[SunkenCiv]

The Corinth Canal | © mroach/Flickr

[Larry Lucido]

A man. A plan. A Canal. Corinth.

Dang, I’ll never be able to create a palindrome.

[BenLurkin]

I wonder if anyone ever bungee jumps off that bridge.

[Conan the Librarian]

Wouldn’t mind taking the sailboat through there one day, should we ever get to Europe.

[Ken H]

That’s an eerie canal.

[Steely Tom]

As the project was too complicated given the limited technical capabilities of the times, Periander constructed the diolkós, a stone road which allowed ships to be transferred on wheeled platforms.

They had something like that in Newark NJ, about 2400 years later. It was called a "plane," and there were many of them on what was called the Morris Canal. The one pictured below was called "Plane 12 East," and was built around 1830. It hauled canal barges up a height of 70 feet.

As you can see in the picture, the weight of a downward-heading boat supplied most of the energy needed to pull the other boat up the incline.

[chajin]

Those Greeks could dig ‘em deep and how!
(120 stadia on the Corinth Canal)

[Ann Archy]

been there.....it is SCARY looking, even more than this picture.

[Srednik]

The transit of a lifetime. The vessel maintains moderate speed. The bow waves press reflect off the sheer rock sides of the canal and resultant pressure helps keep the hull in the middle of the canal. If you are lucky, schoolchildren will be on the bridge above and drop a flower wreath onto your deck.