As part of an crew assigned to crew to observe the filling of the Mediterranean from the Atlantic in the late Micene, Patrolman Tom Nomura breaks the rules to use time travel to rescue Feliz a Rach when she’s swept over the falls.
Michael Main
The Mediterranean floor lay ten thousand feet below sea level. The inflow took most of that drop within a fifty-mile strait. Its volume amounted to ten thousand cubic miles a year, a hundred Victoria Falls or a thousand Niagaras.

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  1. “Gibraltar Falls” by Poul Anderson, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1975.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Poul Anderson