Significados de sea-level canal em inglês

Congress should have decided in favor of a sea-level canal at Panama.

The majority of the members, including all the foreign members, approved a sea-level canal.

The Suez Canal is a sea-level canal, and it was the one best known to European engineers.

This congress, after a two weeks' session, decided in favor of the Panama route and of a sea-level canal without locks.

The American delegates were convinced, in the light of their knowledge and experience, that a sea-level canal would be impracticable, if not impossible.

But under certain readily conceivable conditions it is practically certain that the construction of a sea-level canal will consume not less than twenty years.

But if to adopt the plan of a sea-level canal means to incur great hazard and to incur indefinite delay, then it is not preferable.

The plan adopted was for a sea-level canal having a depth of 29.5 feet and a bottom width of 72 feet.