Passing Through Suez Canal

It took 8 hours from the time we left the Red Sea to pass through the Suez Canal and into the Mediterranean.


Here is a trivia question for you: HOW MANY LOCKS MAKE UP THE SUEZ CANAL?

We joined the northbound convoy and were led by another cruise ship. Freighters followed. There is a large lake in the south where ships wait for a convoy to be formed and then join in.

Ships coming south pull over and park at a specific time to let the northbound pass by.
There are zero, no locks on the Suez Canal.

The Captain identified the military ship as US Navy but I can't find a flag or name anywhere on it but the amount of visible communications tools you can see on it probably acounts for it's anonimity. The ship was going the opposite way and it was moving to the front of the southbound convoy as military gets first position in any convoy.

We cleared the Friendship Bridge, which connects Egypt with the Sinai Desert and the rest of the middle east, by 10 feet.

We had heard that there was some shooting from land at some ship a few weeks ago and that might account for the presence of soldiers in lonely outposts all along the canal.