Iceberg A23a - Drone footage of the largest iceberg on earth, eroding in the Southern Ocean.

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  • čas přidán 16. 01. 2024
  • The enormous tabular iceberg A23a is currently drifting north from Antarctica. Here is raw footage from our encounter in the Southern Ocean.
    This tabular iceberg is nearly 4000km2, is up to 400m thick and weighs just short of 1 trillion tonnes. It is 40 nautical miles long and twice the size of greater London. Simply massive!
    © 2024 Ian Strachan & Richard Sidey. All Rights Reserved.
    All footage can be provided in 4K.
    Contact via www.richardsidey.com for licensing enquiries.
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Komentáře • 135

  • @KimRinehart
    @KimRinehart Před 3 měsíci +27

    I found this absolutely majestic yet frightening!!! The juxtaposition of the blue against the deep dark salt water gave me goosebumps. What a fantastic job you have done capturing this!!!

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci +4

      Thank you.

    • @bcbeasters
      @bcbeasters Před 3 měsíci

      @@richardsidey If you were able to fly under some of those arches maybe you could get Red Bull to sponsor you! 😎👍

    • @bcbeasters
      @bcbeasters Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@richardsidey I think a ton of people would tune into watching drones doing risky close-range maneuvers around icebergs as a sport competition... I know I would, it would be wicked cool! 😏

    • @bcbeasters
      @bcbeasters Před 3 měsíci

      @@richardsidey It could also be an awesome way to raise awareness of the melting polar caps... 🥺

  • @pinkyhandle
    @pinkyhandle Před 4 měsíci +12

    What a majestic sight!, the technology to capture something like this id extraordinary !. Thanks for all you do 😊

  • @chaz5229
    @chaz5229 Před 3 měsíci +8

    The ice UNDER the water is beautiful, fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Watching this made me cold....BRRRRRRRRRR!!! Freezy Pop anyone?!

  • @bluestarshipace9530
    @bluestarshipace9530 Před 2 měsíci +2

    You are lucky. The day I was there was so overcast and foggy I could barely see any color. Thank you for this clear video.

  • @user-hp8it3mm6p
    @user-hp8it3mm6p Před 4 měsíci +11

    Richard you should contact a musician called E-Mantra and ask for his permission to use his "Silence II" album on one of your next videos. He's based in Romania and also has some beautiful drone shots of the Romanian wilderness.

  • @suckered4diecast
    @suckered4diecast Před 3 měsíci +9

    That's some spectacular video! thanks for sharing

  • @cchawk6280
    @cchawk6280 Před 3 měsíci +4

    I’d love to see a drone fly over the surface to see what is in the other side of this. If it broke off there has to be another side. Curioser and Curioser. Not sure I spelled that correctly 😊

  • @GBlunted
    @GBlunted Před 3 měsíci +7

    I wanna see what the iceberg looks like under the water!! I bet that it looks pretty freaking 🆒! 😎

  • @MTerrance
    @MTerrance Před 4 měsíci +10

    I keep hoping for something to come sailing out of those ice caves - say a Viking ship or a WWII era submarine...

  • @jmas2312
    @jmas2312 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Absolutely spectacular.

  • @mysavescgf2640
    @mysavescgf2640 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Wow-amazing footage!

  • @jasonnieuwenhuis7995
    @jasonnieuwenhuis7995 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Really amazing! So fascinating!

  • @_YourHigherSelf
    @_YourHigherSelf Před 3 měsíci

    awesome! we need more footage like this of that beautiful spot of the world.

  • @GRogers61
    @GRogers61 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Was this video taken from the Sapphire Princess and if so where can I see the other videos you took during that cruise? I was on that cruise, what a fantastic experience!

  • @wayneamills4867
    @wayneamills4867 Před 3 měsíci

    I was there on the 20/01/24 with Chimu on the Ocean Endeavour. Simply awesome to sea. Who were you with?

  • @rui569
    @rui569 Před 3 měsíci +1

    You should get a 4K camera.

  • @user-zg8ke5bn1f
    @user-zg8ke5bn1f Před 4 měsíci +6

    Can you imagine how many cocktails you could add ice to, mmmm tastey treat !

    • @ghostsauce1443
      @ghostsauce1443 Před 3 měsíci

      To salty 🧂
      Lol

    • @bec7839
      @bec7839 Před 3 měsíci

      actually it has been proven "ice worms" live in the ice.

  • @KenshinPhoenix
    @KenshinPhoenix Před 3 měsíci

    Prime real estate, cool breezes with an ocean view!

  • @LotsofStuffYT
    @LotsofStuffYT Před 4 měsíci +4

    It's the size that matters.

  • @frank4731
    @frank4731 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Daaang! Now that's creepy cool!!

  • @MARYANNE269
    @MARYANNE269 Před 4 měsíci +3

    This is fascinating and worrying at the same time.. to witness such a sight... The inhabited low level islands are going to suffer first.. 😢

    • @curlyrooster118
      @curlyrooster118 Před 3 měsíci

      From what?

    • @carolined5923
      @carolined5923 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Theres a video here on CZcams from 6 years ago mamoth iceberg dwarfs Canadian town.. its nothing new.. more worrying is the plastic waste in the ocean its not natural.

    • @pieterdeboer5361
      @pieterdeboer5361 Před 3 měsíci

      With no ice cooling down the planet, it surly get hott on this planet. With that said it will sure rain a lot more due climit chance. And all that extra water there no way to get rid off.

  • @edineiherciliodias7007
    @edineiherciliodias7007 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Fantástico 🇧🇷🇧🇷❤

  • @nordsun
    @nordsun Před 4 měsíci +3

    The blue colour right in front the ice is amazing! Does anybody know what gives the water its blue colour?

    • @clentistwoud
      @clentistwoud Před 4 měsíci

      Water IS blue

    • @sohanyadav1978
      @sohanyadav1978 Před 4 měsíci

      Its underwater part of iceberg if you see carefully.

    • @loragunning5394
      @loragunning5394 Před 3 měsíci

      water is not blue, it's clear but appears to be blue from the sky reflecting in it. @@clentistwoud

    • @cheriesnakedancer3293
      @cheriesnakedancer3293 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@clentistwoud no, it's not!The blue is the reflection of the blue sky.

    • @courtneykinney4686
      @courtneykinney4686 Před 3 měsíci +2

      Blue is a longer wavelength of light, one of the last to be lost in water, so it's blue that we see reflected back.

  • @bec7839
    @bec7839 Před 3 měsíci

    what is the actual height and how deep does it go??
    How long will it take to melt down all way I wonder.

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci

      All your answers are here www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67986443

  • @jordifontsartus6496
    @jordifontsartus6496 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Que maco l'iceberg!! 👏👏🏼

  • @user-qc9fl3ff8b
    @user-qc9fl3ff8b Před 3 měsíci

    Wow!..Humans were never meant to see this….Transfixing and foreboding yet beautiful…Brain is in vexed mode…

  • @ir5047
    @ir5047 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I found in study this two time bigger than greater Landon 😨

  • @bertus161057
    @bertus161057 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Beautiful and scary

  • @yk-mp7bk
    @yk-mp7bk Před 2 měsíci +1

    It's not a thing to be happy about.
    It's catastrophic!

  • @T.Sumpter
    @T.Sumpter Před 3 měsíci

    Wonder what's frozen beneath all that ice 🤔. There has to be at least 1 great find!

  • @unboxingt8445
    @unboxingt8445 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Umm imagine what could be frozen in there… a block of ice bigger than RI from 1,000s of years ago. I have a felling this will be a big topic in the coming years 😬🤐

  • @ThomasS-jf9kf
    @ThomasS-jf9kf Před 3 měsíci

    It would be nice if an adult person could stand near the edge of the ice, just to get a sense of scale. It's hard to gauge the height of the glacier above water.

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yep it would help. We gauged it to be around 30-40 metres above the surface and scientists say 400m thick at the deepest point.

  • @societydwellingifd8080
    @societydwellingifd8080 Před 3 měsíci +1

    *_why don't they ever fly over the whole thing to show us whats on the other side of it?!?_*

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci

      Because it’s 20 - 40 nautical miles wide and way out of reach of a Mavic drone. Easier to sail around the iceberg, and it looks more-or-less the same all the way around.

  • @NaveenKumar-sx8fw
    @NaveenKumar-sx8fw Před 3 měsíci

    Sir one ? why antartica is covered with iceberg total antartica land ? Some type of technology forming iceberg ☃️

  • @smithjohn647
    @smithjohn647 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Next, when all that mass becomes liquid and adds to the surf and tidal surges what will become of the coastal homes? How will the gravity of the moon be affected when all that liquid mass reaches the equator? The closer a23a floats to the equator the faster it will melt, the faster it melts the more water the moons gravity will have to pull, then what? Will the high tides rise even more and people not allowed to swim during certain points of the day and night? Will the swells in the ocean become too great for ships to travers? Why cant we see what is happening to the sub surface of the iceberg?

    • @clentistwoud
      @clentistwoud Před 4 měsíci +2

      Nothing. 90% of that mass is already in the water, so nothing will change.

    • @chrisdekock8864
      @chrisdekock8864 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Dude, the temp will shift in the local area, eg if it couldve come to the Bahamas quickly, change the ocean gyres, but the water displacement will not affect any shoreline

  • @stevenherrold5955
    @stevenherrold5955 Před 3 měsíci

    THAT IS ONE BIG ICE CUBE only 1 10'th of total mass above the surface of the water

  • @societydwellingifd8080
    @societydwellingifd8080 Před 3 měsíci

    *_I WANT TO VISIT THAT PLACE SO BAD JUST TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT CUZ THERES SO MANY PICS AND VIDS THAT MAKE IT HARD TO BELIEVE ITS REAL._*

  • @MM180.9
    @MM180.9 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Superman where are you 😢

  • @Sandi.-wl6hz
    @Sandi.-wl6hz Před 3 měsíci

    Looks like some kinda of pattern under it

  • @markissboi3583
    @markissboi3583 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Australia claims ownership of more than 42 per cent of the Antarctic continent,
    hope it drifts right to vic its dam hot this week 37cel + +

    • @eat_ze_bugs
      @eat_ze_bugs Před 3 měsíci

      More real estate for investors.

  • @robbmaier368
    @robbmaier368 Před 3 měsíci

    If it was a problem we would have seen more on this

  • @lilihillis1449
    @lilihillis1449 Před 4 měsíci +21

    There's enough water in this berg to rise global sea level 3ft...Thwaits Glacier ice shelf is bigger holding another 6ft...it also breaking off Now too....move from any coast.

    • @clentistwoud
      @clentistwoud Před 4 měsíci +23

      Nope. It’s already in the water so the mass has already been displaced. When this iceberg fully melts, nothing will change.

    • @kylecrockett8096
      @kylecrockett8096 Před 4 měsíci +5

      You're not thinking about how big the ocean is buddy

    • @ivandagr857
      @ivandagr857 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@clentistwoudwhat about the ice above the surface not displacing the water?

    • @jefferyharris4066
      @jefferyharris4066 Před 3 měsíci +5

      🐕💚🍕 dogs like pizza 🤠 I want to camp out there and explore 🤔 get some dogs and pizza and beer 🍺 yeah...

    • @ssswiiing
      @ssswiiing Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@clentistwoudthe ice floating on top?

  • @user-og9lg9fk6i
    @user-og9lg9fk6i Před 3 měsíci +1

    Only one side b shown,really

  • @chrisriggio3750
    @chrisriggio3750 Před 4 měsíci +1

    will this cause the movie the day after tomorrow to become a reality since all that fresh water could desal the ocean enough to disrupt the warm currents that flow through the oceans?????

    • @whiteofsoul
      @whiteofsoul Před 4 měsíci +1

      The climate will change, but not as dramatically as shown in the film. Processes are slow by human standards. Maybe we will see large floods of land in old age.

  • @adamrose6194
    @adamrose6194 Před 3 měsíci

    Only way we can stop the melting is more taxes

  • @GX-th8is
    @GX-th8is Před 3 měsíci

    💁‍♂️ Is it capable of craving through an island? How do ships, boats and tankers intended on manuvering it? 🛳️🤷‍♂️🤔🧐

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Just go around it. It’s ‘only’ 40NM wide.

    • @GX-th8is
      @GX-th8is Před 3 měsíci

      @@richardsidey 🤣👍

  • @stevenn7188
    @stevenn7188 Před 3 měsíci

    something in there

  • @j.jarvis7460
    @j.jarvis7460 Před 3 měsíci

    the vastness has a similar vibe to an empty Minecraft server. 0:51

  • @user-pt8pd7ig2h
    @user-pt8pd7ig2h Před 3 měsíci

    Can couse of gigh lovel of water in to the ocean bacame so dangerous

  • @eduardocontreras7115
    @eduardocontreras7115 Před 3 měsíci

    It's coming to USA in the summer by the of Christmas it will be here

  • @doveletters1
    @doveletters1 Před 4 měsíci

    It's there life on it?

  • @Muddslinger0415
    @Muddslinger0415 Před 9 dny +1

    We are so fucked 3degree Celsius by 2040 6degree Celsius by 2100 extinction of all mammals

  • @zibbie
    @zibbie Před 3 měsíci

    Isn't it possible to get the drone higher, for a birds view out of the sky? Maybe a person can see what is going on on that ice. Do they know how deep it goes under water

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci +1

      Large icebergs can create their own weather and often have fog over them, which we encountered this day. So any higher and the drone would go into the fog and see nothing.

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci

      Average depth is about 280m with max depth of 400m at one end.

  • @russellking9762
    @russellking9762 Před 3 měsíci

    under the law of salvage...(i'm probably wrong) couldn't someone attach a rope to this and claim it as theirs?....

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci

      Actually Australia did a feasibility study of towing an iceberg for freshwater use a decade ago - figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Iceberg_water_transportation_from_Antarctica_to_Australia/23206868

    • @russellking9762
      @russellking9762 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@richardsidey Actually i'm from L.J Hooker and wanted to sell it as real estate

  • @cosstaylitt7012
    @cosstaylitt7012 Před 3 měsíci

    It surrounds the earth its the ice wall

  • @hellsbells6323
    @hellsbells6323 Před 3 měsíci

    White cliffs of dover.

  • @bhekulwandlempofu4545
    @bhekulwandlempofu4545 Před 3 měsíci

    Alien on the move, be careful with this, it's actually heading for disaster

  • @yzuaY
    @yzuaY Před 2 měsíci

    saw this iceberg on the ISS video stream and looked for it in NASA's weather images. It's gigantic 59°30'39"S, 47°50'42"W czcams.com/video/gI-MGGlfVjQ/video.html

  • @antoinettesepulveda811
    @antoinettesepulveda811 Před 4 měsíci

    Wow,That is crazy..😮❤😊

  • @jamesharris4432
    @jamesharris4432 Před 3 měsíci

    When the ice caps melted back we had bigger im sure there may have been bigger ! But no one was around to see them , the ones that were just couldn’t write down “ look at the size of that iceberg” 🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe Gods going to float it down to block Putins ports 😂

    • @richardsidey
      @richardsidey  Před 3 měsíci

      Iceberg B15 which broke off in 2002 was far larger than this one.

  • @creativitycell
    @creativitycell Před 3 měsíci

    Yep, when that all melts 1000s of islands are gonna dissappear, and we get more social media vids of dumb peoples houses on cliff edges crumblig into the sea n rivers that just overflowed during a flash flood next year! 😂

  • @alphaomega154
    @alphaomega154 Před 3 měsíci

    talk about ice, i have a simple method to discern intellectual humans with those who arent. by their notion of what symbolize "ice". the unintellectuals will liken ice to "winter". of course the intellectual ones KNOW that ice has nothing to do with seasons. in some region of the planet, ice is all spring and summer. and blizzards could happens in summer. also the structural shape of a frozen snowflake. the unintellectuals will relate the hexagonal sapes with the symbol of winter. while the intellectuals again KNOW it is just the pattern of a frozen liquid. of any kind. its the most basic energy radiation pattern from an atom. even carbons exhibits the same shape. this is just a simple method to measure how many people in the world that are actually intellect. and do you know, that winter in some region of the planet could means DRY DROUGHT? my ice is no winter ice.

  • @eduardocontreras7115
    @eduardocontreras7115 Před 3 měsíci

    I see all people talk really dumb but this is reality and it's very scary of wat is goin to happen to our planet keep talking dumb but the truth that awaits us disaster

  • @ayxanaliyev6554
    @ayxanaliyev6554 Před 4 měsíci +1

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    🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿AZERBAYCAN 🖐🤝

  • @ayxanaliyev6554
    @ayxanaliyev6554 Před 4 měsíci +1

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    🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿 AZERBAYCAN dan hörmətlər !.

  • @Tom-Flanks
    @Tom-Flanks Před 4 měsíci +1

    Allahu akbar

  • @PacoOtis
    @PacoOtis Před 3 měsíci

    Pitiful that you do not provide any educational commentary! This is a rather awful format. Did an adult review this video prior to release?

  • @robertmanella528
    @robertmanella528 Před 2 měsíci

    To bad Amazon can't send it to Washington d.c. or new York city 😊😊😊😊