Scrolls Society on Instagram: "The Panama Canal is a remarkable lock-based waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by lifting ships over Panama’s elevated terrain instead of cutting a sea-level channel. Massive concrete locks act like giant water elevators: ships enter the chambers, gates close, and gravity-fed freshwater raises them in stages to about 26 meters above sea level. Vessels then cross Gatun Lake and pass through the narrow Culebra Cut, carved directly through hills an