Our boat, the Costa Fortuna in the Suez Canal, each side having about this much room. We are in transit between Turkey and Israel.
Some fun facts: The Suez Canal is the realization of an idea devised since the ancient times. Various men over thousands of years tried to merge the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, not succeeding both for the hard work and the limited resources during that time, but for the adverse general belief that the Red Sea was at a height higher than the Mediterranean. Such conviction was denied November 17th, 1869 when the Canal, just completed, was opened to marine traffic. The canal is 100.5 miles long, 87.5 nautical miles deep, and takes between 11 and 14 hours to reach the exit into the open sea.
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