The famous rusted shipwreck that has been teetering above Ontario’s Niagara Falls since 1918 is now closer to the brink.

The Niagara Scow (also known as the Iron Scow or Old Scow) has been lodged just above the Canadian Horseshoe Falls for 107 years after breaking free from a tugboat and grounding in rapids during a rescue mission to save its two occupants.

Occupants of the scow were ultimately saved just 766 metres shy of the edge and certain death, and the scow remained in its precarious position for just over a century.

However, after decades of rust eating away at the boat, combined with the battering of the Upper Niagara River, the scow has been gradually shifting and breaking apart since 2019 .

And the scow shifted again last week, bringing the longstanding landmark closer to i

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