Panama Canal: The Brutal Conditions Endured To Build An Engineering Marvel | Super Structures
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Deep in the jungles of Central America, man has battled nature to build an engineering marvel. Its epic story continues to astonish us! Its dimensions defy imagination! It’s price…thousands of lives. It’s the crossroads of the world’s economy. Many have gone to war over it.
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Man I I got to get sleep I got work in the morning but this is interesting who feels my pain
Same here
Same lol
👍🏿
It's currently 1 am and I gotta be up at 545 but these documentaries are just too interesting
Two improvements happened after this documentary... 1) Total rehabilitation of the Panama Canal railway including conversion to standard gauge, replace all the ties and rails and and use new engines and flat cars for container shipments. 2) The Panama Canal expansion project completed 2016
The Johnstown dam was privately owned by a hunting lodge. The lodge closed and maintenance on the dam ceased. The bypass channel for the dam was not cleaned and during a heavy rain, the bypass channel backed up and over stressed the dam itself which caused the failure.
The Force is strong with this narrator !
That was an incredible documentary ! So Interesting, and well done! Thanks,
The Canal was built with Manpower Mulepower and Steam
Mu grandfather Eldred Solomon Glass worked in the Steam Shops until he contracted yellow fever, he had gained his knowledge in the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Liked the documentry. I have issue giving credit to Edison for the electrical power for the cannel. I believe Tesla built the first hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls in 1895. Edison was behind dc current. Looks like the Panama Cannel is powered by ac current.
Watching from panama canal haha transitting
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The idea behind the operation of the locks is genius - pity most things are not made idiot proof today!
I don't know why is presented this way, but it's actually a normal design for locks.
I live in Panama City. This just popped up on my recommendations.... Can't wait to see this. Hopefully they get it right.
Paul
“If you do not surrender we are prepared to level each and every building” that is possibly the most gangster shit I’ve ever heard lol
Brilliant brilliant engineering ideas and work, hats off to the American engineers. That was in 1920s, when modern engineering was still at its infancy. Glad I have been to Panama Canal in mid 1991.
Yes . . . they didn't rule by computer. Jus can't imagine working, designing . . . by slide ruler.
1920s?
It was before ww1 the US started in 1904 and finished in 1914.
@@paulsuprono7225
Absolutely right, the job was finished before WWI, ahead of schedule AND under budget❗❗
Something you don't see in either category these days❗❗
But Leftist Marxist DemocRATs will still say America has never done anything good for the world...
DemocRATs, gotta love them, can't shoot them❓🤔❓
🤔❓❓❓right ❓❓
@@Crashed131963
And America did it when no one else could❗🇺🇲❗
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AWSOME IDEA MR.STEVENS👍👍
Amazing.
Nicola Tesla and Westinghouse Who invented first the electric power generator, not Tomas edison
Excellent, I really feel so proud of our USA Engineers! Part of this land belongs to my family, the Emiliani Family, in PANAMA REPUBLIC OF PANAMA. AND ITS SADDENING FOR ME TO TELL THE WORLD, THAT BEHIND ALL THIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENT, A STORY WAS NEVER TOLD, of how the land was strip from the people and stolen BY THE USA. MY grandfather was very wealthy had industries of coconut oil that he export to the world, plus many other real estate properties since 1886. The railroad of the USA, sue my grandfather, and my grandfather won in the Courts of the USA, in Cristobal Canal Zone, in PANAMA. And still sits on my land, without paying for.
The USA would never do such a despicable act LMFAO. iF YOU COMPLAIN SOME DAY A DRONE WILL SEEK YOU OUT
@@ChristopherMullen58 hello, yesterday you send me a trea, for something that I tell is the truth. Look for it in the SENATE ARCHIVE... under ESTATE OF ROMANO EMILIANI.
YOU have treaten me and possibly my family. Be asure that my Italian family from now on will be watching. Pray that nothing happened to me to my childrens, grandchildren NOT NOW, NOT TOMORROW AND NEVER! THE FBI, also was notified.
@Cabin Donnie
Yes, they are in Capital letters, and also on the Bill on the Republican Senate to the President it said ESTATE OF ROMANO EMILIANI and it was send to the President for approval.. all our deeds and papers and licence too. Your driver license should be in capital letters.
@@nelyemiliani3989 I think you've misread Chris Mullens comment wrong. He is not stating any threats or aggression, he's being sarcastic about the US never doing anything despicable because WE all know historically the US has been very despicable. Maybe language barrier caused some confusion in how you took his comment, but I assure you, it's sarcasm. Electronic communication isn't the easiest to convey emotions.
@@nelyemiliani3989 by the way, this is very interesting and I'm glad to see so many with family history commenting.
Wonderful recount of how it was done and all the benefits it represented for the world trade.
World Trade for Top 15 % of population controlling, colluding, siphoning, stashing, killing, gathering 70 to 80 % of Global wealth and 80% of Global population sharing less than 20 or 30 %.....Environment is total mess...in any industrialized countries....for your reference please read the books following by few authors...
1. Chris Hedges,
2. Richard wolf
3. Noam Chomsky
4. Noami Klein
5. Joseph Stiglitz
6. on environment read...Rachel Carson...
you will get the truly reality on the ground...
What a structure, this should be called another "Wonder" of the World. Truly amazing, and only Uncle Sam could have done it. Fantastic 👍👍👍. Geoff Lewis, Wales, UK, 🏴🏴🏴
A great story from 1998
my Grandfather George Victor McIntosh was in the 6 th ship to exit the Panama Canel he was a Steem Engineers one of the last to get Malaria.
they emitted all the fule and oil to kill the Mosquito larva as so many caught malaria .
I had asked him of his voyage 50 uears prior he shook all over .
he hot off the ship at Boston purchassed a Harley met my Grandmother and married her Ruth Cecelia Lawrence .
Stevens did not build the 1000 miles of rail road. He ordered the slaves to build it. Please do not try to overlook actual history.
Now USA does not owns or administers the canal any longer and about ten years ago the Panama's government on its own revamped it to accommodate bigger ships. They have been very succeful in their efforts.
They didn’t “revamp” it. They built a new, second set of locks.
brilliant engineering
The film is incorrect about the Titanic being the SECOND of the largest ships afloat. It was the THIRD. The White Star liner RMS Olympic was launched the year before (1911). The OLYMPIC was the ship that received all the publicity and public interest. The Titanic was almost identical to the Olympic, differing in only a few cosmetic details. In contrast to the Olympic, the Titanic received much less publicity than the Olympic when it was launched. However, of course, everyone remembers the Titanic because it sank; practically no one remembers the Olympic. When the Olympic was only 3 years old, World War I broke out. The ship was removed from passenger service and turned into a troop carrier. After the war, the luxury class for which the two ships were designed was much smaller. The Olympic continued carrying limited numbers of first- and second-class passengers, but it was mainly an "emigrant carrier" (3rd class, of course, which was still greater luxury than a lot of 3rd-class passengers had ever seen), to help transport the hundreds of thousands of emigrants from postwar Europe to the US and other countries. It was decommissioned in the early 1930s and cut up for scrap in 1937. If the Titanic had not sunk, its history probably would have been the same as the Olympic's, and practically no one alive today would ever have heard of it. P.S. After 1870, all of the ships built or acquired by the White Star Line had names ending in "-ic:" Britannic, Atlantic, Germanic, Arabic, etc. Whose idea was that? How should I know?
38:17 dude in front fell to his death
Proof?
Been there done that and even lived near it as a kid when they got Noriega, I miss PC
Direct currant Edison gets all the credit? Lol It should be Tesla with alternating current who gets the credit.
nice show!
they never mention the fact that panama was not the first choice to build the canal.
They seem to leave out quite a few things as far as determining where to cut the channel. What was the first choice?
@@Ghostshadows306 Nicaragua.
When I was stationed in the Canal Zone in the early 1970s, I do not recall being bitten by a single mosquito!
Because the US Army cleared out the mosquitoes before construction resumed.
I don't remember any either.
@@ronobrien7187 20th decade technology . . . remains alive, today !
Opps . . . 20th century technology
@Cabin Donnie I was at Ft Clayton, ASA Southern Command
Went through it on a cruise ship. Epic.
The Raw Trooth?
The Western entrance to the Panama Canal leads into the Caribbean, not the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean leads to the Eastern entrance!
Unbelievable but true.
Amazing man made idea and manpower to make the artificial canal happens as it is now known when COMPLETED.. PANAMA CANAL..
GLORIOUS ENGINEERING and SUCCEES
Only the usa wow great job
Is there any form of marine life in the canal and does it also go through the locks.
There's schools of fish that inhabit their own parts of the canal but they mostly stay in the lakes
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Keep up the great videosssssss too goodd
Thank you.
True that
Anyone else find the narrator obnoxious? Every other line is about his hardon for America.
I'd settle for being able to hear him properly - as so often in RUclips videos the background music is far too loud and intrusive.
And Jimmy Carter GAVE IT ALL AWAY !
Good info.. 🙏🏼 Tqvmc
'And the World Trade Center' - Oh, not for all that long.
History is fascinating! Thank you, much.
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It must have been a living breathing hell on Earth.
Great documentary.
DONT LET THEM FOOL YOU THEY EXCLUDE PANAMANIANS FROM THEY OWN CANAL
The flesh of man flew through the air like birds.
The Railroad sue my grandfather and they lost, because my grandfather had proof that he was the owner of that land. My grandfather took his case all the way to the Senate of the USA, and the Republican Senators, agreed that he was the owner and the USA SHOULD PAY US, but Roosevelt Veto it. But left it open for Us the heirs to collect from the USA... but it has being hard for us to collect from the USA.
The railroad still sitting on my land without paying us!
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Y’all need to finish this video with the completion of the new locks for bigger Ships 🚢.
The Germans also contemplated to attack the Panama Canal but later decided against it.
@Thomas Wilson just google it
it makes me sad to think that history is dying "(
my first question
what about the new locks?
This is before the new canal was built.
The fee for ships to pass the new canal are higher. So cruise ships prefer to use the old one. Moreover, the fees vary by the time of the day, so you can see a number of freight ships waiting on the Gatun lake for (night time) lower fees.
By the way, at one point there was a plan to update the locomotives. But the new ones failed in the damp environment in no time. Back to the old ones!
they got them back from bugs bunny
Very interesting documents.
Great thoughts
Hate the invasion reminder, one of the most shameful acts committed for bogus reasons by my beloved USA in my life.
What about the part when Columbia said f no to us "leasing" the land. We stole it and called it Panama
Wzxb
@Jonathan Williams Thats what is taught in Jr. High. It was actually the coast of newly independent Colombia. Panama was a city in Colombia.
Mr. Muller why did you send me a treat? My Italian family will know about this. If ever something happened to me, they will know who to seek also with a drone.
31:27 oof
Lol. Right when I saw that I realized how old this documentary is.
Go at 51:39
Let it play till the end.
Then press Replay.
Ads will disappear
Or use Firefox browser with adblock plus
@@Sturminfantrist
Adblock works fine.
I have said this mostly for the RUclips app,
because Adblock doesn't work in the app.
On the other hand,
this method works everywhere.
Dear channels and bloggers. Please do someting abt the adds. New update is Very irritating
Ship crossing is not cheep, nowadays 2022 a half a million dollars or more one way.
So nobody on here even mentioned that Panama only exists because of the canal? The US screwed those people over big time (shocking, I know) Calling it the truth behind the Panama canal is ridiculous.
2,000 years from now. "How do you think our primitive ancestors cut this Canal through the Isthmus of Panama?". Other guy," They couldn't have, must have been Aliens."
an alternate, cheaper and faster way is looming.....the northern canadian passage where bigger and wider ships could travel.
Any idea how much do they charge a large ship to travel through the canal.
Just a guess
a lot
And the Japanese Seiran aircraft at 47 min of this video is in dead on display at Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, VA.
We did what we had to do to protect the world economy!
Built for the 2 biggest ships at the time well we know what happened to the Titanic, BUT the USS Pennsylvania was the sister ship to the USS Arizona and we should know what happened there.
Why don’t they just build one down by Chile
im sure they considered that my friend. but panama fwiw, has the least amout of terrain they have to cut through.
Bummer the Navy sunk the huge sub. Oh Well. They did the same thing to our LCS's.... -no surprise.
"Then, 50 million years ago..." AKA, "Once Upon a Time" along with other fairy tales.
During WW2 Japan and Nazi Germany contemplated to attack the canal.
This film . . . show, is two decades plus (20+) old . . . unfortunate but true, ships of today are too large for canal transit ! 😬
It's no wonder that Russia eagerly awaits the Blue Ocean Event in the Arctic, eh?
Its to great of a short cut. Two smaller ships can deliver goods quicker than one large ship going around Cape Hone of South America.
Also why not unload at San francisco and just ship the stuff by rail to the east coast?
Look up: Manuel Noriega - Wikipedia
Manuel Noriega also had ties to the US intelligence
agencies. It wasn't that he was a brutal dicktator
that bothered the U.S and their democratic system or human rights.
It was about the interest of the prophets of U.S corporations
and the insatiable needs of an exponentially growing consumer
class.
Your image with the World Trade Center, Chrysler, Empire State Building, and the locks is wrong: EACH of the 3 locks is that tall - the group of 3 locks is 3150' long, more than the Burj Khalifa.
is this narrated by Mark Hamill?
Yes, it says so at the beginning credits
@@consecuencias.imprevistas I must have missed that somehow
@@rogerhazen3664 now im listening closer
lol how old is this documentary? it shows a picture of world trade center lol... 2001? jeeez.... nonetheless, very interesting documentary
it's also at this point where i paused and took a look at the comments
It says at the end “as we approach the year 2000” so I would assume it’s some time in the late 1990s
1997, I think.
Wow. I didn’t know they even had documentaries in the 1990s!
My Great Grandfather help build the Canal
any one else skip past the eugene levy parts of this video??? I cant hang
I'm on a quest to leave a comment on every single video on RUclips, at least all of them up until today. RUclips says it is presently hosting 4.67 billion videos as of today, Feb. 3, 2020 . . . if I start typing now, how long do you think it will take me? What should I say in each comment? I can't just write just anything-it has to have something to do with the video I'm leaving the comment on. Like for this one, I'm so glad Willam Gorgas was the medical officer for the Panama Canal. Without him the mosquitoes would have won.
Yo- So it has been three months. How is the journey my friend?
Belize central America I'm from can you imagine if titanic didn't sink on her first voyage maybe it would have traveled the Panama Canal to access the Pacific!! ✌🙏🌎💯
Would have sunk and blocked the canal. Iceberg did us all a favour.
The truth??!?!?! You mean it’s really not a canal in Panama??
Didnt watch it. Read the title. Know the answer. Lots and lots of digging
The French tried that it didn't work. Watch the show
@@ericbeattie761 nope.
All this for 30 F...n DAYS ..? REALLY ,,,,,, that's HUMANOIDS way to go 😲
7:52
I’d have built it proper, I’d have built it a sea level canal. Do away with all those complex gates and things, no mechanics or electrics to go wrong!
LOL
At 4time 2:00: 5000 "American" and 25 000 French were lost. No South American? Ignorance.
Typical USA talk.
Exactly. No West Indians either.
1998 Documentary with nothing about the Expansion ! Using that thumbnail is the equivalent of CLICKBAIT !
Don’t think anyone cares
noone care. post better instead of complaining you lazy vile piece of worthless shit
M65 such a vitriolic reply to a 11 month old comment about a repackaged old video seems like you are a big fan of CLICKBAIT.
what was the insecticide?
DDT, it is illegal now. It was fogged in the streets at night in Odessa, Texas in the sixties.
Why not a lockless canal with more digging?
Money , labor force and time.
@@richarda996 They considered once the idea for the 2nd canal.
Short answer; Maybe.
gotta get those Carriers through there. it will stay open.
how about the Yellow Fever
they never mention the fact that panama was not the first choice to build the canal.
the Atlantic an Pacific freely flowed? thats not possible unless the salinity is equal
I swam on the east and west coast of Mexico the water seemed the same to me.
Button 3000 miles away OK
love how train guy was like yall need a train! and they were like oh shit yeah we do' and hes like duh
It is pointless asking spark they never answer
And they laid a 3000 mile wire across America and across an ocean so Wilson could trigger last explosion.
And used dc electric batteries,
Edison’s technology.
Just amazing.
A battery on site would have set of the dynamite instead of laying a 3000 mile cable to set it off
👍💙
tom lattimore Australia
the Canal was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers. That is with taxpayers money. show me a balance sheet or any paper how much the Taxpayer got back. NORIEGA was a -good guy- as long as the Canal authorities delivered the profits to the USA. The Panama People? Except the few hundreds that actually worked there? They should have been the richest nation on earth with all the royalties and fees the canal brought in. Noriega tried to change that system and keep the canal for the Panamanians. All over sudden he was a narco baron, though had always - good connections with the US intelligence services - , -pineapple face - ( because of his pockmarks). So under this pretext the USA - invaded - Panama....wonder though how the GERMANS got involved there? at 30 minutes, some drawings are shown. In German langauge...
6 months ahead of schedule and 4% under budget, so why today everything is late and over budget?
5,609 people died making the Panama canal. that's mostly why stuff takes longer today, were much less focused on not killing thousands of people for profit