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Corinth Canal

Uploaded by Barry McCrindle , Nov 15 2009 10:32 AM

Corinth Canal

Going through Corinth canal August 2009

borrowed from Wiki

The Corinth Canal is considered a great technical achievement for its time. It saves the 400 kilometres long journey around the Peloponnesus for smaller ships, but since it is only 21 metres wide it is too narrow for modern ocean freighters. The canal is nowadays mostly used by tourist ships; 11,000 ships per year travel through the waterway. The water in the canal is 8 metres deep.
At each end of the canal, seashore roads cross using submersible bridges that are lowered to the canal bottom to allow maritime traffic to pass.




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    Nov 15 2009 10:38 AM
    Nice one Barry - bit claustrophobic I would have thought  :fishin:

    Official web site for the canal is @ http://www.corinthca...om/en_index.php - worth a read about its history.

    Regards

    Steve E.