Photos

This is second picture of the QE2 that I`m posting but unlike the previous one this scene is much calmer, this POV is exactly where the wave hit but as you can see the "picture" is quite different now.

On this view we were crossing the Panama canal, at this point we already had crossed the Gatun locks and were well underway to meet the Pacific ocean leaving the Caribbean behind.

The Panama Canal is a major ship canal in central america that has been dug between the caribbean and the Pacific connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Construction of the canal was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, it has had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, a ship sailing from New York to San Francisco via the canal travels 9,500 km well under half the distance of the previous 22,500 km route around Cape Horn, although the concept of a canal near Panama dates back to the early 16th century, the first attempt to construct a canal began in 1880 under French leadership, after this attempt failed and saw 20,000 workers die, the project of building a canal was attempted and completed by the United States in Panama in 1915, when the canal opened. The building of the 77 km canal was plagued by problems particularly malaria,yellow fever and landslides. As many as 27,000 workers are estimated to have died during construction of the canal.