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 ...

After nine months of Capitol Hill lobbying, the push for a "lake and lock" canal, favored by Roosevelt, succeeded. Stevens would dam the mighty Chagres to create the vast Gatun Lake in Panama's ...

Opening of the Panama Canal showing American Steamship SS Ancon leaving the west chamber of the upper Gatun locks and entering Gatun Lake, Panama, August 15, 1914. - PhotoQuest/Getty Images The US ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal was a multi-national ... Stevens also scrapped the plan for a sea-level canal and asked the ICC to approve a lock system with a dam and artificial lake.

For Panama Canal visitors, here’s a guide to experiencing and understanding the mega engineering project that captivates the world.

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 ...

Born from “gunboat diplomacy,” the Panama ... canal from across the Caribbean. An ingenious system of locks designed by the US Army Corps of Engineers raised ships from ocean level to Gatun ...

If you are desperate to see the canal in action but can’t make it to Panama, the ACP livestreams activity at five sets of locks, and the canal runs 24 hours a day. To do a deeper dive into the ...