A video released from the US Coast Guard shows how one of its vessels travels through the Panama Canal ... lock raises the ships until they're 85 feet above sea level. They then travel across ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened ... in height and strength. The Gatun upper locks, mid-construction, Courtesy ...

Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels for this time of ...