The underwater tunnel development team consists of Moroccan-Spanish engineers with the assistance of Japanese experts for doing the feasibility study. Morocco - The ferryboats glide out of the port, their deep horns like percussion for the prayer calls from the mosque. As night falls, you can see dimly through the haze the lights from the coast of Spain twinkling with the allure of the wealth that lies on the other side of the waters. As far as many Moroccans are concerned, there but for fortune they would be living in Europe. It was only an accident of geology that opened up the rift, eight miles wide at its narrowest, known as the Strait of Gibraltar.
Myth has it that Hercules wrenched apart the continents.
Today, the Moroccan government is hoping to fix what nature got wrong. It is a futurist, almost utopian project that its promoters say would equal the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal in its geopolitical implications. It would be a revolution that would radically transform the entire infrastructure of the region. Hard at work studying the feasibility of such a tunnel are teams of Moroccan and Spanish engineers, assisted by Japanese experts in underwater tunnel-building. They have excavated three exploratory tunnels - one just east of Tangier on the Moroccan coast and two near the Spanish town of Tarifa.