World's fastest glacier. Calving enormous iceberg in Greenland.
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World's fastest glacier, calving enormous iceberg. Captured in a plane, by me, Ruben Wernberg Poulsen. I was only 12 years old and I filmed this with an iPad. Sorry for the unstable camera
My family and I, wanted to see the ice on Greenland. We bought at 30 min flight that would give us a look at the ice from a new angle, I brought my iPad to take pictures.
Our pilot spotted some 'ice dust' and we wondered what it was. Then all of a sudden, this giant ice block breaks off. We ended up flying 60 minutes instead of 30. Our pilot had never seen anything like it. And we were all so freaked out.
It was indeed a 'one in a lifetime experience.' And it was also very lucky that we were there at that exact time.
Our pilot said "I've flown past this ice in 4 years, sometimes 8 times a day, and I have never seen anything like it"
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Thank you for documenting this event. As a fan of iceberg calving, I appreciate the effort you took to capture this the best you could.
No person using a camera, EVER says "I'm going to intentionally make this blurry so you can't see what I see. "
Vert Green Thanks you!
That was awesome! Good filming and control, really. Earth is awesome!
THANK YOU! This is marvelous! A quick timeline for people who might click away too early: 0-0:10- Calf breaks off, bottom rises away from the glacier. 0:11-1:00 Calf settles to horizontal, blue part out to sea was the bottom, white part toward glacier was the top. ALL of the fractured and fissured stuff that was on the top fell off as it rolled. Glacier:### |:calf...Glacier:### \:calf....Glacier:### ----:calf....Glacier:###....---:calf. etc. 1:00-3:00 Calf rolls and bobs up, clouds of ice debris and and spray mark the break between calf and glacier, and between the former bottom of the calf and the offshore ice pack. Note that the calf is being propelled away from the glacier by all the loose stuff that fell off it into the break. Vast sheets of seawater slide off the blue part from the bottom. By 3:00 you can see a second blue part, broken off, still submerged next to the bigger part of the calf, and rising. 3:00-7:00 the broken-off part comes up in a couple of pieces. Between 3:00-and 5:00 the smaller blue bits are basically under the airplane and out of sight. Another broken off blue piece bobs up next to the calf at its other side. A big chunk of white ice either came off the top of the calf or broke off the edge of the glacier. and is helping shove the calf away.
This footage is exellent, thank you!
I'm amazed....I can't even seem to comprehend the scale of this.....amazing!
I've never seen ice with that intensity of color - it must be a bazillion years old.
I rarely comment on YT but I can't believe some of these armchair critics. The guy goes on a trip of a lifetime and wants to share a rare experience. He's excited by what he sees and he doesn't want to miss a thing - so he scans left and right, up and down and shows you what he saw, just as you would look left and right and up and down if you'd been there. Then he pops his head over the parapet and gets shot down by people who probably never leave town. You can't expect everybody's holiday videos to rival BBC documentaries made by whole teams who spend months making a 45 minute documentary using tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment. I'm guessing this is flight out of Ilulissat - I did a similar charter helicopter flight to Helheim glacier on the East coast earlier this year and made a short video of the trip. The only thing I think he could have done was to edit it down a bit more brutally - or maybe make two versions; a full one for posterity/specialist interest, and a shorter "highlights" version for the more causal observer. But well done - keep travelling, and keep filming! :)
Agree 💯. Also with so many stay at home experts. I'm surprised that we haven't a cure for cancer
Thank you good god
To whomever filmed this, thank you for sharing.
No problem :)
To me, by far, the most beautiful colors in the world. Blue and green. And here we see them in their highest glory. Look at that heavenly blue. So deep and frozen in time. What gets me is that we don’t see this as if we were there. That would be completely different. How enormous would this event be? What if you needed to emergency land a heli or Cessna right where you were. My God! This video is one of my favorites. And I’m only about 5 minutes in. Thank you uploader. You 🪨!
The algorithm Gods decided I needed to see this today. Praise the algorithm Gods.
If it is filmed by a 12 years old kid then indeed it is very nice video......
I think it would be really exciting to strap on a pair of crampons, and go strolling around on that hectare expanse of blue-black dense ice, while the berg was still slightly rolling and finding its balance point, especially if you do it without getting killed, which would be pretty likely. Thanks for posting the video, in spite of it not being “perfect” it is far better than any video anybody else took of this event!
This is by far my fave glacier calving video.
The optical effects of the propeller is mesmerizing.
beautiful blue colors in the ice.
Amazing...
Never seen such blue ice before. Beautiful!
Wow that's awesome 💜💙💋💖
That blue ice hasn't seen sunlight in a long time.
Unimaginable force, unfathomable violence,...yet such sweet symphony - perfect in every way.
The overhang of glacier over ocean must be miles long.
@Ruben WOW!!! Thank you very much for uploading it.
Ofcourse
The depth of the ice chunk that first broke off is unreal! It looked to be at least a quarter mile deep, and the intense glass like deep blue is beautiful! I'd love to walk around on that blue piece after it stopped rolling! Intense!
😀You did amazingly well, considering that you captured this using an iPad, while flying in a tiny plane and, filming a gigantic area that was also moving!
You were very smart, making sure you had your iPad with you for the purpose of taking pictures. I'm sure happy that you did!
Here in America, 12-year-old kids would have been so riveted on their iPads, they never would have known there WAS a calving event!
The shear size of the calving piece is incredible. Nice footage. Thanks! +
Great video mate. You have filmed one of the best calving events I've ever seen on youtube.
That blue ice is beautiful!
Indeed. It caused by the stream underwater and the hard pressure.
Always this deep shiny blue colour of ocean water. No matter if frozen or as liquid, it looks fantastic and in the end, like a saphire.
God how mind boggling big these pieces are and look at that blue. It's unreal how beautiful and terrifying it is.
Wow, that dark blue is almost black.
The colours are incredible.
At 2:07, that deep arctic blue and the arctic green colors are so beautiful.
Awesome. Mother Nature at her most spectacular.
Wow, that was incredible. Such a shocking event to have witnessed, thank you for sharing that : )
Congratulations Ruben Wernberg Poulsen for capturing history! It's an amazing video. An awesome, yet terrifying event. In this other professional presentation at about 11:35 it shows a sped up version of this calving event from another vantage point, but as a series of still photos! Yours is the only real time video!! There is nothing to compare for scale in the video but this fjord is some 1500 METERS deep! What you are watching is a piece of ice over 2000 meters width and all of that 1500 meters depth .... a total of 7 cubic kilometres of ice (according to Dr. Robert Corell in the following video)!! Thats 7 billion tons of ice!! Metrics work so lovely. a Cubic KM. 1000x1000x1000 meters and water (call the ice close enough to the same density) so 1 cubic meter =1000 Kg or metric ton. This is all detailed from about 11:30 to 16:00 in the video "Why the Arctic matters", but you being young and curious should watch the whole video. You will be much more affected than us old folks. I posted your video to "Why the Arctic matters" because I think it may be useful to them in their studies. th-cam.com/video/7s5NT5HPelg/w-d-xo.html
Thanks!
"On August 16, 2015 a calving was identified via satellite images as the largest ever recorded at Jakobshavn, with an area of 12.5 km²." Are these the same or separate events?
look at how blue and nice..!
how can 109 people say that they don't like this,what the hell can you dislike a fucking iceberg
They hate icebergs because they are anti-Semitic.
Lesley Macdonald They're probably jealous THEY were not there to see it ! 🤔
Holy that is amazing, like a small city rolling on its belly. Amazing
a big thank you for sharing this unbelievable show of mother nature !!! we feel so small...
Indeed we do feel small. And it's my pleasure to share this unbelievable video with you guys :-)
Wow that ice is spectacular, looks like a mountain made out of a sapphire or Lapis
what a fantastic color of the ice.
The moral here is, if someone invites you to go kayaking in this bay, say no thanks.
Haha. Correct
best thing I almost seen
Ruben Wernberg Poulsen, thanks for the amazing upload, will you talk a little about that day please?
Hamlet telmaH Me and my family, wanted to see the ice on Greenland, so we bought at 30min flight that would give us a look at the ice from a new angle, I brought my iPad to take pictures.
Our pilot spotted some 'ice dust' and we wondered what it was. Then all of a sudden, this gigant iceblock breaks off. We ended up flying 60 minutes instead of 30. Our pilot had never seen anything like it. And we were all so freaked out.
It was indeed a 'one in a lifetime experience.' And it was also very lucky that we were there at that exact time.
Our pilot said "I've flew past this ice in 4 years, sometimes 8 times a day, and I have never seen anything like it"
Hamlet telmaH b
that is the most beautiful blue
I have watched this video previously but I am still impressed with how big this iceberg must be. I would love some professional analysis to figure out how big it was and how fast it was moving. Did anyone else realize just how far from the glacier face it moved in the short time the video was made?
I could only imagine what it must feel like to be near a massive chuck of ice the size of a small city that breaks free and flips over.
Absolutely amazing
amazing colours
The tremendous and accelerated retreat of Sermeq Kujalleq is both worrying and sad; calving events are magnificent but the rate of loss of Greenland's ice mass is disturbing. :o(
+Hiker Huw
Why is this disturbing ? It's nothing new. Greenland's is not losing ice mass. It is gaining ice mass. Wake up.
At least according to The National Snow and Ice Data Center that shows surface mass balance (SMB) over western Greenland has increased consistently and constantly since it started measuring in 1958.
nsidc.org/greenland-today/
Some more of those Inconvenient Truth's that Al left out of his movie
+sugershakify All I could see in that article that seems to be relevant to your comment was that SMB hadn't changed much? That's only the SMB. I have read many other research papers on total mass change that corroborate each other. Personally it disturbs me me to see how fast Sermeq Kujalleq has retreated and reached grounding point. Having been there and spent months hiking in Greenland and living out of my tent, including being out on the ice sheet several times over the years, I think I'm entitled to my opinion. I won't spend any more time debating with someone who's attitude is to tell us lesser informed mere mortals to "wake up"!
+Hiker Huw All right, so no debates .... I forget the science is closed.
I will go back to my original question then. Why does this "disturb" you ? Ice melts. Sea levels rise and fall. They always have. Why is this suddenly "disturbing" just because for the first time in history we have the means to empirically quantify it ?
sugershakify Does your point warrant much debating when based on only part of the picture? You said Greenland was gaining mass. My comments were based on overall losses of over 200Gt/yr! We're a long way apart - perhaps it's you who needs to gather more facts than tell me to 'wake up'. "Note that the mean curve does not end at zero at the end of the year. Over the year, it snows more than it melts, but calving of icebergs is also part of the total mass budget of the ice sheet. If the ice sheet was in balance, the calving should exactly match this net accumulation over the year. Satellite observations over the past decade show, however, that the ice sheet is not in balance. The calving loss is greater than the gain from surface mass balance, and Greenland has been losing mass faster than 200 Gt per year. Especially noteworthy in this regard is the 2012 season, where the surface mass balance was almost 300 Gt below normal."
polarportal.dk/en/groenlands-indlandsis/nbsp/isens-overflade/
My head exploded when i started this video and my volume was at full blast...
Such pure vivid colors and alien shapes :)
Agree. I could not believe what I saw
Amazing sight but, I wish you kept the camera still!!... 😉
Probably pretty impossible from a helicopter ;)
Wasn't a helicopter.
koeielul112 Its a plane my friend, you can see the right hand prop on the wing in some of the video. ;)
i thought that at 1st too till i saw the propellar
you try and keep a camera still if filming in helicopter
Beautiful
iceland is the most beautiful, untouched place in the world
+DSGN this is shot in greenland.......
awesome videos. these never get old
Much better live. I envy you, Ruben.
ok. i apologize for the overly harsh critique. now that you explained the circumstances i have to do a 180 and say you did a fine job with what you had to work with. please forgive my ignorance.
I take your apologize :). I know it's not the best filming and I see what you mean. I'll forgive you. Have a great new year :-)
TH-camr accepting they were fully in error, with grace and humility, even proffering an apology? Clearly you are a poe - What is the internet coming to!
But seriously guys, I commend you on your refusal to allow the anonymity of the internet to divest you of common civility. Humanity 1 - Trollmanity 0 ! ;)
Incredible video! Thanks for uploading!
This 12 year kid is better behaved when filming calving icebergs than those low-class tour groups in Argentina that scream & holler at falling ice.
Excellent job!
I don't think I've ever seen a giant navy blue iceberg. What causes that?
the older ice at the bottom gets compressed under the weight of the glacier, then with most of the air bubbles gone, the ice gets very crystalline and blue...you can bet that ice was deep when it broke off and surfaced!! The upper ice not only has less pressure on it, but it gets exposed to greater temperature swings and sunlight...this cooling/warming cycle creates the more porous, whiter ice we see as the glacier approaches -
Glaciers are created when layers of snow are compressed by the weight of new snow above it. So they not water that has frozen, it's snow that has been compressed into a solid mass. Because its so dense, it filters outs some of the colors of the visible light spectrum. So what is reflected to your eye is the blue color. It's even more profound on a cloudy day because the clouds also filter out colors.
Impressive
amazing footage!
Nice!
AMAZING
What altitude were you flying at? That was one big iceberg that calved off!
How big is this iceberg,it looks huge !
The iceberg you see is 900 meters long, 900 meters wide and 400 meters high.
Спасибо, что сняли и выложили это замечательное видео! Очень интересно и красиво!!!!
Woow ruben
Freja Rasmussen tis
Orale
So it is the fastest-growing glacier on earth!
i can't hold this camera still to save my life!
This is so beautiful yet absolutely horrifying. This is part of Mother Earth that feels absolutely no compassion for life whatsoever. Anything bigger than a microbe down there would be absolutely and utterly destroyed. Erased from existence.
Yes! I have thought the same thing. Extraordinarily dangerous. No place for anything living...
+VibeXplorer Unless you are a lifeform that enjoys living as a slushy. O.o
"Ice Eventually Melts" Albert Einstein.
Einstein was wrong.
Water bears
Alright pal keep the camera steady! Incredible footage nonetheless, it must have been truly awesome in person.
Hehe... Sorry for the bad filming. I was 12 years old and i filmed with a iPad
I’m glad we are entering another ice age, can’t stand summer.
+Ruben poulsen Thank you. never seen anything like that before.
It is difficult to judge size... but could it be as big or nearly as Niagra Falls?
It would be awesome to get a core sample of that dark blue ice and see what’s trapped in it
Looks awesome, bit of a shame there is nothing in sight that would give some indication of the undoubtedly massive scale of this event.
An ENORMOUS JEWEL !
rigtig flot!! det er jo en drøm for mig at opleve sårn noget! :P
Doesn't it mean when the ice is real blue that it is thousands of years old and it has had all the air squeezed out of it by ice and snow on top of it?
+Norman Mcgill
Yep. And the purest fresh water. I'd luuuuuv to have some cubes of it for my scotch.
+Grumpy Hermit Thanks for the reply Grumpy. Certainly is a spectacular video. Nice airplane too.
Norman Mcgill There's no way to tell how old that I've is, since carbon dating has been PROVEN inaccurate . Could find Aunt Bee in that ice or maybe Ann Bolen's head !
Grumpy Hermit thinking the same... 🥃 Cheers
how much was the charge for that flight?
I knew I shouldn't have mowed my grass on that ozone action day!
could not see that much as an aerial
You could not see the forest because of all the trees
does anyone know why the ice at 4:57 is so blue? I have always wondered why this happens, thanks
Jonathon Mattingly its the underwater stream that creates so much presure that the Ice turn blue
o ha thanks never understood the reasoning
There is, or has been enough pressure to compact the air out of the ice, completely. Pure water.
Once the great pressure above has squeezed the air bubbles, the purity of the ice means that most of the light is scattered, but more of the blue light ( being of the shortest wavelength), gets reflected
I'm no expert but I'm wondering how difficult it is to keep a video capturing device somewhat still. beautiful from what I could actually see of it tho
It is indeed beautiful. I filmed it with an iPad at he age of 12
I can't really tell what's happening. :(
can someone tell me the timestamp for when the calving takes place?
Nice aerial of the ice sheet but I don't see the "calving" at all. I can't tell where the glacier ends and the ocean starts.
DELETED (Possible Wrong "FACT" on my part.)
The ocean is harder to see because it is, for the most part, covered with bergs of all sizes, broken and crushed ice all held in a matrix by the thin ice freezing over the water surface. So look at the glacier edge, the "Ice Cliff" if you will - the sea starts at the bottom of the cliffs. The glacier's surface is high and snow-covered, the icy sea surface is low and covered with broken ice and 'bergs.
As you know how to edit, presumably you also know you can delete?
Cool video, a little bit shaky. Still cool video.
Use viewfinder in future, that bar was in front of lens ... Hard to follow..
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Big bergs.
Why is the aircraft make/model?
I wonder what causes the INTENSE BLUE ICE!
Rubin, I apologize for attacking you personally....at 12 years old we'er all idiots I sure was(still am)....Really neat that you were able to see one of the most monumental things ever seen....I can see enough in your film to tell that it was one of the largest calving events ever....But it is frustrating that due, no doubt, to youth and inexperience you were unable to hold the first wide angle shot throughout the entire event. I think everyone would have loved to see what you saw that day....also puzzling, to say the least, that the adults in the plane with you weren't cogent enough to have had at least the level of equipment you had....oh well Murphy's Law in action....next time HOLD that wide angle shot..It's amazing how many people blow it by zooming in; leaving the rest of us wondering what the context of the scale of whole scene really looked like.....
What gives it that beautiful deep blue color.
Blue ice = frozen water. White ice = Compacted snow. The difference? Air bubbles ;)
And the fundamental reason - which no-one thus far seems to have addressed - is that with pure ice most colours are scattered, but the short wavelength blue light gets reflected, thus we see it as "blue ice".
I wanted to ask about the possibility of using your video. Can we get in touch?
Depends on what you're planning to use to for. DM me
I can't find the DM option. Can you send me an e-mail: loonychameleon@gmail.com? Thank you in advance.
I've send you a mail
i've sent you another one
A Timelapse would be much cooler.
amazing
Can someone please stabilize this video. Ice moves slowly and you really can't see anything with the camera bouncing around.
Go watch cartoons you fucking dummy.
Fantastik
I didn't knew that Calvin Harris was a glacier...