And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Remember trip to the Great Lakes as a kid and watched some ship go though the locks, I seem to remember hours watching and didn't see but 3 seconds of this video.
About 15 years ago my oldest was in the Coast Guard. His cutter was making a transit of the canal on their way to exercises with the Navy in the Pacific. He could give me only a very rough idea of when they would be passing through. On the most likely day I got on the webcam for the last lock before the Pacific and stayed there all day, checking it every half hour or so. At about 11:30 that night there they were. His cutter was about 200 feet long so they put it in the lock with another small ship. They looked like toy boats in a bathtub. I took screen shots and emailed them to him. He had been below decks the whole time and couldn't take pictures but they couldn't stop me.
Not every sailor will know the exact time or even location of his ship. To that end, the son was being truthful when he said he doesn't know the exact time of their transit.
BTW: for smaller vessels, the Canal authorities will place the vessel on notice for transit. That is translated as, Stand by, ready to go when we call you.
Remember trip to the Great Lakes as a kid and watched some ship go though the locks, I seem to remember hours watching and didn't see but 3 seconds of this video.
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DeleteAbout 15 years ago my oldest was in the Coast Guard. His cutter was making a transit of the canal on their way to exercises with the Navy in the Pacific. He could give me only a very rough idea of when they would be passing through. On the most likely day I got on the webcam for the last lock before the Pacific and stayed there all day, checking it every half hour or so. At about 11:30 that night there they were. His cutter was about 200 feet long so they put it in the lock with another small ship. They looked like toy boats in a bathtub. I took screen shots and emailed them to him. He had been below decks the whole time and couldn't take pictures but they couldn't stop me.
ReplyDeleteWTH is so secret about a C.G. cutter going thru the Canal?
DeleteAre there Panamanian terrorists trying to make headlines?
Not every sailor will know the exact time or even location of his ship. To that end, the son was being truthful when he said he doesn't know the exact time of their transit.
DeleteBTW: for smaller vessels, the Canal authorities will place the vessel on notice for transit. That is translated as, Stand by, ready to go when we call you.
When we put our minds to it we can do great things.
ReplyDeleteI went through the Panama canal on a 381ft submarine. I was able to watch from the deck the entire time. We were the only vessel in the lock.
ReplyDeleteFun fact: The Caribbean sea/Atlantic end of the Panama canal is further west than the Pacific end.