It will be the largest dam in the world, as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge
and twice as tall, with 18 gigawatts of power. I could write a long time
on the dam, and will later. There are many other essays about it.
You can't get the scope of it there. For one, the air is incredibly hazy at
all times. I did massive haze elimination and in some cases went to B&W.
There is another dam on the river, also shown here, which is 130 feet tall
and is downstream of the 3 gorges site.
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Children play in a garden of cherry blossoms next to the dam visitor center
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We cruise through the channel past the dam. Find something small in the picture to get the scale of it.
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Shot from the ship looking down the dam. Heavy pollution removal
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Shot of the whole dam from the river. Sorry about colour
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The dam from the side. Looked better in black and white, like an old 19th century industrial photo
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A bicycle makes it through the locks at the first dam
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Approaching the locks
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Our ship is built to just fit through the locks
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Now the water will start to rise.
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The locks open at the top
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The five-level locks under construction at 3 Gorges. It will take 3 hours to pass
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Visitor tower, from where I shot the panoramas of the dam
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A shot of the 5-stage ship locks, so you can see why it will take 3 hours to pass. You can't make a lock 600 feet high, so they have 5 of them.
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