Panama Canal.

[thedock1010]

Hello, does anyone else here watch the Panama Canal web cam. I've seen plenty of comercial ship pass thru, from container ships, to RORO, even some cruise ship, and ocasionaly at night I have seen something that looks like a military ship. I do not see any markings for Identification, not sure if it's obscured or just bad camera angle. So far I've always seen them at night, maybe that is intentional.

[Maritime Michael Ian]

Hello!

Yes I often have a look at the Panama webcams, trouble is they are not live, one has to wait a while for ships movements to change, still it's interesting watching them; even more so if one has been through the canal so that the experience can be relived again.

Ian:)

[mike555]

on the following web site
WWW.MERCHANT-NAVY.NET
they have the panama web cam also a speeded up
version of the last 24 hours.
there are numerous other web cam sites here.
why not have a look.
mike:cool:

[mik43]

The cameras do not update continuously but every minute, which for something going through the locks is enough I would suggest. The major types of shipping are the container ships and the car transport vessels which must be the outright winner for being the ugliest looking ships around! Cruise liners tend to go through during daylight hours so that that punters can see the canal for the whole of their traverse. Military vessels do appear to be few and far between, I have yet to see one myself after a number of years viewing the canal webcams.
Mik

[nigelweysom]

Ive just been looking at it , not much happening at the moment ,raining
for a direct link i used www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
Nigel
having just looked at it again i have realised that it is a lock something that i never new i thought that it was just a canal
Nigel

[oldsalt]

In 1965 I went through the Panama Canal in Tiger when we did a cruise around S. America. Since then I have been through a couple of times when I was in the MN in an oil tanker. If I remember there was so little clearance on both sides, the ship acted like a piston in a cylinder and the engines were nearly full ahead to assist the lock side bogies. It was a more interesting passage than the Suez.:cool::cool: