Stranded narrow boats refloated after Shropshire canal breach

Evening Standard

A narrow boat left high and dry by a pre-Christmas canal bank collapse has been successfully refloated by waterways engineers.The stern of the Pacemaker was left hanging precariously over a 50-metre-long “sinkhole” in Whitchurch, Shropshire, three weeks ago, after an incident its owner likened to being caught in a waterfall.

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00:00What is that?

00:02Are they separate?

00:04Yeah.

00:06I like it.

00:08Yeah, a little bit of heat.

00:10That's right.

00:22It's down there, so remember, but if it starts, see what else.

00:24If you see, we can guess what anywhere we'll just lock it.

00:30I don't think I'll ever forget it. It was about five past four in the morning.

00:36Enormous noise rushing outside of the window of the boat.

00:39Looked outside and thought I'd landed at Niagara Falls.

00:42I've never seen so much water flowing past.

00:44Looked out the stern of the boat, the back of the boat,

00:46just to see an enormous gaping hole there,

00:48with the boat already sliding down into the void.

00:52Quickly back through the boat, get my wife and my son off the boat.

00:56Quickly back on the boat to get the other two cats as well.

00:59Just watch boats fall into a hole and sit there waiting for mine to go down as well.

01:05I'll see you next time.

01:07We'll see you next time.

01:09Let's go.

01:11Let's go.

01:13You

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