Following the Coral Princess

The Panama Canal has three entry locks and three exit ones. The locks raise and lower the ships about 85 feet. In between is Gatun Lake which, at one time, was the largest man made lake in the world. In front of us is the Coral Princess, which has the record for being charged the most money to navigate the Panama Canal at $276,000. The lowest was a swimmer who was charged 26 cents to swim in one of the locks. The Coral Princess is about 88,000 tons; the Galaxy about 78,000.