Dive summary:
- Enlarging the Panama Canal will allow much larger freighters to access the East Coast of the United States, but then what? They have to have somewhere to dock with their cargo.
- For 15 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been driving a project to take the bottom of New York Harbor from 41 feet deep down to 50 feet to accommodate those behemoths carrying 13,000 containers instead of the current 5,000. That will allow New York to compete with West Coast deep-water ports that have long held an advantage as ports of entry from Asia.
- Nearing its 2014 completion, the dredging project has scooped enough material from the bottom of the harbor to fill a football stadium that was as deep as Mount Everest is high.
From the article:
We were halfway between Coney Island and John F. Kennedy International Airport when we saw the horses. There were six of them trooping along the sandy shoreline, which was a surprise to most of us on board The American Princess, but not to Dave Avrin of the National Parks Service. ...
