Incredible GLACIER CALVING & TSUNAMI WAVE Caught On Camera! | Glacier Wall Collapse (Greenland)
Huge Icebergs collapsing and breaking from the Ilulissat Glacier are often up to 3,000 feet in height (1,000 meter) and are broken up by the force of the glacier and icebergs further up the fjord. Subscribe for more ► kzhead.info...
Greenland is home to the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica. The sheet covers 3/4 of Greenland's land mass. The Ilulissat Icefjord drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet and produces around 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Some 35 billion tonnes of icebergs calve off and pass out of the fjord every year (Find out more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakobsh.... In the last 25 years, the Greenland Ice Sheet is rapidly melting, having lost 3.8 trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2018, a new study from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finds. The melting ice has added 0.4 inches (11 millimeters) to sea level rise. Its cumulative 3.8 trillion tons of melted ice is equivalent to adding the water from 120 million Olympic-size swimming pools to the ocean every year (Find out more here: www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph....
Ice calving, also known as glacier calving or iceberg calving, is the breaking of ice chunks from the edge of a glacier. It is the sudden release and breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg, ice front, ice shelf, or crevasse. The ice that breaks away can be classified as an iceberg, but may also be a growler, bergy bit, or a crevasse wall breakaway. The entry of the ice into the water causes large, and often hazardous waves. The waves formed in locations like Johns Hopkins Glacier can be so large that boats cannot approach closer than 3 kilometres. These events have become major tourist attractions. Many glaciers terminate at oceans or freshwater lakes which results naturally with the calving of large numbers of icebergs. Calving of Greenland's glaciers produce 12,000 to 15,000 icebergs each year alone (Find out more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cal....
About this video: "Incredible glacier calving & tsunami wave caught on camera" (Bo B.)
This video is showing huge icebergs flipping over and subsequently a series of multiple iceberg and glacier wall collapses. Due to the enormous amount of ice falling into the water, the glacier calving event even triggered a series of mini-tsunami waves up to 16 feet in height (5 m) breaking on the shore.
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Mate, incredible video......why did ya stop recording?
@God's Com'n We have 10 inches in Massachusetts
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Thank god for the internet or 99.9% of us would never have imagined seeing anything like this.
its so important to see anything like this?
God*
Don't thank me.. i didn't invent the internet
John Kraken Yeah, that piece of crap black and White tv from the 60’s sure compares to this high definition color version. Who cares if it’s been seen before, what the OP said is still correct.
John Kraken I’m 46 sir. My point was, in the 60’s you had to catch the program while it was on. Even then it was a crappy picture and sound. Today, it’s just a click of the mouse away and millions more have seen it thanks to the internet. I remember the days of 3 channels and all the networks going off the air at midnight.
Wow, this is both awesome and fearsome at the same time. Thank you for not adding any music and for the silence during the entire clip, so that we can hear the sounds of nature. You’ve recorded something beautiful, thank you for sharing it!
"Something beautiful"? Only if a eulogy is beautiful. Earth is dying.
@@davenorth8922 Well you’re in luck. None of us will ever live long enough to see that happen.🙄
@@davenorth8922 The sight is beautiful as it's a natural thing that happens every year as summer approaches. What is not beautiful is that it's now happening at an accelerated rate and the glaciers are not regrowing in winter at a rate to compensate.
@@davenorth8922 No, ice has been melting since the beginning. It's not a new thing as the lying media would have you to believe. 🙄🙄🙄
@@zipmegolden It's melting far faster than ever before. Some seeker you turn out to be.
Truly terrifying to see how quickly the "Landscape" can change when the ice decides to shift. That was huge and it happens fast. Would love to see it in person none day.
Yes it’s absolute astonishing to witness something like that, but I think that we tend to almost forget or sometimes even deny that we are the cause of what is happening.
That's so beyond spectacular I can't even put it into words, just... wow. The blue/green water rolling off the iceberg was gorgeous. That's got to be the biggest glacial calving event I've ever seen...
Epic.
The colour of the water around the base of the iceberg as it rolled was so gorgeous.
was thinking the same, that nice turquoise color
You get that effect from layers and layers of sheet glass made into sculptors. Amazing colour.
Go to a Florida spring. They are just a beautiful and you can actually swim in them.
@@LichaelMewis Indeed
Emerald Green to me. 💚
To whoever did this video. Thank you for letting nature speak for ittself, and not hoopin and hollering like an idiot.
Yes!
Someone ISN'T an ESPN idiot on You Tube? Why didn't anyone TELL ME ABOUT THIS?!
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick Only on the web could someone suggest something along these lines. Now, over to "Fatal Car Crash Caught on Police Dashcam," posthaste!
Would you look at that! Just look at it.................just look at it...................would you look at that!
Ha I thought I was the only one annoyed by Ppl narrating
Absolutely amazing! Glad someone was around to witness this insanely powerful event.
Nothing amazing. Just fear
Thank you for uploading this. Like most on here, I've never been fortunate to see anything so incredible uploaded, let alone in person. I'm really envious
I cant get over the beautiful color of the blue green water
Thats some high quality h2o
It's one of the prettiest things I've ever seen in person. I've obviously never seen one calving, But up close to icebergs, you can see that color right under the water on them. It's beautiful, and it's full potential can't be seen through a lens.
The cold can be so beautiful. Never went anywhere but tropical, until I went to the Canadian Rockies, walked on glaciers, caught trout in a stream disconnected from civilization as a grizzly bear watched our boat from the shore, and this was the summer time! The Earth is amazing. I want to see almost all of it.
@@weirdmood8102 Iceberg colors determine age, I was told when on a cruise up in Alaska and we passed through a gulf of glacial fallout. The pure blues are hundreds of years old and the green ones can be thousands of years old. I'm not sure how scientific that is, but it is what I was told (am sure you can look it up!).
@@strandedinseattle9931 that's interesting. The ones I was seeing up close were a blueish green color, that is impossible to describe. I had never seen it before and haven't seen it since, but it was possibly the prettiest thing I've ever seen. The colors in Alaska are a whole different spectrum of their own. It's a beautiful place.
How could anyone dislike this video? There's no talking and annoying tourists. It's *perfect*.
Jayson McEwen probably people who don’t understand how glaciers work and they think calving is a sign of glacial melting.
Sadly some people aren't happy unless they're miserable
I dunno maybe it was the horrible zooming in and panning out. But the no talking part!!! Awesome.
Flatearthers who think you can't get close enough to Antarctica to see this....
Hes shaking the camera, shouldve used a tripod
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Talk about a changing landscape. Surprising how powdery the ice was. Incredible catch. Thanks for sharing.
It's like a snowcone!
When the iceberg tipped over the water looked beautiful underneath
Agreed
Yeah a colorful blue
Looked like nyquil blue
It sure did.
@@roguequeen6323 yeah PM.
Incredible awesome footage. Fabulous too to be able to hear the sound affects without the screeching, irritating comments which usually accompany something of this magnitude. Thank you
"screeching, irritating comments" - They let the comment section fill that requirement. 😝 😜 🤪
I am in total agreement with you on that score
Or even worse - music!
Is this incredible to you.
I bet that you are really fun at a sporting event Not.
That was one of the most mesmerizing events I've ever seen.! Thank you for posting. ♥️
Wow! Amazing, love these videos. I agree with Darren, thank you Licet Studios!
No soundtrack of insipid music or witless braying and yammering. Perfection!
Truly WONDERFUL : Thank You. Martyn, Cyprus
That's fantastic!
Agreed I could amagine this with a bunch of twenty year old girls in the back ground just"""OOOOOOOOOHHHHH MY GOD"!!!!!over and over again
It's like when I go golfing and enjoy the silence as silence is so hard to find , then some dip shit desides to crank the tunes,, ruins the placid
No US women screeching OMG every few seconds!!
No dramatic, overloud music...no Oh my g.., no silly comments, just brilliant , timed, controlled film of one of nature's most dramatic moments in natural sound settings. Thank you so much for this magnificent footage calmly taken and expertly judged. How very lucky you were to see such an event real time!
Just... INCREDIBLE! Thx for sharing, and keeping the natural sounds!
Your timing on arrival was spot on! Thanks for sharing.
Great video. No talking or screaming in the background and stupid music playing in the background. Perfect.
That's the same white noise I hear on my radio.
nothing quite as good as natural sounds
Almost perfect. Now people must learn not to move the camera. No zoom. No changing view. Just film it and move NOTHING.
@@hanspy2 so trie
@@hanspy2 i mean true
To witness something like this in person.. this could change someone. It’s hard to grasp the sheer magnitude of what’s happening here!
Abso F****** lutely
I was gonna post something similar but you said it. My eyes ar bugging out and im only looking at a screen in my hands. The real deal is inconceivable to me.
I was looking for _____________ to come outta that thing. A. Megatron B. Godzilla I don't remember but one of those were in an iceberg, or not. Nvmd
@@johnnyghanja pretty sure even Godzilla would get out of the way of this nonsense here lol
@@Midgeer so it wasn't an iceberg.?
One of the best I have seen. So much noise and action. Thanks for being there at the right time.
So beautiful and clean, Love the pastel blue tones With the white contrast!!!
By far the most incredible KZhead footage I've ever seen. I'm truly blown away.
Then you haven't seen much. There are videos where an area the size of Manhattan completely destroys itself. This is a very average carving event, and NOT very spectacular in terms of size or duration.
Yes I forgot the name of the glacier but I know what he is talking about. They had been watching it for a long time and were getting close to having to pack up and go but they caught it. You definitely need to research a bit it's so huge an area it's hard to gain perspective
The height that berg rose out of the water before tipping over was truly jaw dropping.
Thank you for the great photography And!! Keeping us High and DRY!!!
Thank you for keeping silent whilst recording this spectacle 😊😊
That's one of the most beautiful and terrifying things I've ever witnessed
Really? Wait till sea levels rise and real tsunami arrives.
Get a grip george
@@georgeshepherd694 chiil that might happen but dont go around scaring people
And sad...in a way...
@@jugglekittenxz4865 It is happening, and people have good reason to be scared!
This collapse was breathtaking...wow! My eyes were glued. Without your production, I would have never seen this phenomena.
By far the most impressive recording of an ice break up to date. BY FAR. I don't even want to think about how many polar bears just got wiped out. That was stunning. Talk about an adrenaline rush! My God.
Polar bears are some of the few animals that actively hunt humans when they can. No sympathy from me here. 😹
Thanks for leaving the natural sound ! Kind regards from El Calafate . Glaciers National Park. Patagonia Argentina .
This is the way a nature video should be. Save the comments for the comment section of KZhead. Keep quiet during the video.
Thank you for letting nature speak for itself. Nothing worse then having commentary, yelling or music in the background as this once in a lifetime event plays out. 😘
I wish we knew why people often feel the need to constantly spout verbal garbage from their mouth. Why not just be comfortable with silence and time to think?
There’s nothing worse than a fidgety cameraman who constantly moves the camera around and zooms in & out!
Amazing Glad it was captured on film for all the see... Amazing!
This is not the first time I have watched your video and it is still very impressive. Great sound quality.
That was dramatic! Judging by the amount of ice that fell into the water, I was expecting a bigger wave. Still, it seems like a once-in-a-lifetime sight you captured. Thank you for sharing it.
My guess is the lay of the land and/or collapse of the ice itself could have something to do with the size of the waves. If the slope was greater and the ice slid at an angle, I bet that wave would be catastrophic like the one that father and son experienced that was theorized to be upwards of 1700 feet high.
@@tortillasarenotbiceps7622 The Alaska tsunami?
@@shovelknight9417 Yes, I think it was Alaska.
@@tortillasarenotbiceps7622 that one was partially a landslide which was a major amplifier
@@670HP-Package-NOW Imagine seeing something that huge headed your way. I mean EEK!!!
Doesn’t even seem real, but Mother Nature produces some of the best visuals! And the audio is quite stellar too! Good job!
Matt Carroll literally a fucking mountain moving quite beautiful.
Amazing video. Thanks for sharing!🔥🔥🔥👍👏👏👏
Fantastic footage and quality. Looks well planned and executed. The iceberg looks about 15 stories high and maybe 300m in length, or more.
0:52 Sound of my back when I wake up in the morning...
Mike .R. Freaking hilarious dude! Reminds me of my elbows LOL have a great day
You better get that checked :-)
Sounds like a couple of corrugated steel pieces being slammed together!
Sounds like my knees.😆
@Greg Lawson nawwww. Once I crack and have some coffee - I'm good.
I can't even begin to wrap my head around how much ice I just witnessed break off and float away
Природа восхищает и пугает одновременно!Спасибо за очень красивое видео!👍👍👍
Thanks for the footage.
That was absolutely amazing! To see the iceberg rise hundreds of feet into the air, THEN flip over, and the tsunami that followed! WOW
why did it rise?
The bottom of the iceberg becomes smaller than the top, so the weight difference caused it to flip.
The amount of energy in this event must be astronomical
ur name is astronomical bro
It's the wrong form but it's on the order of a several kilotons just over a much longer period
It's our gross overuse of energy that directly caused this tragedy. The fact that you're even watching this means you are part of the problem. It's called climate change and if we don't halt it NOW we will be gone from this earth in as little as 10 years. BAN ALL FOSSIL FUELS NOW.
@@commentsboardreferee7434 how many times have I heard that story
@@cdistasio dude ur name is astronomical
The sounds are so frighteningly beautiful!
Wow, quite spectacular. Thank you for showing me something I might never have seen.
I imagine most of us cannot grasp the depth of this area. Doesn't look huge, but likely is enormous.
Your so hot 🔥
@@randallacton2445 And your to old! Lol
The birds flying around help give us some dept of the area and gives us a sense of how tall and big the glacier is.
@@zipmegolden It’s “too”. Not “to”.
@@randallacton2445 …and you’re a creep! :D
Why is this genuinely scary, like we as viewers don’t even realize how insanely huge that is
Meanwhile aliens a billion light years away: Earth fart.
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Really great recording! So much gone all at once!
This was so calming, so exotic and so mesmerising.
This ice waited thousands years to fall down like this
That particular ice did indeed wait thousands of years if not more. Learn how glaciers work. And you must be real proud with that disgusting screen name. Grow up
How did the camera man sit there quietly?
@@charles7562 No they don't, look into time lapses, they can happen within a season, you are looking at a decade MAX. The truth sometimes hurts when you realise you've been lied to, it doesn't lessen it being true. The earth is young, not millions of years old.
@@AndrewFosterSheff69 Young Earth 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@AOC's RAPISTRude stupid idiot and wrong. That ice did form thousands of years ago. Do some actual research and learn something instead of trolling.
The blue color of that water is beautiful. Hard to match.
So amazing your basically watching giant chunks of ice find their equilibrium and as such, they will break and flip in the most incredible fashion.
Amazing footage thank you 🙏
Relative to the circle of life of the planet and we got to witness it because of the amazing camera person.
And the people living here.
The colors of the ice underneath are just so beautiful! Aqua and sapphire and robins egg. Glorious. Beauty in an overwhelmingly wild package.
That was incredible. The scene went from tranquil toy complete turmoil in minutes!
Nature's power and wonder is awe inspiring. Thank you for sharing this amazing video.
Even though I hate cold weather I want to thank you for uploading this. This is so beautiful, and something I would have never been able to see otherwise.
Thank you, glad you like it!
Is it just me or does it seem like nature moves in slow motion. You can tell it’s not slowed down when the birds are flying around but it just feels slow. Absolutely awesome
Amazing 👍🏻. Life has been such an amazing journey! When I have left this body of mine, which has fed me all the information from every form of sensory (sight, smell, sound,... everything recorded in my mind), i have to say, "I will miss the experience of life and living"!
This clip is amazing, terrifying, alarming and gorgeous at the same time!
Best that I have EVER seen! That was truly awesome. And no idiotic screaming or noise making drunks to ruin it.
One of the most beautiful and terrifying things I've ever seen.
@¿0.O? that i also will never understand why people think that's terrifying. Too many people lost all connections to nature.
@¿0.O? Saying something is terrifying is not the same thing as being terrified ...
Amazing. Hard to understand the scale from the video...but being there in person must have been awesome.
Thanks for not talking during the video and just letting the video speak for itself.
How do the videographers know when exactly these collapses will happen? Their timing is impeccable!
Damn. I know that most of the iceberg is underwater, but it still surprises me HOW MUCH of it there is underwater
This is SPECTACULAR to watch!! I have lived in Alaska, in winter only, for work, and for work flown in helicopters over multiple glaciers, but never was there at the right time to see this sort of event! MAGNIFICENT!!
That was like watching Superman's home being made!
thankfully there wasn't a woman in the background screaming "ohmygod" a hundred times over
Or a........"man", lol!!
Exactly what I was thinking!! Lmao
Oh my Gaarrrd .. I HATE THAT!!!
@@dudeomondo lmao 😂✌
big time
Nature doing it's own thing without annoying music or screaming people in the background
Aided by our contribution to climate change.
Spectacular video 📸. May I share to others? Amazing view. Thanks for uploading your 📷.
How the videographer never said “wow” is beyond me. Great video!
I wonder what this sounded like underwater and how far away the sound traveled
Considering how loud that is above water...
Probably sounds like my wife eating a cup of ice
@@ratherbeonthemoon Ha. Ha.
Wow man, I kept waiting for that huge chunk of ice to stop rising but it just kept going and going! Truly amazing and great self control to be able to witness something like that without saying word. 👍🏻👍🏻
Excellent presentation... Not a word needed... Just watch and marvel... Thanks...(Tag so myket)
For posting this video, I thank you on behalf of the approx. 99.99% of people on earth who'll never be lucky enough to visit Greenland and see this in person.
What a privilege to see something like that in person.
Not a privilege just some money.
Scrat from Ice Age probably set this in motion while chasing his acorn
AMAZING!! THANK YOU!😳😊
Just imagine what it looked like under the water! This is one of the most mesmerizing videos I've ever watched!
I wonder how old that ice burg was ….. Absolutely STUNNING.
It's "berg", "Burg" means castle. But, you know, thanks to that tiny mistake you made, I realised for the first time that English uses the German word "Berg" in the term "iceberg", instead of "mountain".
Wow the landscape totally transformed within a few minutes
Wow! What an amazing capture
Whole lot of energy being released. Amazing
I find it interesting to note all the sea-birds gathering. There are a few to begin with but as the event unfolds, loads of birds are seen. Clearly they do not perceive these events as hazards, but as opportunity to feed. Events such as this must be as violent underwater as above, thereby disrupting the submarine environment and exposing aquatic and benthic animals to predation, in the same way that Terrestrial insects are disturbed by combine harvesters, which are then followed by flocks of birds. The mouth of a glacier like this, being a very dynamic environment, is likely a favoured spot for predators like this and I expect the rocky shore areas opposite to, or nearby, the berg-calving zone will likely be heavily populated with roosts and nests. Very cool video, thank you.
Or their nesting grounds were just sunk and they are disoriented
@@leebowitz1987 , fair suggestion but sorry no, only the Emperor penguin and a small Andean finch - the white-winged diuca-finch (Diuca speculifera) are the only birds known to nest on ice. All other species find something else solid and secure, since ice sucks the heat out of nests & eggs way too quickly the parents cannot incubate them. Much more likely the birds know these calving events happen, because they happen on a fairly regular basis, and nest somewhere safe while using the disturbances as an opportunity to feed.
Perhaps the most mesmerizing video ever
Mooiste film!!!! Tot nu toe..die ik zag!!!!!
that ranks about a 10 on the "WOW" scale, cool
Absolutely amazing to catch something like this on camera to share with the world!!
Since you can pull up pictures from the early 1900’s and see for yourself that the sea levels are the same as today…
This is one epic moment. Totally awesome to watch. Was not expecting to see the shooter come up behind the segment in the front. Totally awesome indeed.
It’s not a tsunami. Different type of wave. This series of waves is just the swell kicked up by the glacier calving collapsing. You don’t need to use clickbait titles - this is stunning enough all by itself...
Great filming! Thank you for the NO music and letting us hear the sounds of nature.
So beautiful thx so much for the video
That was an awesome catch!