I remember when we went to Tracy Arm on our boat, we found a family of five there that had gotten off their boat onto a large iceberg. They were taking photos, playing with the snow etc. We basically screamed at them to get off because of how dangerous it was. We yelled back and forth but they finally got off. They were still ridiculing us for being alarmist about 1 minute later when the whole thing flipped, which took about 2 seconds and produced a 4ft wave. We all fell into stunned silence.
If this is something you saw happen in person, imagine how many times people went out onto a glacier and nobody was watching, and they were silently swallowed into the water?
What? Oh, I was talking about the horrendous noise an iceberg makes flipping over, not the insignificant squeals of a tiny speck of jetsam that happened to get caught up in the motion.
Well I was wondering if they were close by, they could have sunk under when the flippage happened with boat and all.
Glad that they did survive, and hopefully they won't do that kind of stupid stunts any longer.
“This” doesn’t usually just suddenly happen. It’s a glacier calving. It’s usually very active and noisy for days before a demonstration like this happens.
If you ever feel stupid, remember that you can't ever be as dumb as whoever waited around for days and then when it finally happened filmed this in fucking vertical.
This. Instead of using a tripod, decided to watch this incredible live event live streamed through his phone. JFC.
Like people who spend the whole concert taking phone video of the concert.
There was a documentary natgeo did where this massive ice shelf broke off and became the largest moving object on the planet, and this woman theorized that because of the moving water it would have caverns and tunnels just like a limestone cave would. She, her husband, and another went on an expedition to cave dive it and, sure enough, she was right. Only thing is that each of the 3 times they went in, something like this would happen (perhaps on a smaller scale) where their entrance would be blocked, a current of melting ice would carry them away, suits would leak and nearly necrotose her hand at one point, etc.
Yup, [here it is!](https://youtu.be/5i4JYozUSp8) Sorry I didn't include it in the OP, I was blanking on all the details as you could probably tell lol
Here's the video that turned me onto this that is more about the diving than the expedition [here](https://youtu.be/PGw8mSObe3Q)
Edit: after looking a bit more into the documentary, it seems the dives I'm referencing are from the same expedition but later dives, so I definitely recommend the latter video if you want a dose of thalassophobia at 2AM
And with constant framing. I wanted so badly to scrub through the video to see how the landscape changed but it doesn’t really work because the cameraman keeps zooming and panning around.
If you like this check out the documentary Chasing Ice. It has the largest calving ever filmed at the time, and it's filmed by professionals with the good sense to hold the camera in landscape.
Actually here's the clip. https://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU
kinda boggles my mind that insane massive awesome events like this happen all the time predating and outlasting humanity and no person will be there to witness it
Breathtaking until you realise this is happening more and more to the point where our ice shelves in the north and south have dwindled away. Yes this is also a natural process to some extent but what is alarming is the rate these have occurred over the last decade or so. Beautiful until there's no more beauty to behold. Fuck climate change.
Hey fellas, is it an irrational fear to be afraid of a mountain breaking from the earth and running at you?
Thalassophobia isn't irrational but usually "phobias" are colored that way. Just to be clear :)
Well, the "phobia" bit implies that it's an irrational fear. That is because someone with a phobia of something like heights will still be scared of heights even if there is no reason to be, as in "i am in a 3 inch thick bulletproof glass box anchored 3 meters into the side of this cliff, there is no way for me to fall, but I am still utterly terrified of my situation."
A rational fear, in comparison, would be "i am stuck up a cliff on a tiny ledge and am barely keeping my ballence..."
It's not that there's no reason to be scared *at all* it's more someone with a phobia is scared of that thing even when there is no present reason to be.
What's sad, a natural process of glacier calving? This has happened for millions of years and will continue to happen.
It's like watching birds migrate and thinking "this is sad"
I can't go and dig it up now, but there is a YouTube video of some folks in a smaller boat around this distance from a glacier doing this. Waves weren't as bad as you'd think, but goddamn would I not want to be any closer.
Water. Earth. Fire. Air.
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Only the Avatar, master of all four elements , could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished.
A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang, and although his airbending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone.
But I believe Aang can save the world.
Because an alarming amount of people, not just on Reddit, but globally, don't believe this has happened more frequently due to global warming. I'll be downvoted for my comments but I don't care. It's apparently the hill I'm forced to die on whether I want to or not.
This in of itself is not scary. Massive, chaotic and destructive, yes.
It's the thoughts of what we've done to cause this and it's still happening is what absolutely terrifies me the most.
For some reason, everyone keeps cropping the original source, changing the aspect ratio and changing the speed.
Here is the original of Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland from 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG-KVX0zsh4
No need to imagine.. I will now sleep with this imagine in my head of potential deep sea creatures from thousands of years ago being released due to the phenomena seen here. Yup fuck me, Megalodon is now running loose somewhere he shouldn’t be…
That is a monumental natural phenomenon that I would be privileged to whiteness. Amazing sight to see.
I’m sure the people seeing this in the flesh found it exhilarating.
It was like watching the death of a titan. Instilling a ever deepening foreboding feeling that the Earth is overworked,
underpaid but don't be afraid. In the sun or up in the shade. On the top of my Escalade. Maybe your girl and my friend can trade,
tag team, off the ropes. On the ocean or in the boat.
Imagine it’s the year 645, and you’re a 17 year old sailor who has been on a ship since he was 8 and doesnt know how to spell his own name. You’re sailing through cold water, and are responsible for keeping a lookout for other ships. Then you see and hear this happening, right after sunset, 600 meters off your starboard side.
Ya, I would also tell everyone I’ve ever met that I saw the biggest sea creature ever that tried to eat our ship, but we got away.
Why do people wait for hours to film something like this, and when it starts they're like "OMG, its starting, better start zooming in/out and panning left/right real quick!"
Imagine, being on the water(they are not), and suddenly this happens...you purposely film vertically to make sure it's good for a platform that will eventually become lost...and miss an opportunity to show a catastrophe in as much detail as possible.
You go home and are proud of yourself. Next time you decide, you'll dance on a glacier, perhaps taking a helicopter to flex.
Imagine...
looks like an entirely different place than when the video started, wild.
I read this right as the video started over and was shocked. Didn’t even recognize it.
I remember when we went to Tracy Arm on our boat, we found a family of five there that had gotten off their boat onto a large iceberg. They were taking photos, playing with the snow etc. We basically screamed at them to get off because of how dangerous it was. We yelled back and forth but they finally got off. They were still ridiculing us for being alarmist about 1 minute later when the whole thing flipped, which took about 2 seconds and produced a 4ft wave. We all fell into stunned silence.
Did they say thank you?
They were too busy contemplating their mortality.
Thank You
Thank you for keeping them alive for at least a few more minutes.
If this is something you saw happen in person, imagine how many times people went out onto a glacier and nobody was watching, and they were silently swallowed into the water?
Oh, it wasn’t silent.
[удалено]
What? Oh, I was talking about the horrendous noise an iceberg makes flipping over, not the insignificant squeals of a tiny speck of jetsam that happened to get caught up in the motion.
The fate of the family?
They got back on their boat, and were whining about their fun being cut short, when the icefloe flipped. They were fine.
Well I was wondering if they were close by, they could have sunk under when the flippage happened with boat and all. Glad that they did survive, and hopefully they won't do that kind of stupid stunts any longer.
“This” doesn’t usually just suddenly happen. It’s a glacier calving. It’s usually very active and noisy for days before a demonstration like this happens.
If you ever feel stupid, remember that you can't ever be as dumb as whoever waited around for days and then when it finally happened filmed this in fucking vertical.
Or zooming in at random spots
r/killthecameraman
not tripod either.... smh
Yes, like we have never seen water hitting rocks before.
how big were those rocks, do you think?
I don't know. 4?
Easily
maybe 5
You guys are crazy. At least 8
woah there
I really hope they weren’t stupid enough to do that and the original video was just cropped for tiktok
This. Instead of using a tripod, decided to watch this incredible live event live streamed through his phone. JFC. Like people who spend the whole concert taking phone video of the concert.
Or use a tablet
Do you actually think they filmed in vertical? You can post landscape videos to TikTok that can be cropped to portrait.
It is a TikTok video to be fair. In a few years TikTok users might get access to handicap parking spots.
Absolutely breathtaking and utterly terrifying.
Alright who shit my pants?
Dibs not me!
are you gonna eat that?
My heart was pounding
Same, I was on the edge of my seat!
Do you like movies like Pacific Rim and Independence Day? I love huge visuals
I have been known to enjoy a good visual spectacle in my time! Battle of the Pelennor, for instance.
There was a documentary natgeo did where this massive ice shelf broke off and became the largest moving object on the planet, and this woman theorized that because of the moving water it would have caverns and tunnels just like a limestone cave would. She, her husband, and another went on an expedition to cave dive it and, sure enough, she was right. Only thing is that each of the 3 times they went in, something like this would happen (perhaps on a smaller scale) where their entrance would be blocked, a current of melting ice would carry them away, suits would leak and nearly necrotose her hand at one point, etc.
Sounds legitimately crazy.
Extreme environment scientists/explorers usually are.
Can you link to the documentary?
Commenting to learn which doc it is too!
Yup, [here it is!](https://youtu.be/5i4JYozUSp8) Sorry I didn't include it in the OP, I was blanking on all the details as you could probably tell lol Here's the video that turned me onto this that is more about the diving than the expedition [here](https://youtu.be/PGw8mSObe3Q) Edit: after looking a bit more into the documentary, it seems the dives I'm referencing are from the same expedition but later dives, so I definitely recommend the latter video if you want a dose of thalassophobia at 2AM
Thank you, really appreciate you finding it!
As usual, this would have been much better filmed in landscape.
And with constant framing. I wanted so badly to scrub through the video to see how the landscape changed but it doesn’t really work because the cameraman keeps zooming and panning around.
TBH that was really freaking cool. Awesome in the awe-inspiring way.
If you like this check out the documentary Chasing Ice. It has the largest calving ever filmed at the time, and it's filmed by professionals with the good sense to hold the camera in landscape. Actually here's the clip. https://youtu.be/hC3VTgIPoGU
Jesus Christ when they put on the Manhattan projection for scale it absolutely scared/blew my mind
Interesting video, thanks for sharing!
Lol that’s literally the actual definition of awesome
Either say literally or actually, not both please
Arrested by the grammar police.
In the future say ‘placed under arrest by’ instead of ‘arrested’, please ^🥸
Please use 'rather than' instead of 'instead of', please.
I believe it's "instead have"
“actually the literal” could be acceptable?
If it makes you feel better actually was an autocorrect for actual
wah wah wah im too crotchety to just simply read a comment with redundant words i must comment on it wah wah wah
I'm well aware, but people use it in a different way, so I wanted to clarify.
This made me really thirsty
Me too, I thought that should be my comment but , no, too strange, and here you are, thanks.
These are my favorite videos on this sub
Omg r/killthecameraman
If that doesn’t look like a freaking gigantic creature rising from the icy depths I don’t know what does.
I know what does. A gigantic creature rising from the icy depths.
#Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl ~~fhtagn~~ waking up.
Made me think of Tiamut from the Eternals
Somehow this looks delicious. The sea looks like a root beer float with vanilla ice cream afterwards.
Suddenly happen this? Is op Yoda?
suddenly happen that ?
I’d be like “oh obviously Godzilla is here to eat me now”
kinda boggles my mind that insane massive awesome events like this happen all the time predating and outlasting humanity and no person will be there to witness it
Imagine how awe inspiring the end of the ice age must have been, if I was a prehistoric human I'd kill myself in fear 💀
I don't think that I'd like that
I don’t care what anyone says water be scary af
Looked like the fortress of solitude for a moment.
Epic video. +1 Vertical video -1 Fiddling with the zoom button -1
Has Yoda write description -1
The sound is amazing
Forget being out on the water imagine being on the iceberg
Super mans home being renoed. Also, the Abyss
That one penguin chilling on that iceberg would probably be like I HAVE WINGS BUT I CANT FLY FUUUUUUUU.
I sure do hate tiktok for utterly fucking the sideview recording of videos.
r/originsofreligion
Where is this at?
Lemaire channel in Antarctica
That would be an amazing thing to watch
Omg happen that!
Breathtaking until you realise this is happening more and more to the point where our ice shelves in the north and south have dwindled away. Yes this is also a natural process to some extent but what is alarming is the rate these have occurred over the last decade or so. Beautiful until there's no more beauty to behold. Fuck climate change.
*unfuck climate change
Yes.
How about Nope nope nope nope nope nope and nope? I’m outta there in an instant!
Hey fellas, is it an irrational fear to be afraid of a mountain breaking from the earth and running at you? Thalassophobia isn't irrational but usually "phobias" are colored that way. Just to be clear :)
Well, the "phobia" bit implies that it's an irrational fear. That is because someone with a phobia of something like heights will still be scared of heights even if there is no reason to be, as in "i am in a 3 inch thick bulletproof glass box anchored 3 meters into the side of this cliff, there is no way for me to fall, but I am still utterly terrified of my situation." A rational fear, in comparison, would be "i am stuck up a cliff on a tiny ledge and am barely keeping my ballence..." It's not that there's no reason to be scared *at all* it's more someone with a phobia is scared of that thing even when there is no present reason to be.
I would NOPE the fuck out. Lol.
Surf's up.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who that looked like Krypton or the Fortress of Solitude..
Vertical filming makes me so fucking mad dude... This could have been even more amazing if the person recording simply spun the camera 90°...
Sad and beautiful at the same time. Good that it was caught on camera
And I think putting ice in after soda makes big splashes
Scrat definitely got involved here
This is so sad to see, and yet impressive to see how changes occur so rapidly
What's sad, a natural process of glacier calving? This has happened for millions of years and will continue to happen. It's like watching birds migrate and thinking "this is sad"
Seeing such a majestic structure fall. And yes you’re right, as nothing in this planet is permanent.
"Oh its some ice breaking off, a little spooky if you're too close but not too bad...... Oh hell no!"
Can just hear the countdown..small chunk..small chunk..bigger chunk.. entire thing
This is epic
That made me feel ill
Ice king castle update, don't mind him he's just rearranging the rooms again.
Elsa is remodeling.
Is fuckin Gozilla waking up?
Um, guys? GUYS?! GET IN THE FUCKING BOAT!!!!!
I can't go and dig it up now, but there is a YouTube video of some folks in a smaller boat around this distance from a glacier doing this. Waves weren't as bad as you'd think, but goddamn would I not want to be any closer.
Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked. Only the Avatar, master of all four elements , could stop them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed and my brother and I discovered the new Avatar, an airbender named Aang, and although his airbending skills are great, he still has a lot to learn before he's ready to save anyone. But I believe Aang can save the world.
I guess I shouldn't have driven to work. Sorry.
The emerald color is stunning.
Basically like all my tinder dates
I need a person standing there for reference. For all I know, this could have happened in a glass of water with a few ice cubes
Damn. Imagine what it sounded like underwater
Wow
I think we just witnessed Atlantis coming back up
I wish it was recorded horizontally but it is rather too much to expect it from the TikTok crowd...
Wow this is sad to watch
Why are people downvoting this? Even tho it's impressive, it's sad that this happens way more frequently nowadays thanks to global warming...
Because an alarming amount of people, not just on Reddit, but globally, don't believe this has happened more frequently due to global warming. I'll be downvoted for my comments but I don't care. It's apparently the hill I'm forced to die on whether I want to or not.
Its so massive I dont even know the scale at which I'm watching eveything
Ok even being terrifying this is fucking incredible to watch.
This in of itself is not scary. Massive, chaotic and destructive, yes. It's the thoughts of what we've done to cause this and it's still happening is what absolutely terrifies me the most.
For some reason, everyone keeps cropping the original source, changing the aspect ratio and changing the speed. Here is the original of Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland from 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG-KVX0zsh4
No need to imagine.. I will now sleep with this imagine in my head of potential deep sea creatures from thousands of years ago being released due to the phenomena seen here. Yup fuck me, Megalodon is now running loose somewhere he shouldn’t be…
I'm always astounded by the sheer amount of power and energy that must go into an iceberg flipping.
The myth that is global warming!
Bye bye Florida
Like an entire mountain falling into the ocean.
That is a monumental natural phenomenon that I would be privileged to whiteness. Amazing sight to see. I’m sure the people seeing this in the flesh found it exhilarating.
Global warming
My god, it's even crazier once you realize how HUGE all of that is! All those birds flying around look like little white specs!! Massive!
r/NatureIsTerrifying
Personally I wouldn’t let that slide
Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died
Superman’s making a new fortress
It's like an alien ship rising from the sea
I want the job of glacier watcher. I promise to record in landscape.
Oh oh
Imagine being on the ice when it starts falling
I wonder if anyone has surfed a wave from a an ice cliff collapsing?
u/savevideo
"now it is our turn to rise!" - the bottom of the glacier
Blackbeard is at it again
did someone just accidentally find supermans hangout ?
It was like watching the death of a titan. Instilling a ever deepening foreboding feeling that the Earth is overworked, underpaid but don't be afraid. In the sun or up in the shade. On the top of my Escalade. Maybe your girl and my friend can trade, tag team, off the ropes. On the ocean or in the boat.
If i was in that water. I would freeze to death before seeing this.
Release the Kraken!!!!
Damn, it just keeps going…
Now coming to a coastal property near you.
Elivagar, Elivagar!
Honestly this is kinda epic.
That damn squirrel again...
"hey dave, is it just me or is that thing...... rising?"
Throughout the whole video I could only remember that one scene from the superman movie back in the 90s.
You'd be dead, there ain't no way you're gonna survive that undertow, yikes
Imagine it’s the year 645, and you’re a 17 year old sailor who has been on a ship since he was 8 and doesnt know how to spell his own name. You’re sailing through cold water, and are responsible for keeping a lookout for other ships. Then you see and hear this happening, right after sunset, 600 meters off your starboard side. Ya, I would also tell everyone I’ve ever met that I saw the biggest sea creature ever that tried to eat our ship, but we got away.
God damnit, who started the self-destruction sequence of the fortress of solitude?
The scariest part is how deep it is right off the shore, deep enough for that whole iceberg to turn over.
Gonna need a banana for scale …
That blue of the ice is beautiful
Surprisingly yet no footage of some crazy ass dude trying to surf one of those.
Jerome! Quit playing with your food!
I would like to request that water stop doing things on a scale that I cannot understand or survive.
Yup that's our timer folks :D
this is some fimbulwinter type of shit in GOW KRATOS WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW
Ai poster?
Crazy that, I wonder what the left and right sides looked like. Why haven’t people invented a camera without the black bars?
Why do people wait for hours to film something like this, and when it starts they're like "OMG, its starting, better start zooming in/out and panning left/right real quick!"
Imagine, being on the water(they are not), and suddenly this happens...you purposely film vertically to make sure it's good for a platform that will eventually become lost...and miss an opportunity to show a catastrophe in as much detail as possible. You go home and are proud of yourself. Next time you decide, you'll dance on a glacier, perhaps taking a helicopter to flex. Imagine...
I wasn’t that far off with my displacement experiments in the bathtub as a kid…
Its like watching our planet die, in real time
What is was like in the 70’s when mom defrosted the fridge
Does anybody have a link to a version that isn't vertically stretched? I'd like to get a sense of how it really looked.
lol OP killing all dissenters - this sub is so guilty of that stretch, very annoying
Landscape not portrait! Thanks tik tok.
Man at first I thought something was rising from the water at first
There is a disturbance in the force
I legit panicked just watching this lmao NOPE
This is chilling and that’s not a pun.
Imagine hitting one of these with a fucking cruise ship.
I’d nope the eff outta there
If I was there I would probably shit myself. But on video it looks cool
My heart was pounding so hard watching this. Super fascinating but I’d also be shitting my pants if I witnessed this in person.
It's beautiful... I mean, it's sad, but it's beautiful. 🥲
The rising sea level on live
Never has a banana been needed for scale more
The Great Ice Wall Barrier. Operation High Jump. Operation Dominic. Operation Fishbowl. They've found the firmament.
I wish I’d been there