/holds up glass
//clink! clink!
///pours whiskey

Thanks a lot, Al

A broken leg? From one of the flying ice balls I suppose, because the ship barely moved.

Obviously this is the fault of GLOBAL WARMING.

If only we all drove Priuses, used only solar, geothermal, and wind energy to power our homes and lifestyles we wouldn't have had to witness the death of one of nature's most beautiful designs.

Gaia weeps.

/end sarcasm

It always amazes me how glacier ice like this is airplane lavatory blue instead of white, like you'd usually expect.

Went on a small ship cruise and would have loved to see something like this. The captain is supposed to stay .25 miles from the glacier and bow facing the glacier.

Last glacier we visited we climbed


/Franz Josef Glacier, NZ

Di Atribe: To be fair, she also said "Danger! Danger! Danger!"

Sounded more like "Deenjer deenjer deenjer" to me.

i've seen much more impressive collapses - Wait for it... (new window)

and there are others but i am too lazy to find them

Danger! Danger! Danger!

I don't know about you, but I would immediately deny global warming.

Is that iceberg made out of airline toilet water or something? That color looks like it comes from a 2000 flushes pack.

"Holy Falling Ice, Batman!", would be my immediate exclamation. To be honest.


That not-from-toilet blue ice is very pretty.

Reminds me of a (fictional) story I once read about the coldest of compressed ice that didn't thaw normally and was turned into weapons ^_^.
Closest real life parallel to that would be Pykrete, a truly awesome substance of sawdust and ice that is very slow to melt.

Skr: "Holy Falling Ice, Batman!", would be my immediate exclamation. To be honest.


That not-from-toilet blue ice is very pretty.

Reminds me of a (fictional) story I once read about the coldest of compressed ice that didn't thaw normally and was turned into weapons ^_^.
Closest real life parallel to that would be Pykrete, a truly awesome substance of sawdust and ice that is very slow to melt.

Heck, you can even make a boat out of it.

\Mythbusters

Ok go watch it again, but when it starts to fall, imagine Reed Timmer from Storm Chasers screaming

"BACK UP! BACK UP! BACK UP!"

Any word on if there were any High Voltage power lines in the area?

What do you do when a glacier collapses in front of you a half mile away? Scream "holy crap" of course

FTFY tardmitter

Xai: i've seen much more impressive collapses - Wait for it... (new window)

and there are others but i am too lazy to find them

That was cool. Reminds me of this guy I met whose brand new bush plane got crushed by something like that because he was dumb enough to park it too close.

Precrushed plane (new window)

Any closer and they would have been pining for the fjords.

Ambitwistor: Any closer and they would have been pining for the fjords.

Pining for the fjords ?!!?!?!? what kind of talk is that !?!?!

look m'lad !! I know a broken glacier when I see one .... and when I went by not 'alf an hour ago !! you assured me that it's total lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out from a long melt !!

Ah, nature. A boatload of tourists meets up with Darwin's law. This time the tourists win out. Are we ready for a next time?

I didn't know Alaska had fjords. There, I said it.

I really like the blue color of the freshly exposed internal ice

I guess you Global Warming deniers are feeling pretty stupid about now, eh? This kind of thing didn't happen before man came along and farked up the environment.

I cracked up multiple times between the guy that yelled, seeing a huge piece of Ice coming straight towards them and then a "Oh chit" (0:08-0:10)
and the danger, danger, danger.

Holy crap was just filler.

tereklusec: I didn't know Alaska had fjords. There, I said it.

I think they mostly drive Chevys but I imagine there are probably some Fords.

Glaciers suck

AverageAmericanGuy: It always amazes me how glacier ice like this is airplane lavatory blue instead of white, like you'd usually expect.

Really? FYI, it is blue from reflection, not because the ice is blue...

They don't call it the "Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness" for nothing!

Thanks to the Neocon-Hummer Boating Safety Act, soon there will be no glaciers to threaten anyone.

oukewldave: AverageAmericanGuy: It always amazes me how glacier ice like this is airplane lavatory blue instead of white, like you'd usually expect.

Really? FYI, it is blue from reflection, not because the ice is blue...

Not sure what you're implying, but the colour(s) of light reflected by anything is what makes it that particular colour. Unless you are trying to say its reflecting the water/sky to look blue?...

Too bad they weren't in Lituya Bay on July 9, 1958, they would have had a real ride....

boobsrgood: Thanks to the Neocon-Hummer Boating Safety Act, soon there will be no glaciers to threaten anyone.

If guns are outlawed, only glaciers will have guns.

Injured? She should put some ice on it.

boobsrgood: Thanks to the Neocon-Hummer Boating Safety Act, soon there will be no glaciers to threaten anyone.

You knew it was coming after anthropomorphic global warming ended the ice age.

shogun: oukewldave: AverageAmericanGuy: It always amazes me how glacier ice like this is airplane lavatory blue instead of white, like you'd usually expect.

Really? FYI, it is blue from reflection, not because the ice is blue...

Not sure what you're implying, but the colour(s) color of light reflected by anything is what makes it that particular colour color. Unless you are trying to say its reflecting the water/sky to look blue?... Fixed that for you. If you are going to type on an American website, type American.

gerbilpox: If guns are outlawed, only glaciers will have guns.

That's not a glacier. That's a gelatenous cube.

Airfoilsguy: Xai: i've seen much more impressive collapses - Wait for it... (new window)

and there are others but i am too lazy to find them

That was cool. Reminds me of this guy I met whose brand new bush plane got crushed by something like that because he was dumb enough to park it too close.

Precrushed plane (new window)

I want those seconds back please

The glacier calving happens pretty frequently. When I was up there in June, it was every 10 minutes or so a major chunk would break off; and by major, I mean 6 story building sorta size. As others have said, the noise of it all was the most interesting. Here's a couple snaps I shot of the area:



This was roughly the size of a house.


Calving


It's a very interesting place to visit.

One female passenger on board the vessel is believed to have broken her leg after being thrown to the deck.

Then she got up on one leg and sued the captain, the business, the investors of the business, and everyone on the damn boat for failing to protect her broken leg.

wbudnick: One female passenger on board the vessel is believed to have broken her leg after being thrown to the deck.

Then she got up on one leg and sued the captain, the business, the investors of the business, and everyone on the damn boat for failing to protect her broken leg.

Don't be stupid, it happened in Antarctica, not in America

LewDux: Don't be stupid, it happened in Antarctica, not in America

You may want to re-read the article there champ.

FTA: "from their boat at the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Alaska."

MrSteve007: LewDux: Don't be stupid, it happened in Antarctica, not in America

You may want to re-read the article there champ.

FTA: "from their boat at the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, Alaska."

Looking at Google Maps it seems that a large proportion of the glacier(s) flows down from across the Canadian border, maybe she should sue Canada for supplying the ice too?