The Deadliest Strip of Land In The World | Random Thursday
I was hoping Joe was going to talk about how difficult it is to cross from North America to South America by walking across Panama, but no, he's talking about building the Panama Canal. He's pretty entertaining, so I watched. One thing that caught my ear is he's talking about the Culebra Cut (11:20 mark) and how they had to lower the mountain from 59 meters to 12 and I'm thinking that must be an error. What kind of mountain is only 59 meters tall (200 feet for all you moon landing heathens)? Okay, it's not that tall, but the cut is 8 miles long, which means a heck of a lot of digging.
As Joe mentions (13:36 mark), the Panama canal has recently been enlarged, which has resulted in the expansion of some port facilities on the east coast of the USA and the container port in Kingston Jamaica, which I didn't expect.
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| Jamaica Kingston Harbor The port is just left of center. The other big piece of concrete near the bottom center is the airport |
Expanding the port in Kingston required dredging.
Jan De Nul Group - Kingston Port (Jamaica)
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| Kingston Port |
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| New container cranes arriving in San Juan Puerto Rico Just in case you were wondering how they delivered these cranes. |
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