped mafia involvement in the concrete

The name Calabra Cut the correct name ,is Corte culebra for snakes many people die with poison baits.

Wonderful

The Canal is one of the Wonders of the world … I was sad when Carer gave it away for one dollar and Now China owns …When are we ever going to learn???

Anyone who says the pyramids couldn’t have been made by man, I urge them to check this out. If we could do this from 1904-1914; digging out 50 miles of the most treacherous and unpredictable unprecedented terrain on earth with the very beginning machines of the Industrial Revolution. Building and inventing new pieces of machinery to complete tasks never seen before on earth, with little more than cranes and manpower, I have full faith that the ancient Egyptians could stack some rocks from a query into the great pyramids. Each of these two marvels are outstanding but just the fact that we did complete this canal with primitive equipment from the Industrial Revolutions beginning, while still using animals and mostly man power. I find it easy to imagine thousands of workers. Along with their now, lost to humanity primitive equipment, machines we will likely never know of but certainly existed and helped in the building the Pyramids. It is just a matter of will, strength of a nation, and the value of their culture, beliefs, and the again sheer mental fortitude to accomplish this under threat or under patriotism, if there is a will, there is a way.

One question, how is the us operation in Panama different from the French/uk/Israeli operation on Suez in 1956?

Come to the northwest Passageway

I think so b,cause panama canal is one of the largest wounderful canal in the world

The headwear Panama hat originally manufactured in Ecuador. They were originally worn by navvies working on the Panama Canal. Navvies are a nickname for the canal employees.

plant trees to stabilise the banks or Panamanian willow (does this exist?)

I'm assuming the motors for concrete were a/c. Didn't mention tesla

To anyone who sees this, please pray for my health and send positive energy my way.

"Two million years ago the ocean floor erupted, creating the isthmus of Panama. Eons later..." an eon is half a billion years.

This must be over 25 years old if they talk about the year 2000 as being in the future.

Waw..perhaps..panama canal had one gate named with "Ferdinand De Lesseps Gate"..

I would imagine many of the developments, techniques, tools etc from this build were instrumental and applied to the build of Hoover Dam (about) 20 years later. I know this documentary is a couple of decades old now, and they did make mention of the dangerous work with explosives being primarily done by black Panamanians, but toward the end when they gave statistics of numbers dead, only Americans and French were mentioned. I was disappointed by that. Still, overall a very good history lesson on the canal.

Don't forget about the expansion.

I think the hardest part was to build it, actually, in Europe.

Three hundred and fifty two Million, a "staggering" high price?... Hell, we spend more on seat buckles in military aircraft these days. One of those shovels the men used would cost that much on any gov project, especially in today's "strong" economy. Building back better one shovel at a time...

How about the Great Lakes?

I read a book about this. I feel so sorry for the Asians that left their family behind to work on the project, caught malaria and died & were never seen by their family again.

When you factor in the karma I feel the Vatican is the worlds most difficult accomplishment you all have managed to somehow engineer. Bravo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Wasn't the rideau Canal built 82 years earlier with locks that raised ships 57 metres higher than those of the Panama Canal?

He was going against USA interest just like Saddam. Hence, he was removed.

The explanation we got when I visited the canal was that the US dumped millions of gallons of DDT into the swamps, and that is why their workers didn't die of Millaria and Yellow Fever like the French! In 2018, they still were!

The audacity that Panama thought they had sovereign rights to their own infrastructure! Bring in those US troops ASAP!

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I'm just trying to show how much power I have with my connection with my mom Amen 💕🔙

Two oceans and it's out of water 😮

Actually you people see to everything through own perspective but i call that to natural ability