Amazing!! Alaska’s 400 ft High Aialik Glacier Ice Calving!

We were lucky to see some of the season’s best ice calving on the Aialik glacier in the Kenai peninsula of Alaska. This was recorded June 11, 2021. Thanks to Major Marine for the up close experience! It’s important to note that the Aialik glacier is one of the few that is not receding. The true size can only be experienced in person.

[@mitchblackmore5230]

Why is something so simple, so incredibly satisfying to watch?

[@caroleroseburgh1344]

I love the sound of the ice cracking, and the loud roar it makes when it's coming down.👍🏽.

[@russtaylor2122]

I watched it on mute. How many 'Oh my gods' did i miss...?

[@huornaldarion781]

None, just oh my gosh.

[@peterjames3971]

@@huornaldarion781 oh my gosh

[@Lynnefromlyn]

At least they left that screaming woman behind this time!🤣

[@venetiaanortrup8514]

Alot

[@lynnscotland826]

Lots 🤣

[@tracy1394]

Amazing that we are still in the ice age watching it warm up !like this.

[@terenceiutzi4003]

Yes, we are in an ice-age, but the warming is once again coming to an end. These glaciers are advancing right when Millankovitch said they would. We are continuing the 20,000,000 cooling that Earth has been going through!

[@troyottosen8722]

First off, I am out at this glacier almost daily as a crew member on a tour boat and have seen some incredible calving over the years, gotta say that’s the most amount I have ever seen come down! Plus you had cloudless weather in this rainforest!😉👍

[@dlr5382]

Amazing calving!! It's true you cannot capture the immensity of this natural phenomenon on film - I feel so lucky to have seen this glacier in action in person. Nice job and you were so lucky to have seen Aialik moving so much that day. Major Marine Tours is top notch as well, I agree. :)

[@garyandrewranford]

A total joy to watch... A brilliant video, stable, controlled, and no hysterical onlookers either...

[@troyottosen8722]

I am at that glacier almost daily during our summer tours I work on, seen some awesome calving from Aialik, but this is about as good as you will ever see, only thing more awesome was I was same area on a trip day before our huge quake of 8.2 out in the gulf of Alaska, then was there the next day and the whole area was choked with ice that busted loose due to the quake! Amazing, just another day here in awesome Alaska!👍

[@MegaBadseed]

People will complain about anything, this time it’s the “OMG’s” in a video.

[@Workdove]

That was really good, really satisfying

[@crunchynuts793]

At 1.54 the mythical cave entrance appears!! I was half expecting to see the Goonies ship sail out of it! How cool was that!

[@winxclubflora8446]

A video about calving that actually only shows calving? I cant believe it! Amazinggg i mean most of the times its a 20 min video with one minute of calving

[@bestamerica]

' very beautifully blue iceberg cliff fall down to the ocean... good videocamera with smooth video

[@isotropisch82]

Its really hard to tell the scale, but I've seen this in Patagonia and the floating blocks at the bottom of the glacier are around the size or larger than the the tourists boats which hold a hundred or more people.

[@josedacunhafilho]

What these films do not reproduce is the thundering noise of glacier calving.

[@lovejago]

Love the natural god giving way are planet lives. Global warming/cooling or just staying the same over Millon's and billions of years. Don't panic people!!!

[@cleopatra1633]

exactly, well said

[@cristinaclark-keown9808]

So beautiful!!!!!

[@maggs131]

Still waiting on seeing a spaceship sticking in there somewhere

[@AdventureWalk4K]

Awesome capture! It just keeps calving, and churning up big waves! Amazing to see nature doing its thing up close. Thank you for the great share 👍❤️

[@soulsoothingnatureandmusic]

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[@melindabendle288]

WORLD WIDE THANK YOU VERY MUCH THE ENTIRE WORLD IS HEADING FOR COMPLETE CLOSURE GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🇺🇸🇺🇸🌎🇺🇸🌏🇺🇸🇺🇸🐧🌊🇳🇱🙏

[@cleopatra1633]

drama queen🤢🤮

[@greenvilla7]

The only thing that makes me laugh is if the large chunks of that detached from the glacier good easily re-emerge as ice bergs just where the observation boat is … quite a surprise???

[@johanneabelsen1644]

Drink everytime, that man says :" Oh my GOD..!"

[@andrewwilde3389]

Oh my God? Whatever happened to awesome Yank?

[@OldJoe212]

What did glaciers do 1000's of years ago before there were people to cheer them on???

[@sadeepasadeepa9118]

Wonderful 😊

[@johnsmith100]

Lots of: Oh my god / Gosh there :)

[@donnabratcher6592]

Who are you to judge? Are you perfect/ sin free?

[@johnsmith100]

@@donnabratcher6592 It’s not a matter of judgment but rather of counting. Count for yourself how many times in this video the phrase: “Oh my God” was pronounced. My character has nothing to do with it.

[@iamcarbonandotherbits.8039]

Some serious calving there. My dad said meh! He's done way better on thanksgiving.

[@crocodile1313]

I heard someone say "now I know why they pointed us into the waves..." Still, they must have been on a cruise ship, or something very stable, because it seemed like the boat barely moved with those waves.

[@christianhamel4862]

What a nice shorty clip, on camera just at the right moment 👌, nature's is amazing 👏

[@alfredneuman6488]

I wish the people who filmed these glaciers could just keep their mouths shut. Same for the people around them.

[@ut000bs]

I bet you're a hoot at parties.

[@alfredneuman6488]

@@ut000bs Hell yeah!

[@daciatravel.647]

Very nice video!

[@ИВАНЧЕРНОВ-щ2я]

ВЫ СМОТРИТЕ ПОСЛЕДНИЕ ГОДЫ ЖИЗНИ ЗЕМЛИ... ИДЕТ ЕЕ РАСПАД....

[@puirYorick]

Too bad somebody felt the need to narrate every moment like some 80s Valley Girl - oh my gawsh!!

[@MonthlyFails]

Hello Jonathan, some awesome shots you made here. Is it by any chance possible to get in touch with you to obtain a license to use your video? (i.e. via email) Cheers, Felix :)

[@ХозяйкаМира]

Тает трон снежной каролевы.

[@brunobembi5276]

we're lucky to be living in an age where this is possible!

[@crocodile1313]

At first I was like "hell yeah!" but then it hit me, and I thought "wait a minute, I hope this person is being sarcastic!" LOL

[@ut000bs]

@@crocodile1313 We can video it and share it around the world is what he was saying. Not sure what could be sarcastic about it, though. lol

[@crocodile1313]

@@ut000bs I thought the original commenter might have been referring to "climate change/warming." Now that I look at it again, you're right, I probably read too much into it.

[@crunchynuts793]

OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH.... 🤦‍♂️...theres a billion tonnes of ice falling a billion feet Into water, but all you can hear is them! .. Yanks are far too loud!

[@yeoldescratch3345]

What they are actually saying is Look at me Look at me Look at me Totally agree they are far too loud

[@patriciaschuster1371]

MUTE is the only way to watch it. Thanks.

[@Rnankn]

I like ice. It calms me.

[@andreasekler5313]

Really? All they are able to say is OMG??🤦 I just can't stand to year it again and again 🙄😖

[@johnforthmeijer229]

How manny Times omg 🥱

[@kellygraham7266]

Anyone who has a tendency to say Oh My God needs to be muzzled before filming these.

[@ut000bs]

Those people who ALWAYS feel the need to write a comment crying profusely about someone saying "Oh, my god!" at something tremendous few people ever get to see need to be handcuffed for awhile first.

[@pierre-emmanuelzufferey1470]

Everybody has is own god. Better else everybody would say it's mine, no mine, no no no it's mine.... In the vid there are at last two gods..

[@قرآنكريم-ذ1ر1ط]

Glory be to God, the Creator, the Creator of everything, and by His command is the measure of the entire universe, and no leaf or rock falls without His knowledge.

[@Water_Rat]

Great video but had to mute for all the omg’s

[@uteeller9884]

Where did it happend and with what consequences to the enviorement ?

[@troyottosen8722]

This happened outside of Seward Alaska, and what consequences to the environment? A crapload of ice dumped into this bay, then icebergs melt, duh!!! You think this is new up here in Alaska? Wake up!🤪😳

[@MonthlyFailsContentResearch]

Hey Jonathan Groom, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) :) Cheers, Felix

[@jonathangroom5005]

Hi Felix, sure. Feel free to send an email to [e-mail].

[@tonyreynolds5112]

Can y'all say rising sea levels?

[@isotropisch82]

No, its a natural process that has been happening forever, I'm no climate change denier, but this isn't part of it.

[@ut000bs]

@@isotropisch82 most people don't actually know what they're seeing.

[@cleopatra1633]

can you shut up and inform yourself?

[@quincywalker5681]

But yall missed that portal tho

[@rocket1380]

Fuck me backwards!!! They never show the wave reach the boat!?

[@BobABooey.]

Hope something cool is under that.

[@brunobembi5276]

can't wait for when all the ice is gone!

[@dmana3172]

I wish I can smash the top of it so all will fall in the water! :D

[@marceloriveiro]

lo único que saben es decir oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!

[@saveenvironmentearthleader419]

Climate change save nature

[@glitchnyrmatrix7296]

Pretty much a Nothing-Burger.

[@donaljewelry9152]

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@karavi2000]

If we are not able to see the tragedy in this.. I guess we have lost all sense of a human being. That is the saddest part.

[@isotropisch82]

There is literally nothing tragic about this, glaciers have been calving into the ocean forever, it is completely normal and natural. Read up about glaciers, they're fascinating, of course many are receding due to climate change, but this video isn't necessarily part of that.

[@ut000bs]

I completely disagree. You see a tragedy that doesn't even exist. THAT is the saddest part.

[@cleopatra1633]

go sit in your safe space and cry or inform yourself

[@gavinmcinally8442]

OMG. Stop it wiv the omg........

[@ЛюдмилаБедюх-г8э]

Чему радуетесь? ,а что потом?

[@ut000bs]

Промыть и повторить. Много раз.

[@marcus554]

I watch this, but I'm not smiling about.

[@ut000bs]

Why not?

[@KrikZ32]

Climate change is real and a problem, but this is natural behavior for glaciers and it's been recorded to happen as long as humans have been near them.

[@venetiaanortrup8514]

BACK UP

[@phapnui]

Yowtch

[@tomasviane3844]

Adios, relics from the ice age. Hello, global warming.

[@semperfidelis8386]

You "oh my God"ers need to SHADDUP. We wanna hear the natural sounds, and not your exclamations over ice cubes in the drink all the time.

[@almaira-uw4jv]

global warning.

[@geraldinejasnin7378]

not fun !! very very sad for the earth

[@cleopatra1633]

go on and cry in your safe place or inform yourself drama queen

[@ezeganzagan4173]

Ocean and Sea level will increase.

[@tamitami9275]

Nope.

[@ut000bs]

No, there is snow being deposited on the other end to flow down and fall off just like this. This is how glaciers work. This glacier is fine.

[@ezeganzagan4173]

@@ut000bs wait until most cities in the world will be flooded .learn how water evaporates , go back to grade one and when those water evaporates it falls small ice cubes? glad there are no fishes falling from the sky.

[@ut000bs]

@@ezeganzagan4173 I am a geophysicist. I know how glaciers work.

[@ezeganzagan4173]

@@ut000bs explain how the world was flooded in Noah's time.in one paragraph.