An iceberg drifting perilously close to a remote Greenland village just did a barrel roll and the entire sequence was captured on video. The iceberg has been looming off the coast of Innaarsuit, Greenland (population 180) for some time and Claus Frandsen managed to capture the moment the berg flipped in the village harbor. Thankfully no one was injured and there was no property damage.
A massive iceberg looms in Innaarsuit, North Greenland. This video was filmed yesterday and sped up 5×. pic.twitter.com/WFLHddfC9C
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While this iceberg is no doubt colossal, it pales in comparison to another iceberg that was floating off of Innaarsuit back in July, 2018. That iceberg weighed more than 10 million tons and got grounded just offshore of Innaarsuit for weeks and prompted evacuation as experts feared that if it had calved chunks might have caused tsunami-like waves.
Claus Frandsen:
Yesterday we got a nice even scare. In recent days there has been a really big iceberg lying around in the harbor.
Yesterday morning it decided to strangle. First, a large piece of the northern side breaks off, and then a nice big wave forms that draws east quickly and pushes into the harbor, resulting in one of the fishing boats being thrown ashore.
Another fishing boat heads and ends up upside down, and a lot of equipment is lost = 1 mega-sad fisherman in Innaarsuit.
Then the iceberg rolls around nicely, after which it chokes a new piece, though smaller, but another wave as a result. No personal injury, but there are some who won’t be able to work the next few days. They don’t knock it out like that out here in the villages..
The sound though… The SOUND when that happens. Sounds like thunder, and you know it’s a bad thing, and you shouldn’t stand close to the ocean.
