| 1 | Ships pass through a series of locks. | |
| 2 | The existing locks are three hundred five meters long and thirty-three meters wide. | |
| 3 | Engineers could not make the new locks too big. | |
| 4 | The new locks are set to open in twenty fourteen, the one hundredth anniversary of the Panama Canal. | |
| 5 | These locks raise a ship to the level of Gatun Lake at the canal entrance on the Atlantic side. |