Antarctic glacial calving

[rrbond07]

Hey! Great video!

[kowalityjesus]

I like the harmonica music

[yetibiker08]

This calving makes the Alaska one look like a bath tub!

[pat2rome]

Hey, jackasses debating global warming, shut up and enjoy an awesome video.

[microsoftico]

wth!!.. Super amazing

[qezzit]

Excellent video.

[lightningstrike555]

that wave wouldve freaked me out i thought it was like 10 ft high matter the dept of the water

[gcracka95]

Good footage. Wow. Nice cool

[tj526]

Not all French. The ones that are mature, nonsocialists, and remember D-Day. They're good. I'm talking about the ignorant, anti-American ones.

[kowalityjesus]

the descriptors ''ignorant'' and ''anti-american'' are not necessarily mutually inclusive

[tj526]

OH NO GLOBAL WARMING WE ARE ALL GONNA FUCKING DIE!! We need to accept the Kyoto Agreement and shut down( or at least put caps on ) all our carbon/gas emmisions. In the process virtually destroying our powerful, wonderful economy and in the long run eventually return to the Stone Age. Here's a message from a patriotic, all-American capitalist from South Carolina: FUCK YOU SOCIALISTS!!! Stop kissing Europe's smelly ass and sucking up to the French who wipe thier asses with silk lol.

SEMPER FI!

[kowalityjesus]

I hope you enjoy the 2 weeks of hundred-degree weather that will be coming your way, ignorant wastrel.

[tj526]

Actually its been VERY cold down here. We had snow about a week ago. Who's really ignorant?? I suppose you think we need to accept the Kyoto Protocol, huh? I suppose you LOVE France and the rest of anti-american Europe( they quite forgot that if it wasn't for us, their whole continent would most likely still be Nazi-controlled ). Also I suppose you think President Borat Obama is the savior of the country and is gonna save everyone. Is global warming still Bush's fault?

[tj526]

In fact, you environmental wackos ought to love Bush because in case u forgot, he was the the president who stopped Governor Palin from allowing oil drilling in Alaska. He passed some sort of environmental protection law to protect polar bears( ever heard of simple relocation, Bush? Isn't our economy more important than stupid bears that would tear u apart and eat u alive? ).

Bottom line, who's REALLY ignorant, hmmmm????

[dunghoe2007]

Aren't calving glaciers amazing? The sounds they make and everything. The best footage I've ever seen is in a DVD called "Alaska, The Tracy Arm Experience", which can be found on Film Baby. It's available for download. Check it out! It has VERY RARE calving events.

If you want to see calving glaciers, check out this. It has a lot!

[josephsweeney75]

wow really awesome! Great footage. Must be really neat on that vessel.

[mkaydie]

Shieet :O

[DragusssQ]

i watched many vids with calving ice, but this creep is the biggest ;D

[Landrew120880]

At :56 That huge plume of water looks like a huge rock coming outa the water. Yikes!

[cardiffnightowl]

This is truly awe inspiring footage, would love to see a higher quality version, you should ask Alex to get it on TV. Thanks for posting it.

[m1sterh0tsauc3]

thats a huuuuuuuuge bitch

[musicfans16]

Wow.

[TheManWhoWasABomb]

When did Seth Rogen go to the antarctic?

[likmahchoda]

lol! TOTALLY sounded like him!

[grapesoda4me420]

holy shit :D

[AngelBug8580]

Incredible! Thanks for posting this and your other videos. They're amazing! Safe journeys! :)

[magicspin]

I like this video very much. Did you take it? If you did, where were you when you took it? How big in meters are the waves?

[antarcticexplorer18]

Video was taken by Dr. Alex Simms, from the bridge of the ship. I was on the back deck (outside!) enjoying the scenery before my work shift began when this whole thing started. It was most unexpected!

[Bloodroott]

@antarcticexplorer18 Hey! This is Patrick Young. I was also on the back deck. Do you know where to find the video that Tyler shot from the mid-deck, where he was screaming GET OFF THE DECK!?!

[CyrusNixes]

amawing. how big would you estimate the largest face is. My guess is 25 feet or 30

[danneskjol]

face of glacier is probably 150-300 feet tall

[CyrusNixes]

of the wave...

[danneskjol]

gotcha, yeah the biggest wave was probably 35-40 feet on the face as it was created and 15-20 feet by the time got to the ship. waves generated by calving lose a lot of their height really quickly before they sort of stabilize into a swell.

[RobG]

Unbelievable! I saw glacier calving in Alaska, but it was nothing compared to this.

[Cassie4486]

What was that big dark thing to the right as the icebreaker was turning????

[antarcticexplorer18]

around 40 seconds, you see the wall of the glacier break off...the dark thing is that piece of the glacier bobbing back up to the surface. it was massive. :0)

[Kaptainrdean]

and pretty close too. I didn't react to this until I saw that in the water

[kapahi2475]

@Cassie4486 i dont know look alien like

[Cassie4486]

Holy Mother of God!!

[wolf5823]

sweet. that's rediculous!!!