Record-Breaking Tight Fit in the Corinth Canal. See Video
A British cruise liner just set a record as the largest vessel to transit the Corinth Canal, a four-mile-long, man-made cut that separates the Greek mainland from the Peloponnesian Peninsula. It was a tight fit. The liner, the MS Braemar, is 73’ 8” wide. The canal is 78’ 7” wide. (See the video below.) With little more than two feet to spare on each side, many of the ship’s 1,200 passengers could have reached out and touched the sides of the canal. Just west of Athens, the canal was opened in 1893, and serves as a shortcut for vessels going…