A photo from overhead, as described in the post, of a section of the Llangollen canal in Shropshire. On the right, the canal's raised earthen embankment—which usually contains it—has failed and was washed away by the water of the now-drained canal. The flushing water has formed a huge hole over 30 meters (100 feet) long and likely about 6 meters (20 feet) deep. Of the 4 narrowboats in the photo, one is relatively safe, sitting on the bottom of the drained canal, clear of the hole by 15 meters (50 feet). Two other narrowboats have been washed into the hole by the rush of draining water; one of these is partially submerged in mid. A third boat is teetering over the other edge of the hole. Each boat weighs about 15 tonnes. Both sides of the canal are green. By the hole, both towpaths have washed away as well. The branches of an enormous tree (an oak?), which still has some of its leaves, blocks the view of the oale grey-green water in the field below the drained canal.