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Lesson on French forest lake: How not to get stuck in the Suez Canal

A replica in the middle of a French forest was built to train ship captains and maritime pilots how to navigate the Suez Canal

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Francois Mayor nudged back on the power and made a subtle adjustment on the wheel as he coaxed his cargo vessel through a narrow point in the Suez Canal — not the Egyptian one, but a replica in the middle of a French forest.
 
This stretch of water was built to train ship captains and maritime pilots how to navigate the Suez Canal — a skill now in the spotlight after the Ever Given cargo ship got wedged in the Egyptian waterway last month in high winds and a sandstorm.
 
The channel is built to one twenty-fifth the