A video released from the US Coast Guard shows how one of its vessels travels through the Panama Canal ... lock raises the ships until they're 85 feet above sea level. They then travel across ...
Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels for this time of ...
More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...
Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened ... in height and strength. The Gatun upper locks, mid-construction, Courtesy ...
For Panama Canal visitors, here’s a guide to experiencing and understanding the mega engineering project that captivates the ...
After nine months of Capitol Hill lobbying, the push for a "lake and lock" canal, favored by Roosevelt, succeeded. Stevens would dam the mighty Chagres to create the vast Gatun Lake in Panama's ...
Panama has owned and administered the Panama Canal for nearly three decades. President Trump wants to change that to counter ...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding ...
Opening of the Panama Canal showing American Steamship SS Ancon leaving the west chamber of the upper Gatun locks and entering Gatun Lake, Panama, August 15, 1914. - PhotoQuest/Getty Images The US ...