The Panama Canal , a human - make waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans , is the last century ’s greatest work of geoengineering . And it bear on to evolve . Just a few months ago , worker start setting off explosives like those you see here to let out the duct and permit oil supertankers to get through . Want to see more of the canal and the giant ship that traverse it ?
During the several X of buildingthe 48 Roman mile canalin the early twentieth one C , 27,500 workers died . Today , oil tankers like this one travelling through several locks full of water system to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic ( or vice versa ) . Here ’s another tank ship , below . It ’s move through a lock very near the area that is being widened . I love the mammoth “ no smoking ” sign .
Below you may see one of the “ trains ” that helps force gravy holder through the lock .
Here ’s a view from above of the area that ’s being widen .
And here is Panama City , just a few km from the Canal , which is about to start building a bunch of skyscraper that will be completed in 2009 and 2010 around the same time as the canal task . Real demesne speculators believe the turnout of the canal will result to more business .
Images via Getty .
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