Monday, October 10, 2016

RSSC: Panama Canal | 7 Facts of an Iconic Engineering Feat

 
DID YOU KNOW?
 
 
  • Builders quite literally moved mountains to make this dream a reality.
  • More than 60 million pounds of dynamite was used to excavate and construct the canal.
  • In 1963 florescent lighting was installed, allowing the canal to begin operating 24 hours a day.
  • America originally wanted to build a canal in Nicaragua, not Panama.
  • The fastest transit was completed in 2 hours 41 minutes by the U.S. Navy's Hydrofoil Pegasus in 1979.
  • Between 13,000 and 14,000 ships use the canal every year.
  • The Canal transports 4 percent of world trade and 16 percent of total U.S.-borne trade.
 
 

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