A collection: Panama Canal Video

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Panama Canal Video : An 11 minute time laps video of ships going thru the Panama Canal Miraflores Locks.

Panama Canal Video : A 2 minute timelapse video of a cruise ship going thru the Panama Canal.

Panama Canal Video : A 9 minute promotional video detailing the Panama Canal.

Panama Canal Video : Miraflores Locks' Visitor's Center

Panama Canal Video : 2 minute Video of Capuchin Monkeys, Panama Canal Video

Panama Canal Facts

* The cargo ship Ancon was the first vessel to transit the Canal on August 15, 1914. * A boat traveling from New York to San Francisco saves 7,872 miles by using the Panama Canal instead of going around Cape Horn. * The highest toll paid for a transit through the Panama Canal until 1995 paid by the Crown Princess on May 2, 1993; it was US$141,349.97. * The lowest toll paid was US$ 0.36 and was paid by Richard Halliburton who crossed the Canal swimming in 1928. * The San Juan Prospector was the longest ship to transit the Canal; it was 751 ft. (229 m.) in length with a 107 ft. (32.6 m.) beam. * The Hydrofoil Pegasus of the United States Navy did the fastest transit of the Canal by completing it in 2 hours and 41 minutes. * Each door of the locks weights 750 tons.

General Facts: The Panama Canal connects the Gulf of Panama with the Caribbean Sea. Because of the S-shape of the Isthmus of Panama the canal runs from south-east at the Pacific end to north-west at the Atlantic; to avoid confusion the canal authorities classify transits of the canal as northbound (Pacific to Atlantic) and southbound (Atlantic to Pacific).

The canal can accommodate vessels from small private yachts up to fairly large commercial ships. The maximum size of vessel which can use the canal is known as Panamax; an increasing number of modern ships exceed this limit, and are known as post-Panamax vessels. A typical passage through the canal by a cargo ship takes around nine hours. 14,011 vessels passed through the canal in 2005, with a total capacity of 278.8 million tons, making an average of almost 40 vessels per day.

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