Chart Shows Dramatic Drop in Gatun Lake Levels as Drought Hits Panama Canal Published Jun 15, 2023 at 4:59 PM EDT Updated Sep 21, 2023 at 4:27 PM EDT ...

On Gatun Lake, in the Panama Canal Zone, floats a little fleet of motorboats. They are blue-grey, stubby, old—so old, some of them, that they are kept lake-worthy mainly by the heroic ingenuity ...

Summary Part of the tropical forest being flooded in the Gatun Lake area, Panama for the Panama Canal. Contained within "Completion of the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone," Explorations ...

They then travel across Gatun Lake. The ship is then lowered by the locks to sea level. On average, it takes 8 hours for ships to cross the canal.