Panama City and The Worlds Most Amazing Canal

Truly one of the worlds most amazing engineering marvels, it's hard not to be awestruck watching the massive freighters being raised and lowered on Mira Flores Locks. Cutting right through the continental divide, the canal stretches nearly 80 kilometers from the Pacific to the Atlantic and an incredible 14, 000 ship pass through the canal each year, today's ships are all built with the Canal's dimensions in mind. The average fee per ship is $30,000 dollars, although someone swam through in 1928 and only had to pay .36 cents. Skewing the average a little isn't he