Island Princess in the Panama Canal

Timelapse of Island Princess passing through the Panama Canal from Pacific to Atlantic Ocrean on 17 October 2007

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Travel & Events

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• Panama
• Canal
• Island
• Princess
• Timelapse
• Time Lapse
• Cruise

[ccryder8]

Great video. How were you able to capture all the web cam shots to make this? I am going on the Island Princess on 4/6 and would love to be able to do this to have a keepsake of the trip.

[MagicTyger]

you need a screen capture program (like camtasia). Set it to record 2 frames per minute with a playback rate of 2 to 5 frames per second.

[OkapiAntfarm]

This shows crossing from Pacific to Atlantic.

What you see here:

0:13 The Bridge of The Americas

0:34 The Miraflores Locks (2 locks) (note: part of the sequence is shown repeated from two different views here)

1:05 entering Miraflores Lake

1:15 Pedro Miguel Locks (1 lock)

1:28 approaching Centennial Bridge, and the Galliard Cut toward and then across Gatun Lake. (Bridge sequence also shown repeated from different angles)

2:12 Gatun Locks (3 locks)

2:38 leaving canal into Limon Bay

[MagicTyger]

Many thanks for this information! Do you live there? Isn't it an amazing feat of engineering?

[RichardTheo]

Just enjoyed the quick trip through the canal...Takes about 5 hours on a good run...Thank You!!!

[Twitytwon]

Yeah, its something like that. It's like, the ground is uneven, like... umm... an up and down roller coaster [xD sorry, only thing I could think of] and because of that they had to have those locks in order to make the boat go up and down without...hurting[ is that the best word to use? xD I don't think so!] the ship... or something like that. -going off of memory since I learned about it today in social studies and my SS teacher told us to go here-

[ManWhoLovesTheMary]

What? I didn't know there was an easier way! I save each picture individaully. Thank GOD! Right now I'm waiting for the QE2 to leave Pt. Everglades, and the camera looks stuck. It's been on 15:00 for a long time. I'll check out that program.

[tf51d]

Nice Video, I did the canal trip on the original Island Princess, which was the sister ship to the Pacific Princess of which I also took cruises on. (The Love Boat) back in 81 It was awesome. The only thing that topped the canal cruise was my Alaska trip also on the Island Princess!

[alkamos]

i think its becuz its lyk if the gates weren;t there it would be lyk waterfalls kinda thing its not the same height the water or something im not 100% sure lol

[handicapable124]

i dont get the point of these lock thingys,whats the point of goin up and down,y not just not have them,what would happen?.......tell me summtin to where i can look or tell me

[jtoache]

I went on the Island princess 3 months ago and cross the panama canal.

[23lorica]

wow!...but the difference is...that youll be cruising while me...im gonna work there so see you there!!!