'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic

[XemaSab]

A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" has been filmed by a BBC crew.

With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking.

The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.

Where the so-called "brinicle" met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017

[xchrom]

1. I don't have enough neurotic fears? Nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It's an amazing episode of 'Frozen Planet'

the Winter one. I watched it this evening. As well as this, it had newborn polar bear cubs, spectacular aurorae, the world's entire population of spectacled eider duck in one shot, and a life-and-death struggle between a wolf and a year-old bison.

[azul]

3. Wow

Chilling.

[NYC_SKP]

4. wow. pic:

[trof]

5. Vonnegut's 'Ice-9'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine