The World's Shortcut: How the Panama Canal Works

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I thought you said it was free

Very informative. Thanks for this. I have often wondered how the canals worked - very similar to the small canals in England - I found it difficult to conceive of the scale. Thanks for this great production.
I would be very interested to know how the canals served shipping during the world wars. A future project perhaps?

Not every container headed to the interior of the United States is going through New Jersey. A large chunk of the traffic goes to Chicago. A flat map hides that the distances are much shorter up North than at the equator. On top of that, going nonstop at 70 mph cuts weeks from transit times, even though it means offloading containers and reloading them on ships on the East Coast

Amazing

panama canal sucks seasnakes are entering the atlantic over it

When I played HOI4 and I heard Panama Canal, I make sure to invade the owner, so I can have Panama Canal, then I blow it in case of war.

I play as Unitary Canada btw :)

What if they just dug the trench clean across and let the oceans mix

Fascinating!

Who operates the ports of Haiti ? Can they get some love?

Show lack of corrector, you over charge easements to operate and still goods.

If goods stay on ship, less likely to be stole.

Calculated 8 billion pounds into ship tonnage you will get a brain hemorrhage. METRIC its been around for more 200 years ,99% of the world would understand it for fuck sake.

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#BrilliantStuff

Its awful that 5600 people died building it, but at least they died building something to the benefit of all mankind.

Global warming LOL

hey dipshits at youtube.....why would anyone pay for commercial free premium account when you allow commercials on these videos.....as soon as I see a commercial...I go to the next video

We transited here last 2 days ago... yay 😃😃😃😃😃

'You See'

The announcer's pronunciation is tedius to listen to.

Aaaand there it is, a 'climate change' reference. Why?

Nicaragua could just have two deep water ports on each side of the country connected to a short railway.

You forgot to mention the part where Jimmy Carter just gave away the canal.

thanks for helping us reaching earth much quicker.

Just pump water in the lake feom the ocean

I was hoping we could scrap the border wall and just mine the boarder strip untill we've dug enough to run a canal there, and that would just be a byproduct of the boarder update.

Nope, they won't need more canal capacity. Climate change is melting the arctic which will become the primary shipping lane of the late 21st century.

This was freaking fascinating.
Really wonder how the future looks though, considering climate change and all.
PS: The big ass "NO SMOKING" Sign at 9:10 was kinda funny.

What about goung North og Canada egen the ice melts

At 6:32 you can see Newark Airport, therefore planes are in this video.

If building and operating the water channels is so expensive. And secondly, if trains are a competition, and ships land in Los Angeles where all the cargo is transfered to the cargo trains. Why not to build a rail instead in Nicaragua for the short distance?

Blahh blahh blahh shush! Enjoy the video and STFU! Great video, very informative and visuals.

Seems like climate change will have geopolitical impacts that benefit the US - limiting Chinese trade

Also thawing northern ice to facilitate access to arctic oil and ressources

Wow! Great stuff!

The canal only effects the american continent, Europe is fine, they can ship between themselves just fine.

fuck jimmy carter

Most annoying music background track ever. Sounds like phone ringing nonstop.

I don't know if they are but they could use some generators during locking the ships. Then they could use energy to pump some water back to the lake or just sell that energy.

No, they raised the Bayonne bridge already.

A few Caribbean countries will benefit and I'm assuming that the owners of such ports will take a large chunk of the monies back to their respective countries.

Just delete Panama

"Smaller ~SIZE~"

Is it that expensive to dig out the lake to accommodate the lower water level?

Well we might lose the Panama canal if climate change gets worse, but on the bright side the Northwest passage through Canada stays open longer and longer each year. Many expeditions ended up freezing to death trying to find the Northwest passage only to get stuck in ice, but now you can cruise through with your summer clothes on for much of the year. But don't worry, plenty of people still think climate change is a hoax.

1:22 HAMBURG

I'm surprise you didn't talk about the North Pole. If it permanently unfreezes, you don't need the canals anymore cause you can just cut through the North Pole instead of going around.

Fuck communist piece of shit Carter