The Frozen Tsunami
February 13, 2008 - 29,183 views
When I first saw the pictures, I thought it was a frozen tsunami. Well, it’s not, I kinda overdid it. The pictures you are about to see are from a glacier in Antarctica. The annual temperature there is below 0 Celsius everytime. Antarctica is by far the coldest continent and some places reach -90c. The blue ice in the picture occurs when snow that falls on a glacier is compressed. The air bubbles left inside are squeezed out, leaving the ice clear and blue.
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havent we seen this like all over the internet few weeks ago …
still … its an amazing site … good pictures too …
I love images like this. At first you wonder if it’s a fake, and even though they may be fake (I’m not saying this one is), it’s always so entertaining to see magnificent images such as this one. It’s so weird to something like this.
you gott to see thiss man its totaly amazing the glacer and everithing and the snow fucking fantastic……
inaacurate description
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/antarcticwave.asp
It’s a frozen tidal wave, not compressed snow. Snow maintains its color no matter how much you compress it.
The water under the ice in Antarctica is already below freezing, so when it blew out of the ice, it froze immediately. The result is this.
Apparently Smarter Than Thou isn’t smarter than anyone. Compressed snow becomes …. Ta da! ICE! Compressed ice becomes glaciers. Glaciers pick up many colors, including pink, blue and green(among others). The photograph is NOT a freaking frozen tidal wave.
Unlike the Arctic, Antarctica has a land mass. When water hits 32 degrees farenheit it freezes. 32 degrees farenheit is the FREEZING POINT of water – water under the antarctic ice mass is NOT already below freezing – otherwise it would be ice – not water.
I recommend starting at http://www.gma.org/surfing/antarctica/antarctica.html for a little information.
i wanna lick it
Obviously photochopped, you may fool some of these simple people, but not me.
even this comment
Just wondering also an idiot too. water below Antarctica actually is below freezing, because it is SALT water and freezes at lower temp. Nice try though
if it is fast moving. Check the video of the waves that instantly turn to ice when they crash ashore in green land. But this can’t be a frozen tidal wave if antarctica is above LAND. Plus it just doesn’t make any sense that the whole wave would freeze in an instant. some would freeze while other parts are still moving and the end result would not look like a still capture of a wave.
tjfur is also an idiot. Antarctica is a continent, there is no water below it. Surrounding it, yes. Nice try though.
Fake, but still cool
real or not i think it’s still nice. why act like kids and call names? be an adult for once in your lives
Not sure if this is real or not…but some scientific observations/corrections:
@Just wondering:
You are very correct about the formation/colouration of glaciers, but wrong about the freezing point of sea-water.
@tjfur:
You are correct about the lower freezing point of sea-water, being saline it can reach MUCH lower temperatures before freezing, however the same applies above the ice too, for misted fresh water to freeze instanlty, would need to be below -2C, so for a large volume eruption of salt-water to freeze that way would require an air temp close to that of liquid nitrogen!…certainly not in the “relatively” warm Antarctic temps.
@ironic:
MOST of Antarctica is formed over a landmass, however a lot of the outlying area is ice-shelf, which has nothing but (very cold) sea beneath it.
My guess is that it’s either a very good photoshop….or a natural glacial phenomenon that looks like a wave…most likely the latter
My God…
I am so sick of all you morons who instantly say ANY photo on the net is photo-shopped.
For the love of god… Would you get a life you idiots.
This is very real… I’ve seen it first hand.
NOT everything on the net is photo-shopped… Leave your recliners for a minute and turn off your computers… There REALLY is a WORLD out there… And it’s NOT all made up.
P.S. The world IS in fact ROUND. (Seriously… NASA did NOT photo-shop it.)
everything has to be an argumenttttttttttt
on an episode of man vs. wild, where he’s dropped into patagonia, he hikes over a really really huge glacier that is just like this one. he explains that the brilliant blue color comes from the compression of the ice. and i mean, bear grylls said it. hello, he is god. those dont even look remotely photoshopped in the first place….
these are really beautiful pictures. i like them.
http://www.aolcdn.com/aolnews_photos/02/07/20070723134309990013
look, he’s INSIDE OF THE BLUE GLACIER. clearly, it’s photoshopped. the whole episode was photoshopped. bear grylls is photoshopped. discovery channel? doesnt exist. photoshopped.
LMAO!
I love you Emily!
TOO FUNNY!
Hey… Wait a minute… How do I know YOU’RE not just some photoshopped response!?
For that matter… Maybe this entire page is photoshopped!
Come to think of it… I thought I looked a bit different this morning………….
OMG!
What if “I” am really just photoshopped… And I only THINK I am real…
I’ve always been told I have an FREAKISHLY LARGE _______…….
Wow if this is true and we are all photoshopped then whats the point?
I am going to photo shop some pills and a glass of water!
Nice pictures though.
DON’T EVER SAY THAT Bear Grylls IS PHOTOSHOPPED AGAIN!!! You sinner! Blasphemy!
Yeah, anyway, I love the colors in this. It reminds me of an ice cavern I ventured into on a climb once. It’s amazing how there are so many brilliant colors in nature. It’s also amazing how we tend to miss it, like the sunsets in Indonesia, the brilliant red leaves of certain plants in Costa Rica, the hazy gray of the mountains first thing in the morning in the Canadian Rockies, or the baby blue transparencies of an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.
Cheers,
Chad
That was fake and gay
Water will not necessarily freeze at 32F (0C). In fact, pure water will not freeze until it reaches -40F/C. So the temperature of the water can be 0F and still be liquid.
amazing pictures
the red fat-men reunion.
Happy to see I haven’t melted all the ice with my Hummer, since I still haven’t paid it off with my 2nd HELOC.
Actually chances are the water below the artic are already frezzing seeing as how there is salt in the water it doesn’t freeze. This must be fresh water in order for this to happen.
wild-out of this world freaky.we have yet to fully understand the world of science.awesome!
Well…what a journey. It’s no wonder I never believe anything I read in email. And as for you “Sick of idiots “, it might not be photo-shopped, but that doesn’t mean that you (oh worldly traveller), or some other idiiot didn’t make up what they thought it was. I love travelling around the world, and listening to travellers (mostly Americans), as they take pictures and decree what it is they think they are looking at. Folks..it is real ice. I have worked in the Arctic. snow, water, and ice…eventually compacts into very old and very blue ice. It looks like a Glacier, but I do not know for sure. Nor will I pass this on to anyone. The reason I went looking for this photo, is someone is now passing it around the internet and claiming they took the photo in the Great Lakes. It is a shame. The internet is a great resouce. Next time, don’t post a photo unless you took the pic. (and don’t guess what you think it is!!!)
lolz epic fake, this is so fake that change the meaning of feakness
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this isnt a frozen tsunami. what are some of you people thinking?
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All these comments about how or what it is, and NONE of you have it right.
This, friends, is an overturned iceberg. The blueness comes from the fact that water pressure several meters below the surface of the water (remember - 75% of any iceberg lies below the surface of the water) compresses the ice and removes any air bubbles. The wave like formations are formed by the water currents flowing around the mass of the iceberg underwater. As the summer months roll around, the top of the iceberg increases in temperature and bits of it fall off, making the balance of it unstable, eventually they can roll over. Obviously this iceberg, once rolled over, has been jammed against an existing, or formed icepack - giving ‘land’ access to it for the photographers.
Hey.. Is it only the few who play the old “photoshopped” card who actually know about the old “photoshopped” card? Its when you claim EVERYTHING is photoshopped… even when it is CLEARLY not. Its HUMOUROUS
Chill everyone. Just enjoy it, fake or not.
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