PANAMA CANAL Diary Day #6

This Panama Video Diary entry by David Calvin reviews our day, which primarily consisted of a behind-the-scenes tour of the Panama Canal. Video footage includes 'Panamax' freighters passing through the locks of the canal.

One of the most interesting facts we learned at the Canal was that the rainforest provides all the water that it takes to move ships through the Panama Canal. All of the passages are possible only through gravity - water coming from the rainforest, filling the locks, and letting the ships rise and move forward. Conceivable, one of the tragedies of rainforest destruction could mean the eventual return of the nearly 8000 mile trips around Cape Horn, if total rain amounts fall and passage through the Panama Canal is no longer possible.