Diane Snider Photos

Working the lines on ships transiting the Panama Canal has traditionally been a job for men. However, in China women often take on such work. Here you'll notice a woman crew member (or possibly wife of the ship's owner as is often the case) readying her line as her vessel positions itself behind two others directly ahead in place at the lower depths of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. In this particular case, six ships, two abreast, were all raised at the same time up the incredibly smooth and swift lock system of this newly built great and controversial dam, portions of which are still under construction.