[Olog-hai]

Article says 26 meters, which is 85¼ feet.

[Michael.SF.]

Article says 26 meters, which is 85¼ feet.

Is that deep enough for a submarine to go through submerged? The article says: "undetected".

Piloting a submerged sub through a canal seems like it would be a remarkable feat.

[nathanbedford]

I cannot think of a passageway for submarines more easily obstructed than a canal only 85 feet deep. We have technology today capable of detecting evidence of minerals by radar hundreds of feet under the ground and I cannot imagine that every movement in such a canal will be anything other than an open book.

While I deplore the loss of Panama Canal and I fear the intentions of the Chinese with respect to the Nicaraguan Canal, those fears are economic fears grounded in a fear of a mercantilist emerging superpower.