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0982937 - 1997
PANAMA Gaillard / Culebra Cut -- As a ship glides by, a Panama Canal Commission contract surveyor uses his scope as work continues to widen the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal. Over 6,000 people died digging the cut at the turn of the century - equal to one whole shift of blasters and diggers. Now just a handful of civil engineers and labourers use earth movers, drills, GPS and explosives to widen the cut to allow two ships to pass simultanously and increase the traffic capacity of the waterway by 2002 -- 02/1997 Picture © Jon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos
©2006 TopFoto / Jon Mitchell
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