Princess Cruise Lines offers a very cool service to users of the Internet. On their web page they list web cams that are shot from the bridge of their cruise ships. The web site is updated every 2 minutes so you can get an idea of where the ship is an what kind of weather the ship is encountering. I decided to capture an entire cruise and chose the December 23rd sailing of the Coral Princess which was scheduled to go through the Panama Canal. I downloaded some software to my Mac that would capture just a small window of my web browser and save a JPG file every 2 minutes. At the end, I brought the thousands of images all together as a movie via Quicktime Pro which is what you see here.
There are some gaps in the video as a few times I lost internet connectivity and I had to trim out the dead space, but the trip through the canal itself was flawless. I left the night time sequence in the movie as it allows you to see the cycles of day and night. You can also see lights from other cruise ships at times in the distance.
See if you can find the rainbow in one of the sequences.
Enjoy the cruise. Check out http://www.princess.com/bridgecams/ for other live bridge camera shots form Princess Cruises.
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