The Panama Canal Pictorial View of the Worlds Greatest Engineering Feat Linki
The Panama Canal Pictorial View of the Worlds Greatest Engineering Feat Linki
Russell Thomas Herbert
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At Gatun, it will enter a series of three locks in flight and be lifted 85 feet to the level of Gatun Lake. It may steam at full speed through this lake, in a channel varying from 1, 000 to 500 feet in width, for a distance of about 24 miles, to Bas Obispo, where it will enter the Culebra Cut. It will pass through the Cut, a distance of about nine miles, in a channel with a bottom width of 300 feet, to Pedro Miguel. There it will enter a lock and be lowered 30^ feet to a small lake, at an eleva...tion of 54% feet above sea level, and will pass through this for about i l /> miles to Miraflores. There it will enter two locks in series and be lowered to sea level, passing out into the Pacific through a channel about S l /2 miles in length, with a bottom width of 500 feet. The depth of the approach channel on the Atlantic side, where the maximum tidal oscillation is 2 l / 2 feet, will be 41 feet at mean tide, and on the Pacific side, where the maximum oscil- lation is 21 feet, the depth will be 45 feet at mean tide.
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