Underground Tunnel Beneath Niagara Falls
A very interesting first-person account of one man’s experience underneath Niagara Falls, where he explores the remains of a 100-year-old attempt to capture the hydroelectric power of The Falls. Accompanied by spectacular pictures of the tunnel itself, even more fascinating is the writer’s description of the experience:
“Lying below a river that will relentlessly tear into the bedrock until all has been obliterated from Queenston to Erie, this tunnel thirty-three feet in diameter is imprinted into my being forever. A swirling army of red brick millions strong, the eye of a petrified hurricane leading us right into the centre of the stalled but fighting storm that is Niagara Falls. Standing in its back-blast, in a place far deeper and darker than any middling storm sewer, I breathed and drank from the fount of the universe and swam closer to its centre than I ever will again.”