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What lies below

It seems incredible, but every weekend hundreds of boaties on North America’s Great Lakes drive right over people, and often at wide-open throttle.

Think I’m kidding? I’m really not. And it’s not just people – boaties plow full-throttle right over trucks, front-end loaders and all manner of construction equipment too. And most of them have absolutely no idea they’re even doing it.

Sounds fantastic? It is – and testament to the fact that truth is often stranger than fiction. That’s because all the people and vehicles that these boats drive over are actually located hundreds of metres underground in a series of salt mines that tunnel far beneath the lakes.

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