{"id":8832,"date":"2013-10-29T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2013-10-29T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:13:16","slug":"the-panama-canal-will-float-your-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/the-panama-canal-will-float-your-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panama Canal will float your boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/celebrity-canal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8833\" title=\"celebrity canal\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/celebrity-canal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/celebrity-canal.jpg 680w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/celebrity-canal-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a great article in USA Today, people on a cruise explore the Panama Canal from the perspective of a Celebrity Cruise line ship that makes the transit.<\/p>\n<p>PANAMA CANAL, Panama &#8212; It&#8217;s barely an hour after daybreak when the  Celebrity Millennium enters Balboa Harbor near Panama City, leaving the  Pacific Ocean behind, but already the ship&#8217;s outer decks are lined with  passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Dead ahead is Miraflores Locks, one of three sets of  giant rectangular chambers that will lift the 91,000-ton Millennium up  and over the Continental Divide to the Atlantic, and the excitement is  palpable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been on my bucket list for a long time,&#8221; says  Don Hendon, 70, of Longview, Texas, as the 106-foot-wide Millennium  squeezes into the first of the chambers with two feet to spare on either  side.<\/p>\n<p>Hendon watches as seven-story-high steel gates slowly swing  shut and the basin begins filling with millions of gallons of water. At  1,050 feet long, the lock is roughly the size of three football fields.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s massive, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-photo horizontal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/f57dd789208958c2c1ee0ba09110bae8fe48dab9\/c=525-0-4608-3069&amp;r=x513&amp;c=680x510\/local\/-\/media\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/2013\/10\/24\/1382630865013-XXX-PanamaCanal13.jpg\" alt=\"A giant cargo ship enters a lock chamber alongside the Celebrity Millennium at the Panama Canal's Miraflores Locks.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Massive,  indeed. A century after its construction by the United States, the  48-mile-long Panama Canal remains a marvel of modern engineering \u2014 and  one of cruising&#8217;s great destinations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the  Millennium, more than a dozen other cruise ships regularly voyage  through the waterway, which is drawing renewed attention from  vacationers as it prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary next  summer. More soon could be on the way as an expansion of the canal  scheduled for completion in 2015 allows for wider and longer vessels.<\/p>\n<p>For  cruisers such as Jill Schwaertzl, 70, of Vancouver, B.C., a classic  Panama Canal cruise such as this one \u2014 a two-week voyage that begins in  San Diego and ends in Fort Lauderdale \u2014 offers a chance to see a  man-made wonder that some have likened to the Great Pyramids of Egypt.  Far more complex than the Suez Canal that connects Europe to Asia, the  Panama Canal cleverly harnesses the dammed water of Panama&#8217;s rainforest \u2014  and gravity \u2014 to power its lock system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just amazed at it  all,&#8221; says the retired banker, gazing from the pool deck as the  Millennium approaches the Gaillard Cut, a miles-long section of the  canal blasted out of a solid mountain. &#8220;It&#8217;s fascinating the way they  got the water levels to work this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-photo horizontal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/458de3f3c4a99592c95cd4a596a513640726ea09\/c=166-0-4249-3069&amp;r=x513&amp;c=680x510\/local\/-\/media\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/2013\/10\/24\/1382630865022-XXX-PanamaCanal22.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrity Millennium passengers watch as the ship passes through Gaillard Cut, an eight-mile-long segment of the Panama Canal that was blasted out of rolling hills.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An engineering wonder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As  passengers learn during lectures and documentary showings in the days  leading up to the Millennium&#8217;s arrival at the canal, as many as 50,000  workers at a time toiled for a decade to carve the passageway out of the  dense Panamanian jungle. In addition to building giant locks near both  oceans, the project required the construction of what at the time was  the world&#8217;s largest dam along the Chagres River and the creation of one  of the world&#8217;s largest man-made lakes.<\/p>\n<p>The work was brutal, and  more than 5,000 workers died from accidents and illness from 1904 to  1914; an earlier attempt by the French in the 1880s had left 22,000  dead.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the  result would change the world. In addition to  cruise ships, thousands of container ships a year traveling between the  Pacific and the Atlantic oceans use the canal to shave 8,000 miles from a  journey that otherwise would involve a two-week sailing around South  America. Even after a century, it&#8217;s still big enough to handle all but  8% of the world&#8217;s shipping fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The Millennium spends an entire  day crossing the waterway from the Pacific to the Atlantic. As a  Panamanian guide narrates from the bridge, passengers watch, transfixed,  as the ship is raised 85 feet above sea level by a succession of two  sets of locks before passing through the Gaillard Cut to 21-mile-long  Gatun Lake. From there, it returns to sea level via the three-step Gatun  Locks before emerging in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>The entire process takes just nine hours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-photo horizontal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/f57dd789208958c2c1ee0ba09110bae8fe48dab9\/c=525-0-4608-3069&amp;r=x513&amp;c=680x510\/local\/-\/media\/USATODAY\/USATODAY\/2013\/10\/24\/1382630865017-XXX-PanamaCanal17.jpg\" alt=\"Passengers watch from the front of the Celebrity Millennium as it sails out of the Panama Canal's Miraflores Locks.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Mind-boggling&#8217; vistas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As  is the case with many Panama Canal cruises, Millennium passengers get a  second chance to experience the canal the day after the transit when  the ship docks in Colon, Panama, not far from the canal&#8217;s Atlantic  entrance.<\/p>\n<p>A shore excursion takes them to Gatun Locks, where they   watch from a  platform as container vessels pass through the same  chambers that the Millennium navigated the day before.<\/p>\n<p>The four-hour outing includes a stop at a new set of locks under construction that are part of the expansion of the canal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mind-boggling&#8221;  is how Millennium passenger Barbara Sarjeant, 78, of New Plymouth, New  Zealand, describes the building frenzy on view from the visitors center.  Stretching out over more than a mile, the new locks are well underway,  with giant concrete walls already in place and hundreds of workers  scrambling over six-story-high structures that will hold some of the  largest gates in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those workers look like little ants down there,&#8221; Sarjeant notes.<\/p>\n<p>Begun  in 2007, the expansion could be a boon for the cruise industry. Though  the canal is large enough now for most of the world&#8217;s cruise ships,  lines such as Royal Caribbean and Carnival in recent years have been  building vessels even bigger than the maximum size allowed in the locks.  At 180 feet wide and 1,400 feet long, the new lock chambers will allow  such iconic ships as Cunard&#8217;s Queen Mary 2 to transit the canal for the  first time.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the major lines offer  canal cruises. Many,  such as Royal Caribbean and Carnival, operate just a handful of the  sailings each year as they reposition vessels between winter homes in  the Caribbean and summer homes in Alaska. Others, such as Princess,  offer  regular trips from late September through April.<\/p>\n<p>In  general, the voyages are long and leisurely, with lots of sea days. As  with this 15-night Millennium sailing, the typical &#8220;full transit&#8221; is a  one-way trip from California to Florida, or vice versa. Some lines also  offer a partial transit \u2014 a shorter, round-trip voyage to the canal from  Florida that includes a passage through the Gatun Locks only as far as  Gatun Lake. Either way, it never fails to impress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had  friends go through it and say it was spectacular, and they were right,&#8221;  says Joanne George, 70, of suburban Philadelphia. &#8220;It&#8217;s more than I  expected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/cruises\/2013\/10\/24\/panama-canal-cruise-celebrity-millennium\/3178983\/\" target=\"_blank\">More pictures here<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>If you go<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celebrity Cruises offers  15-night Panama Canal voyages from San Diego to Fort Lauderdale, or vice  versa, on several ships each year between September and April. Fares  start at $1,329 per person, based on double occupancy, for a windowless  &#8220;inside&#8221; cabin. Information: 800-647-2251; <a title=\"http:\/\/celebritycruises.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/celebritycruises.com\">celebritycruises.com<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also  offering regular Panama Canal sailings is Princess Cruises. The line&#8217;s  Island Princess and Coral Princess operate 10- and 11-night &#8220;partial  transits&#8221; of the canal round-trip from Fort Lauderdale, as well as  longer 15-night &#8220;full transits&#8221; between Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles,  between October and May. Fares start at $899 per person for the shorter  trips. Information: 800-774-6237; <a title=\"http:\/\/princess.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/princess.com\">princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Other  major lines with Panama Canal cruises include Holland America, Royal  Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian, Disney, Windstar, Oceania and Crystal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a great article in USA Today, people on a cruise explore the Panama Canal from the 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