{"id":461,"date":"2010-04-21T02:08:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T09:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2010-04-21T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T09:08:19","slug":"the-aquatic-highway-atlantic-to-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"The Aquatic Highway, Atlantic to Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ABOARD THE CELEBRITY MILLENNIUM \u2014 Reflections on the waters of the Panama Canal (add it to your bucket list, please):
\n\u2022 The three pilots and crew that boarded the ship on the Atlantic entrance were changed for a Pacific crew about halfway across the country, at Gamboa. There was one exception. Celebrity<\/a> lucked out in having Dezel Marshall as the Canal’s PR spokesman \u2014 his narration from Atlantic to Pacific was captivating.
\n\u2022 Because of the Canal, Panama City has grown into a financial center with 100 banks among the high rises.
\n\u2022 Before construction began, what is now the Canal was mountains and jungle. It’s still embraced by mountains and jungle.
\n\u2022 The Continental Divide is the narrowest part of the Canal.
\n\u2022 The Millennium was the largest ship to go through the Canal yesterday, paying a toll of about $200,000.
\n\u2022 Once a year, workers at the Gatun, Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks have a competition to see which of the three locks is best at throwing the line, rowing and pulling the rope. Why? For prizes and pride.
\n\u2022 The Smithsonian’s association with the Panama Canal predates its completion in 1914, and the Institute was given the six square miles that’s Barro Colorado Island, where a huge research center employs almost 400 people.
\n\u2022 A train tour across the Canal takes 55 minutes; by cruise ship it’s 12 hours, minimum.
\n\u2022 An eccentric named Richard Halliburton paid lock tolls of 36 cents to swim the canal, all 48 miles of it, in 1928.
\n\u2022 The Canal continues to be widened and dredged\u2026those ever-bigger ships pay bigger tolls!
\nThat’s it\u2026we’re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABOARD THE CELEBRITY MILLENNIUM \u2014 Reflections on the waters of the Panama Canal (add it to your bucket list, please): \u2022 The three pilots and crew that boarded the ship on the Atlantic entrance were changed for a Pacific crew about halfway across the country, at Gamboa. There was one exception. Celebrity lucked out in… Continue reading The Aquatic Highway, Atlantic to Pacific<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31,19,15],"tags":[35,80,79],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruises","tag-panama","tag-panama-canal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}