{"id":9365,"date":"2014-01-09T11:48:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:48:31","slug":"great-divide-a-hundred-years-of-the-panama-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/great-divide-a-hundred-years-of-the-panama-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Great divide: A hundred years of the Panama Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/coral-princess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9366\" title=\"coral princess\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/coral-princess.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/coral-princess.jpg 620w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/coral-princess-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">The canal is still awe-inspiring. Simon Veness goes along for the ride<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"storyTop \">A hundred years ago, a small ship set sail on a  short voyage that changed the face of ocean-going navigation forever.  The SS Ancon made the 50-mile journey in a lengthy 10 hours, but it  represented a 7,800-mile saving on the alternate route from the Atlantic  to the Pacific, a treacherous 30-day voyage. It also signified the  culmination of 34 years of work, tens of thousands of deaths, the birth  of a nation and the confirmation of a new world superpower.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Panama Canal is every bit as awe-inspiring as it was at  its official inauguration in August 1914, and it remains a major  attraction more than 100 years after president Teddy Roosevelt was among  the first tourists here.<\/p>\n<p>Teddy was a shrewd, far-sighted  politician and his insistence on building an alternative to the long  passage around Cape Horn was the equivalent of John F Kennedy\u2019s 1960s  challenge to put a man on the Moon. After failed French efforts in  1880-1903, the US took over the project. It still took another 11 years  to complete, but the finished work was fundamental to creating the  Republic of Panama \u2013 originally a province of Colombia \u2013 and in marking  out the US as the world\u2019s most formidable force in maritime affairs.<\/p>\n<p>No  one knows exactly how many died in the course of the canal\u2019s  construction. The tragic and badly governed French expedition recorded  at least 22,000 who perished \u2013 mainly to disease but also treacherous  working conditions that included earthquakes, mudslides and equipment  failure. The American dig accounted for another 5,609 deaths, in the  process solving the 19th-century mysteries of how yellow fever and  malaria were spread.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Roberts, our onboard lecturer, provided  the perfect introductory insight into our destination en route from  Fort Lauderdale in Florida. We were sailing on the Coral Princess  operated by Princess Cruises, a ship that is in many ways a Panama  specialist, making multiple and partial transits each year. Ours was the  \u201chalf way\u201d voyage but it still afforded the full experience of the  massive Gat\u00fan Locks and Gat\u00fan Lake at the \u201ctop\u201d of Panama, the massive  man-made lake whose waterflow\u00a0 effectively controls the whole lock  process.<\/p>\n<p>The ship\u2019s ample deck space provided plenty of  opportunity to witness the full splendour of the various locks we passed  through in perfect close-up, both from the lofty perches of the Sports  Deck, some 150ft above sea level, and at eye-level on the Promenade  Deck, where you could practically high-five the occasional workman  overseeing the huge, largely automated operation. With the water  lowered, even our sea-going leviathan was dwarfed by the bulk of each  chamber \u2013 they accommodate a staggering 25 million gallons of water at a  time. Despite being built 100 years ago, the locks still work on the  original simple principle, allowing gravity to fill a series of culverts  that flow into and out of the locks, raising and emptying the water  level of each one in turn.<\/p>\n<p>The Coral Princess had arrived at the lower Gat\u00fan Locks at 5.30am on  the fifth morning of a 10-night voyage, having already visited the  southern Caribbean island of Aruba and frenetic Cartagena in Colombia,  where a visit to the Old City and stories of pirates provided vibrant  echoes of the Spanish Main. Now we were awaiting clearance to enter the  first of the three locks that lift ships 85ft to Gat\u00fan Lake, which  provides the conduit to the Pacific side and another three-stage lock  process to return to the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>At this early hour I was happy to  observe from the comfy confines of our stateroom balcony, afforded a  grandstand view without having to worry about pulling on more than a  dressing gown to observe the initial process of the massive 50ft-high  gates slowly opening to admit our bulk, with just two feet to spare  either side. Unseen valves, ducts and chambers then swung into action  below us, using nothing more than gravitational flow from the lake to  fill the lock and elevate all 91,627 tons of Coral Princess smoothly to  the next level. Attached fore and aft to electric \u201cmules\u201d \u2013 specially  built two-way train engines that act as controlled guidance through each  lock \u2013 we were carefully steered through.<\/p>\n<p>This fascinating  process was repeated twice more before the final gates opened to  discharge us into Gat\u00fan Lake and its surrounding panorama of steamy  forest and half-drowned islands. Howler monkeys and tree sloths vanished  from the view of my binoculars as fast as I could find them; a rich  birdlife added to the calls of a million frogs.<\/p>\n<p>As beguiling as  the wildlife might be, I was here for the canal and, happily, Roberts  offered a regular narration for each stage of the transit, adding the  appropriate key-notes of history as well as pointing out the occasional  crocodile sunning itself on the banks.<\/p>\n<p>There was plenty of time to  absorb the full effect of floating on the top of the Central American  isthmus \u2013 with all its oppressive humidity \u2013 before completing our lake  meander and returning to the Caribbean in the afternoon (the full  journey to Los Angeles takes two weeks) to sample the slightly dog-eared  port of Col\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>We then headed for more Latin flavours in Costa  Rica, where our call at Lim\u00f3n included a trip to a banana plantation and  a flatboat cruise along the inland waterway, where more monkeys and  sloths watched us go by.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day return voyage to Fort Lauderdale gave me ample time to  relax on the ship\u2019s expansive decks and finish my essential reading for  the journey, David McCullough\u2019s The Path Between The Seas, which tells  the full story of the canal, its failures, tragedies and triumphs. It  also serves to underline a period of history that reads more like a  novel and put our little day-jaunt around Gat\u00fan Lake in proper  perspective. I might well have travelled much of the same route as those  fearless adventurers who first mapped out the canal route in the 19th  century but I experienced none of their deprivations and hardships.<\/p>\n<p>Our  own vessel was positively packed with mod cons and creature comforts,  from the full-scale theatre to the choice of four restaurants and seven  bars. Even the great Ferdinand de Lesseps, scapegoat for the French  failure at Panama, probably never dined as well as we did. Nevertheless,  as elegant and enjoyable as Coral Princess proved to be its vast  structure was humbled by the immensity of the canal itself, an  engineering achievement of persistence, toil, ingenuity and obstinacy.<\/p>\n<p>De  Lesseps started it, Teddy Roosevelt gave it new life and President  Woodrow Wilson saw it completed. And we sailed blithely along it, giving  thanks for a cruise experience that dwarfs almost all others.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Getting there<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coral Princess (\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princess.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">princess.com<\/a>)  sails to the Panama Canal on a round-trip from Fort Lauderdale each  autumn, winter and spring, with occasional 14-night voyages to Los  Angeles and vice versa. A typical 11-night voyage departs on 15 March,  with an itinerary that includes Fort Lauderdale, Aruba, Cartagena,  partial transit of Panama Canal to Gat\u00fan Lake, Col\u00f3n, Lim\u00f3n (Costa  Rica), Grand Cayman and back to Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The canal is still awe-inspiring. 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