Lifting and lowering a multi thousand tonne ship with more than 5000 souls on board…. What an incredible experience!!!!

This was an amazing experience. It was awe inspiring to see the locks work.

Nice view point

Once in a lifetime experience, especially at night. We went through the newer locks, so we had tugs instead of trains pulling us through. There are actually two sets of locks to go through. One set raises you about 90 feet from sea level to the Lake level; you travel through the lake, then enter the second locks that drop you back to sea level. The engineering involved with the operation and construction is massive and hard to believe when seeing it in person.

I learned a new word - lockage. It's what they call the management of the water flow.

Like a control tower for airplanes at an airport but instead, they coordinate ships crossing the Panama Canal locks.

The canal passage conducted smoothly.

Friendly view for passing vessels.