How the panama canal is operated?

Question

How the panama canal is operated?

Answer 1

nicole pretty much said it all..the ships are pulled thru the canal by "mules"..locomotives..and tugboats...it is a 8-10 hour transit..can be pretty boring tho

Answer 2

www.pancanal.com

Answer 3

Check out the source link it should provide what you need.

John.

Answer 4

O.K. LEts see if I can answer this question in an easy understandable way.

There are Three sets of Locks THe  Pedro Miguel Locks, Gatun Locks and Miraflores Locks.. These Locks are spread from the Atlantic to the Pacific through a channel that was hand made by the French and American Goverments.  The Locks are fed by the Gatun Lake....

Every time a boat comes through one of the Locks the Gatun Lake Feeds the Lock leveling the boat to the Sea level (Atlantic ocean has a higher level than Pacific).

It is like a ladder

Lets Say that a Cruise is Comming into the Pedro Miguel Lock (Three locks).  

First it goes into the the first lock .. THe boat goes in, they close the lock,  dispose some of the water to the point that is leveled with the next lock, they open the lock, the boat moves to the next lock they close it, they level the boat again and they do this three times on each set of locks (set of three)...the boat continues sailing throug the channel and repeats the same procedure on the last two sets of locks and then continues its journey to the next sea..I hope I was clear enough.