While we were at the Dam, we could see down to see 5-stage ship locks, we are now sailing through these locks. To explain, a lock is a device that raises or lowers boats between stretches of water of different levels on the river. Since the installation of the ship locks, shipping through the Three Gorges become much safer, which changed the fact that the gorges were notoriously dangerous to navigate. Each of the two ship locks is made up of five stages, taking around four hours in total to transit, and has a vessel capacity of 10,000 tons.
James and I would run through the ship to get photos from the front and the back as we sailed through the locks. It was a slow process and we sat around and waited for most of the trip.
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