The length of the canal is about 3.5 miles (~ 6km), so our entertainment for the night, lasted 30 to 40 minutes. Our green ship was carefully passing in a 25m canal width, and this is a very tight space to navigate in. A pilot came on board of our ship, to navigate it through, (night pilotage is compulsory for all ships). I'm not exactly sure where the best seating place was to watch our journey and have the best angle;

-either on our monkey island (which is the deck over the bridge), where you get a top view;

-or on the deck-bridge in the center, where the movie has a symmetrical composition;

-or on the sides of the deck, where you feel the adrenaline rushing through your veins, every time the ship swings closer to the edge. I can't remember the amount of times I held my breath to the thought of a potential crash. But I guess, it is just my personal perception (after all, it was my first time crossing a canal). The reflection of the amber coloured sodium vapour lights, which were crossing at intervals of around 100m, made the whole experience more agreeable and colorful. Passing through this cutting of the land, the form and hight of the rocks on both our sides were changing as we were advancing. This one-shot movie didn't fail to capture our interest.

Corinth canal offers the shortest route, as against rounding the S extremity of Greece, for traffic from ports in the Adriatic Sea, Ioanian Sea and Italy to the Aegean and Black Sea ports or vice versa. It was reported (in 2001) that about 12000 vessels use the canal annually averaging about 33 a day.

Our Movie night was over and our director (pilot) left the scene as soon as we reached the terminal harbour. This is when our reviews and comments started filling up the space of sound.

(Reference to all measures and statistics: Admirality Sailing Directions, Mediterranean Pilot, Volume III)