That was fast.
Took me a minute to understand what I am looking at. My brain said “the boats were derailed” and that was a little too strange to be possible.
I mean, you’re not that far off. Those old canals really are kinda like watery railroads, in terms of being designed for narrow cargo-carrying vehicles that can’t go up hills easily.
Scary stuff…
The incident on a stretch of the Llangollen Canal in Whitchurch has been blamed by engineers on an “embankment failure”, with its collapse causing water to rush into a nearby field - and the canal bottom to fall away, leaving a trench.
Two narrowboats were said to have sunk into the hole shortly after 04:00 GMT, with one witness estimating it to be 15ft (four metres) deep.
Infrastructure spike of the early industrialisation biting it’s tail
The dog barking in the video probably digged the hole and is pissed they put a boat in it!
