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0982945 - 1998
PANAMA Gaillard / Culebra Cut
Contract engineers drill into Contractor's Hill on the Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal. The Gaillard Cut widening project is to widen the 9 mile cut as to allow two Panamax size vessels to transit the canal simultaneously. In the early 1900s when the cut was built, over 6,000 people died for its contstruction and around the same number laboured for 24 hours, seven days a week. Now just a few hundred men with machines and computers. The widening will be complete in 2002.
- 05/1998 Picture ©ÊJon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos
©2006 TopFoto / Jon Mitchell
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