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Canal & Port Authorities don't offer the same volume of work as truck driving jobs,
CDL jobs, bus and train operator with trucking companies. The work can be different
from other technical and vocational careers. See St. Lawrence Seaway jobs .
When a canal bridge goes down instead of up... Welland Canal Accident shows
frightening footage of a drawbridge accident. It happened not too far from area
pictured below, near the St. Catharines Skyway Bridge. Luckily, no one was killed in
the terrifying accident.
Observation Station St. Lawrence Seaway
The John B. Aird on the Welland Canal,
not too far from the terrifying accident
involving a drawbridge and ship back in
2001. Luckily, no one was injured or
killed. You can click the link above to see
that the job of bridge operator requires
attention, concentration and alertness to
vessel traffic.
The heart of canal operations engineering... raising and lowering water levels by mechanical
pumps and gravity. This animation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers illustrates how water
in managed and applies to the technical elements of almost all canal operations.