#PANAMA: Flying over the waiting ships East and West of the Canal Zone. @Michael_Yon.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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1914 Canal Zone
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| 0:31.6 | Debating Society, I'm John Bachelor, Michael Jan, at Michael Underline Jan. We last spoke when he |
| 0:38.8 | was at the Madden Dam built, 1935, as part of the water apparatus of the Panama Canal Zone. |
| 0:46.0 | Mademois Canal was created, developed, built, almost by hand, but certainly by railroad and steam |
| 0:54.1 | shovel, the beginning of the 20th century. It has been a vital part of the defense of North America |
| 1:00.2 | and the United States, and two oceans for more than a hundred years. Right now it's going through |
| 1:05.6 | a bad patch because there's a drought. The water in the canal is not adequate for the full loads |
| 1:11.3 | of ships coming through, so they have to semi-unload and go through without as much cargo. |
| 1:18.5 | However, Michael has had an opportunity in these last hours in an airplane to fly over the |
| 1:24.4 | Panama Canal, the width of it, length of it, come from one ocean to another, and the ship's waiting |
| 1:30.9 | on either side, the Pacific side or the Atlantic side to get through and to learn what those ships |
| 1:38.2 | represent. Michael, a very good evening to you, a spectacular trip you've flown over the Panama |
| 1:43.6 | Canal. What was your first impression? Good evening to you, Michael. |
| 1:46.8 | And evening, yeah, yesterday at eight in the morning when the weather was still good, we got up |
| 1:50.4 | in a two engine airplane and flew. We wanted to check out the ends of the canal. For instance, |
| 1:58.8 | the traffic jam that's out over the Pacific and the Atlantic. So first we flew over the entire |
| 2:04.7 | canal. Keep in mind the day before, by the way, we went out in a boat and went to Gattun Lake, |
| 2:11.2 | and by the way, the zonians here don't like to call it Gattun Lake. They like to call it Gattun Lake. |
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