A New Iceberg

[Marlene Dotterer]

Huge glacier breaks off Greenland shelf:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/environment/ci_15733154?nclick_check=1

Aside from the global warming debates this will cause, it will be... interesting... if pieces of this "ice island" end up in shipping lanes just at the time centenary cruises are following Titanic's route...

 

[Augusto Félix Solari]

It will all depend on how much have the iceberg-detection techniques developed in the last years...

 

[Michael H. Standart]

Since this beast has already been detected...kind of hard to miss something the size of Manhattan Island on the move...I think we can safely say we have that part covered.

The problem is how to deal with it if, more likely when, it gets into the shipping lanes. If it doesn't break up into smaller chunks, there's not much anybody can do about save to get out of the way.