Ben Brockert

UK had a second canal breach of the year. Their canal network is huge; it was a predecessor to rail, with aqueducts and tunnels and many places where it's a lot more than just a strip of ground dug out. There's little industrial use of it now, but people live on 7 foot wide, 70 feet long steel boats full-time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2lvq0yk9dko

Because 2025, there were at least two YouTubers close by when it happened, https://youtu.be/6FuNqijdUDM?t=487 and https://youtu.be/X4DGXAPE_lA?t=374

Dec 22 at 5:33pmWeb
Show threadBen BrockertDec 22

Would be interesting to see if any ground movement is detectable by space-based synthetic aperture radar.

One of the commercial SAR companies had a sales strategy that I never understood, of only selling raw data. The real value is the analysis and not everyone knows how to do that; sell a subscription to owners of infrastructure where they get a phone call if ground movement is detected.

Show threadBen BrockertDec 24

Some quite good drone footage of the morning after the breach, accompanied by AI canal filk music.

I bought an expensive drone that I flew lamely and yet still spent most of its time broken, this is much harder than it looks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQX6riu1Vg

“Whitchurch Canal Breach | In-Depth Drone Footage (Latest Update)”

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