Ghosts live in this lock! At least that's what seamen say. Big ships can't be moored steadily here, they move all the time, and if the lock-keeper don't fill the lock slowly the ships will bump into the gates.
There is a physical explanation for this of course, and hearsay states that it depends on the fact that the lock is built with right angles between the walls and the bottom.
Believe it or not!
Fredrik Lundström, deck man on Rederi AB Göta Kanal's ships in 1999 and 2000.
Mariehov mansion close to the lock | Entering the lock | Entering the lock |
© Pictures by Bosse Arnholm, 2004
During lockage | Lock-keeper's house | During lockage |
© Pictures by Bosse Arnholm, 2004
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