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Date Posted: 06:44:50 12/18/99 Sat
Author: Dave Shuttle
Subject: Re: Icebergs
In reply to: James Pepper 's message, "Icebergs" on 19:40:45 08/03/99 Tue

> Was it possible to put people on the icebergs,it just
> seems to me that if you have a mountain of ice sitting
> there and you know people are going to die, maybe
> putting a couple of people on the icebergs would not
> be a bad idea. I've seen footage of some Vodka
> company going out and harvesting icebergs by getting
> on the things and cutting the ice off the tops. It
> took them quite a while.

Icebergs are, for the most part, huge masses of ice with imbedded rock material. They are usually sheer vertical cliffs on all sides that would be unclimbable without specialized climbing equipment. If a facing was available to people in the water that was not a vertical sheer, it would be super slippery (as all icebergs are) and any stay on an iceberg would prove them to be super cold. An iceberg, because it is a thousands of year old, multilayered chunk of polar ice, is actuallky much colder inside than on the surface, well below freezing, but that cold cotniually permeats to the surface. A person in wet clothes would most probably mot survive very long if he or she was successful climbing onto an iceberg.

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