Race against the tide, risking death under huge blocks of ice - Human Planet: Arctic - BBC One

http://www.bbc.co.uk/humanplanet The people of Kangiqsujuaq in Canada go to great lengths to add variety to their diet of seal meat, venturing under the sea ice during the extreme low tides of the spring equinox to gather mussels.

It's a race against time. They have less than half an hour to search these temporary caverns before the tide rushes back in. A look-out keeps watch for the returning tide, but warning shouts can't be too loud in case the echoes bring down the ice.

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[Proletariat12]

Either that cameraman wasn't being paid nearly enough, or this was staged and nobody was in danger.

[totallynotjonathan]

Apparently the camera mans balls supported the entire ice cave so nobody was in any real danger

[Alex Behrens]

Amazing

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Amazing

[Tia Rose]

Scary

[Benjamin Anderson-Agimuk]

How much do you know from first-hand experience? There is a level of modernization in all of the Inuit villages, but that varies with isolation.

[Benjamin Anderson-Agimuk]

It was most likely due to necessity. Food shortages that if they didn't decide to do that, they'd starve.

[mrboxleytheonly]

they really had around 20 minutes to get out of there, the water and ice creep suuuuuuper slowly.

[Süliné Klári]

Bemutatja az eszkimókat, amint jég alá mennek, amikor apály van. Mindössze fél órájuk van erre, utána a tenger újra visszajön, a jég alatt ismét tengervíz lesz. Fél óra alatt annyi kagylót szednek össze, amennyit csak bírnak - és nem szabad, hogy elszámítsák magukat, mert az életükbe kerül. Mindenki tud olyanokról, akik lementek a jég alá kagylót gyűjteni, és nem jöttek többé vissza. A jég sem biztonságos, bármikor beszakadhat, mert nincs alatta víz, ami megtartsa.

[Archonis]

I WANT TO KNOW WHO WAS THE FIRST ESKIMO TO CONVINCE THE OTHERS TO GO UNDER THE ICE TO GATHER MUSSELS!?!?

[ToshAroundMac]

Ayoye! Faut pas être claustrophobe. Les Inuits du Nunavik au Québec nous montrent un élément assez intense de leur culture. 

[Morgan Freeman]

boo shit