The TEN Spot

December 1

#10 | Podcast Time

Last month I had the opportunity to sit down with Vance Crowe, discussing everything from the producer mindset to the Mississippi River and even my name change on his popular podcast.

You can check it out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube.

Also - Vance produces something very unique and interesting:

Legacy Interviews - professionally recorded video conversations with an individual or couple designed to capture the stories, memories and history of your family.

Check it out HERE.

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#9 | A turn for the worse

While water levels on Gatun Lake have be on the slightest of rises in recent weeks, they remain more than 5 feet below normal and with Panama’s dry season one month away, it spells extreme trouble for the Panama Canal.

To refresh your memory - the Panama Canal features a system of locks that lift ships 85-feet above sea level to Gatun Lake, before lowering them again, saving thousands of miles as a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Lock operations are powered entire by gravity, utilizing freshwater from Gatun Lake to raise and lower vessels.

More than 13,000 ships transit the canal each year at an expense of more than 50 million gallons of water each.

Normally, this would be of little concern but with lake levels bordering on all-time lows and the dry season fast-approaching, Panama is facing a growing water deficit to the tune of 800-million-gallons EACH DAY.

Gatun Lake not only provides the water for canal operations, but supplies half the country’s drinking water as well.

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#8 | Restricted

In an effort to conserve water the Canal Authority has reduced the number of ships allowed to transit the canal each day.

Restrictions have been in place for months now, leading to a backlog of vessels waiting on either side of the Isthmus of Panama.

From August to October, daily transits were cut by 20%. Today, transits have been reduced by 40% which will eventually work toward a more-than-50% reduction by February.