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.
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.
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UncleArthur@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 247d
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 1 pts · 246d
That was fast.
exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 246d
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.
grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 246d
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.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 246d
Scary stuff...
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 246d
Infrastructure spike of the early industrialisation biting it's tail
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 246d
The dog barking in the video probably digged the hole and is pissed they put a boat in it!