Posted on 06/20/2015 9:27:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A $50 billion canal to be built by a Chinese tycoon in Nicaragua would be deep enough to allow submarines to pass through undetected.
Billionaire Wang Jing has spearheaded what is one of the biggest engineering projects in the world and is three times the size of any other canal, yet shipping forecasters don’t anticipate a need for such a route in terms of trading.
Many believe that Wang, who has not disclosed who his investors are, may be backed by the Chinese Government who hope to get a foothold in the continent where business has traditionally been dominated by the US. […]
The environmental impact could be catastrophic. The canal would cut through Lake Nicaragua, the largest fresh water body in Central America, which is an area of rich biodiversity and a vital habitat for many rare birds and fish. But the dredging that would be required to build the canal could transfer it into a “dead zone”. …
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The Panama Canal Expansion Project is due for completion next year. When done it can handle all but the very largest container ships. Nicaragua is building a canal for basically a few dozen ships that aren’t on that shipping route anyway.
Submarines are not the real issue here. The proposed canal would destroy one of the largest freshwater lakes in the region at a time when water is becoming a scarce commodity to much of the world.
There’s no a Chinaman’s chance this project will be completed.
This project defines the term boondoggle...it will never get built.
Cheaper to buy a little beachfront property in South America and Africa, no?
A sea level canal through Nicaragua was being discussed more than a century ago, and the decision was made to undertake the far more complicated Panama Canal project as being more feasible than creating one in Nicaragua.
Wonder what they knew then that we don’t know now?
“... would be deep enough to allow submarines to pass through undetected”
IIRC, sea level in the Pacific is 26 ft. higher than the Atlantic. Locks would be required for navigation.
How would a sub go through the locks undetected?
Duh?
Do you think any such canal will be completed before Jan. 2017? If ever even started, it might see completion by 2117.
This was just hot air from a failed totalitarian philosophy sliding toward the brink of being give the heave ho by the hoard of unhappy Chinese.
So, China will control both canals? Do bunker busters work under water?
Sounds to me like nobody but the Chinese would be around to detect them. Unless of course our navy starts operating independently from our current CIC or a successor just like him.
The ONLY submarine that cannot be readily detected is the one motionless on the bottom of the sea.
The entire premise is ridiculous.
While subs may use the canal, they will be EASILY detected, tracked and tailed.
By whom, though?
Anyone who wants to.
The boat has to nearly come to surface, then travel a canal only 85ft deep for 300 miles.
Certainly agree with “anyone who wants to”. And of course, those who do not want to will look the other way.
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