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

Just enjoy the video…… jeez!

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 )

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

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.

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

@@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.

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

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.

Someone involved in creating this video should have noticed that.

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

Calm down.

Very stupid thing to do

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.

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Yah Buddy!

JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND HE DIED FOR OUR SINS.

200 nuclear blasts would do.

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.

Most welcome information.Very super excited.

Metrik is for Europe,

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

@@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?

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

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

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