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Related: About this forum"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed -
On May 28, 2008, Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.
I had never seen this before; scary stuff here.
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"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed - (Original Post)
babylonsister
Oct 2014
OP
Have you watched the entire film yet? Astonishingly beautiful, yet terrifying at the same time. nt
Mnemosyne
Oct 2014
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leftieNanner
(14,998 posts)1. Incredible movie
Go see it - better yet - take your crazy, conspiracy theorist, right wing whackjob, Foxbot cousin to see it with you. There cannot be any more climate change denial after you see this movie.
gopiscrap
(23,674 posts)2. Wow! That's amazing!!!
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)3. Have you watched the entire film yet? Astonishingly beautiful, yet terrifying at the same time. nt
jwirr
(39,215 posts)4. And all of that ice above the water level contributes to rising oceans. Wonder how much this one
calving contributed?
ffr
(22,649 posts)5. Netflix! Playing now. n/t
DreamSmoker
(841 posts)6. Mind Blowing the size of this....
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yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)7. I can not imagine the scale of it...
I would imagine it would have generated quite a tsunami, but I didn't not see one in this film.