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ggmyesterday at 9:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

Maps can be so misleading. It looks like a dredging operation in Omani waters could alleviate this, if we'd started decades ago.

Moving to a topographic view, it becomes clear the neck of land at "two seas view" is narrow, but tall. It would literally be moving a mountain.

Panamax and suezmax boats are smaller than ULCC supertankers.

Ferdinand De Lesseps time has passed. This would be ruinously expensive. Better to negotiate with rational intent.


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dylan604yesterday at 10:03 PM

> This would be ruinously expensive.

I bet it could have been done with the money spent on the "war"

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acomjeantoday at 12:35 AM

It always amazed me they made ships that just fit the Panama canal. I went though the locks years ago, it was quite a trip (and how a friend got met to go on a cruise)

https://aramcomjean.smugmug.com/Panama-Canal/i-94PDM8F/A