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Watch a Giant Container Ship Pass Through a Lock of the Panama Canal

Ever wondered what a giant container ship passing through the Panama Canal might look like? Well, it just so happens we were visiting down there last week, and managed to stop by the Miraflores Locks, on the Pacific side, to witness a giant Dole container ship—full of pineapples, we assume—ease its way into the canal.

The entire process involves three sets of locks (Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun) and takes about 8-10 hours (though they allow multiple ships to travel along the canal at once) from one ocean to the other. But worry not. We've gone ahead and sped up the process to cram a 45-minute Miraflores Locks crossing into an easy-to-swallow two-and-a-half minute video clip. See below!

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Oh Yeah, About That Canal…

Our own Brendan Spiegel is down in Panama this week and will be reporting back on all that he's seen and done. Whether or not he's wearing a Panama Hat, we can't say. But if you have any questions or suggestions for him, let us know.

Hopefully, our two weeks of raving about this Caribbean-Pacific paradise have led you to think of Panama as more than just a man, a plan and a canal.

But when you come back from Panama, all anyone ever asks about anyway is the canal, so you still kind of have to go. And even given all the hype, it is pretty awe-inspiring to see. Even just viewed from the plane, the sight of all those giant ocean liners queuing up to get through is something else.

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