At sea Day 15.  Lunch of oxtail stew. Bones. Raspberry sherbert and coconut ice cream cone. Tomorrow we arrive in Panama City, and on day 17 transit the Panama Canal.  So we went to the Theater to watch a 56-minute documentary released in 1987:    A Man, A Plan A Canal, Panama , a Nova program. While the French started this all in the 1880's, they failed for being too early.  The technology and science were on the verge of being being developed. When President Teddy Roosevelt became president in 1901, he took on this effort as his main crusade. The  Panama Canal made the U.S. a world power . Certainly, it is in the  top ten of all construction projects , along with the Great Pyramids of Ghiza, Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, Taj Mahal, Hoover Dam and Eiffel Tower. The Story of the Panama Canal. What is it? 51-mile waterway in Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, Locks lift ships up to Gatun Lake, the  largest man-made lake, 85 feet above sea level. 52 million ga