Greece: Corinth Canal transit, #1

On the afternoon of 24 May 2007 I was a passenger on the 10,000-ton Seabourn Spirit when that vessel made a transit of the 3.9-mile (6.3-km)-long Corinth Canal from west to east.

The 68.9-foot-wide (21-meter-wide) canal, constructed between 1881 and 1893, connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea's Saronic Gulf. Cutting through the Isthmus of Corinth, the canal separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland. In effect, the Corinth Canal creates an island out of the Peloponnesus.

Although ships narrow enough to utilize the canal can shave 400 kilometers off their journey, most of the 11,000 annual canal transits are now made for touristic purposes. Seabourn Spirit is 163 feet (49.7 meters) wide. This video clip shows the tugboat pulling Seabourn Spirit and the very steep walls of the canal.

For more information, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinth_Canal.

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Travel & Events

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• Greece
• Corinth
• Canal
• Seabourn
• Spirit
• Aegean
• Peloponnesus
• tugboat

[DANATENS]

BONITO PERO NO HABLA NI EXPLICA NADA DE NADA....

[MustafaLund]

@zonzeven he probaby means 49 at the top and 20 or less at the bottom lol!

[zonzeven]

The canal is 21 meter wide.

The ship is 49.7 meter wide.

Please, explain the passage ???

[Sxatzis92]

nice vid... the captain of the little ship is a cousin of mine... GEIA SOU R GIANNI!!!!!