Panama Canal Miraflores Locks Ships Transit - Esclusas de Miraflores Canal de Panama

This is the NCL Norwegian Jewel Cruise Ship Panama Canal Transit through Miraflores Locks where you can see the Locks filling with water to lift ships from the Pacific Ocean side up to the Gatun Lake. Watch videos of the other Panama Canal Locks and the Gatun Lake by visiting our Panama Canal Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MozOSZrY6sQ&list=PLQqEFhg9OtL7vvl2glZ-hNqR9jT06hbVI Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are lifted (or lowered) 54 feet (16.5 m) in two stages, allowing them to transit to or from the Pacific Ocean port of Balboa in Panama City. Ships cross below the Bridge of the Americas, which connects North and South America. Watch our Bridge of the Americas video: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQqEFhg9OtL7vvl2glZ-hNqR9jT06hbVI The Miraflores Locks Panama Canal Visitor Center [Spanish: Centro de Visitantes de Miraflores Canal de Panamá] is a Visitor Center (at 5:00 in this video) with terraces, observation decks, restaurant and a gift shop that allows tourists to have a full view of the Miraflores locks operation. The Panama Canal locks [Spanish: Esclusas del Canal de Panamá] are a lock system that lifts a ship up 90 feet (27 metres) to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage. There are twelve locks in total. A two-step flight at Miraflores, and a single flight at Pedro Miguel, lift ships from the Pacific up to Gatun Lake; then a triple flight at Gatun lowers them to the Atlantic side. All three sets of locks are paired; that is, there are two parallel flights of locks at each of the three lock sites. From the outset, it was considered an important safety feature that ships be guided through the lock chambers by electric locomotives, known as mulas (mules, named after the animals traditionally used to cross the isthmus of Panama), running on the lock walls. These mules [as can for example be seen at 10:48 and 13:12 in this video] are used for side-to-side and braking control in the locks, which are narrow relative to modern-day ships. Panama Canal Crossing. Miraflores Locks Panama City Ships Transit Panama Canal. Cruise Ship Panama Canal Transit. Panama Canal Miraflores Transit Norwegian Jewel. Norwegian Jewel Cruise Ship Panama Canal Crossing. Ships Crossing The Panama Canal. Watch our other WorldWide Travel Videos & Subscribe for more to come. Don't miss Any!! https://www.youtube.com/user/TsTtravelshare/playlists?view=1&sort=lad&flow=list