Like tossing a regulation hotdog down a precisely-fitted hallway.
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I was surprised at how little traffic there was...I counted just 24 ships.
Total transits are about 30-40 per day, so I guess this was a quiet day if you counted correctly.
A major container or bulk freight port might handle 2-3 ships on a busy day. A cruise liner port, often no more than one per week. So 24 is still a lot.
I suspect the gating (ugh) factor is the time to fill and drain the locks.
The Wikipedia article is fascinating.
This form says it doesn't allow iframe tags, and Youtube won't give the the embed code, so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9Frtkqy3Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xstd3_0usI
The trick is to "view source" to see what jwz put in the most recent blog post with an embedded video.
The form is smarter than you think.
The real trick is to find out why <br> tags are disallowed.
It's called panamax, a ship designed to be as big as possible and still be allowed to use the canal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panamax
A man, a plan, a canal.
Ha-ha! Many can play at that game! (Courtesy of Dan Hoey via Peter van der Linden)
A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal…
I need closure to that palindrome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-NshzYK9y0
So where does the time between 9:00 and 11:00 go? There's a ship about to enter the lock and then some video is simply missing.
That's when the shiploads of empty body bags go through, escorted by the black helicopters. Every day from 9-11.