Iceberg A23a - Drone footage of the largest iceberg on earth, eroding in the Southern Ocean.

The enormous tabular iceberg A23a is currently drifting north from Antarctica. Here is raw footage from our encounter in the Southern Ocean.
This tabular iceberg is nearly 4000km2, is up to 400m thick and weighs just short of 1 trillion tonnes. It is 40 nautical miles long and twice the size of greater London. Simply massive!
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[@KimRinehart]

I found this absolutely majestic yet frightening!!! The juxtaposition of the blue against the deep dark salt water gave me goosebumps. What a fantastic job you have done capturing this!!!

[@richardsidey]

Thank you.

[@bcbeasters]

@@richardsidey If you were able to fly under some of those arches maybe you could get Red Bull to sponsor you! 😎👍

[@bcbeasters]

@@richardsidey I think a ton of people would tune into watching drones doing risky close-range maneuvers around icebergs as a sport competition... I know I would, it would be wicked cool! 😏

[@bcbeasters]

@@richardsidey It could also be an awesome way to raise awareness of the melting polar caps... 🥺

[@pinkyhandle]

What a majestic sight!, the technology to capture something like this id extraordinary !. Thanks for all you do 😊

[@user-hp8it3mm6p]

Richard you should contact a musician called E-Mantra and ask for his permission to use his "Silence II" album on one of your next videos. He's based in Romania and also has some beautiful drone shots of the Romanian wilderness.

[@bluestarshipace9530]

You are lucky. The day I was there was so overcast and foggy I could barely see any color. Thank you for this clear video.

[@chaz5229]

The ice UNDER the water is beautiful, fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Watching this made me cold....BRRRRRRRRRR!!! Freezy Pop anyone?!

[@mychellevanschaick4321]

yes please... can I have an orange one...

[@cchawk6280]

I’d love to see a drone fly over the surface to see what is in the other side of this. If it broke off there has to be another side. Curioser and Curioser. Not sure I spelled that correctly 😊

[@suckered4diecast]

That's some spectacular video! thanks for sharing

[@richardsidey]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@brookejollet4107]

We were there around that time….amazing. It was foggy though, this is amazing footage. Thank you!

[@juice_lime5114]

This thing is so large that you can't even see the end of it on the horizon.

[@_YourHigherSelf]

awesome! we need more footage like this of that beautiful spot of the world.

[@GBlunted]

I wanna see what the iceberg looks like under the water!! I bet that it looks pretty freaking 🆒! 😎

[@MTerrance]

I keep hoping for something to come sailing out of those ice caves - say a Viking ship or a WWII era submarine...

[@doveletters1]

Me too 😂

[@mysavescgf2640]

Viking submarine!

[@aprilsmith3683]

Breathtaking ice sculpture... The colours are magnificent... Water carving architectural wonders... 🇿🇦

[@jasonnieuwenhuis7995]

Really amazing! So fascinating!

[@priyanjanabagga]

wow, wonderful, thank you to the whole team for sharing this, God Bless You

[@mysavescgf2640]

Wow-amazing footage!

[@jmas2312]

Absolutely spectacular.

[@wayneamills4867]

I was there on the 20/01/24 with Chimu on the Ocean Endeavour. Simply awesome to sea. Who were you with?

[@KenshinPhoenix]

Prime real estate, cool breezes with an ocean view!

[@GRogers61]

Was this video taken from the Sapphire Princess and if so where can I see the other videos you took during that cruise? I was on that cruise, what a fantastic experience!

[@richardsidey]

No it wasn’t.

[@frank4731]

Daaang! Now that's creepy cool!!

[@johncogan8689]

This broke away in 1986 and its still massive

[@user-zg8ke5bn1f]

Can you imagine how many cocktails you could add ice to, mmmm tastey treat !

[@ghostsauce1443]

To salty 🧂 Lol

[@bec7839]

actually it has been proven "ice worms" live in the ice.

[@rui569]

You should get a 4K camera.

[@societydwellingifd8080]

*_why don't they ever fly over the whole thing to show us whats on the other side of it?!?_*

[@richardsidey]

Because it’s 20 - 40 nautical miles wide and way out of reach of a Mavic drone. Easier to sail around the iceberg, and it looks more-or-less the same all the way around.

[@edineiherciliodias7007]

Fantástico 🇧🇷🇧🇷❤

[@jmspegel]

What is the reason of the different colored water?

[@jordifontsartus6496]

Que maco l'iceberg!! 👏👏🏼

[@LotsofStuffYT]

It's the size that matters.

[@russellking9762]

thats what she said

[@user-qc9fl3ff8b]

Wow!..Humans were never meant to see this….Transfixing and foreboding yet beautiful…Brain is in vexed mode…

[@wirunp1709]

Why is the water have a difference color?

[@susannechakan4939]

Thank you for this amazing video. 💙 What I really want to see is an aerial view of the glacier in total. Not just one side. Is this glacier floating in the water or is it the actual land mass of Antarctica? Something must be on the other side.

[@craigcorlissjr9786]

The Iceberg calved in 1986, it was promptly grounded on the seabed. It is currently about 1,500 square miles, about the size of Rhode Island. The iceberg began to move in 2020. It is currently in the Weddell Sea.

[@T.Sumpter]

Wonder what's frozen beneath all that ice 🤔. There has to be at least 1 great find!

[@bertus161057]

Beautiful and scary

[@unboxingt8445]

Umm imagine what could be frozen in there… a block of ice bigger than RI from 1,000s of years ago. I have a felling this will be a big topic in the coming years 😬🤐

[@MARYANNE269]

This is fascinating and worrying at the same time.. to witness such a sight... The inhabited low level islands are going to suffer first.. 😢

[@curlyrooster118]

From what?

[@carolined5923]

Theres a video here on KZbin from 6 years ago mamoth iceberg dwarfs Canadian town.. its nothing new.. more worrying is the plastic waste in the ocean its not natural.

[@pieterdeboer5361]

With no ice cooling down the planet, it surly get hott on this planet. With that said it will sure rain a lot more due climit chance. And all that extra water there no way to get rid off.

[@ir5047]

I found in study this two time bigger than greater Landon 😨

[@nordsun]

The blue colour right in front the ice is amazing! Does anybody know what gives the water its blue colour?

[@clentistwoud]

Water IS blue

[@sohanyadav1978]

Its underwater part of iceberg if you see carefully.

[@loragunning5394]

water is not blue, it's clear but appears to be blue from the sky reflecting in it. @@clentistwoud

[@cheriesnakedancer3293]

@@clentistwoud no, it's not!The blue is the reflection of the blue sky.

[@courtneykinney4686]

Blue is a longer wavelength of light, one of the last to be lost in water, so it's blue that we see reflected back.

[@ThomasS-jf9kf]

It would be nice if an adult person could stand near the edge of the ice, just to get a sense of scale. It's hard to gauge the height of the glacier above water.

[@richardsidey]

Yep it would help. We gauged it to be around 30-40 metres above the surface and scientists say 400m thick at the deepest point.

[@stevenherrold5955]

THAT IS ONE BIG ICE CUBE only 1 10'th of total mass above the surface of the water

[@bonniejohn6766]

wow the ice wall

[@MM180.9]

Superman where are you 😢

[@robbmaier368]

If it was a problem we would have seen more on this

[@Chris-qb2iu]

Ive never seen this on google maps

[@societydwellingifd8080]

*_I WANT TO VISIT THAT PLACE SO BAD JUST TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT CUZ THERES SO MANY PICS AND VIDS THAT MAKE IT HARD TO BELIEVE ITS REAL._*

[@jennarrator]

Where is it now??? Causing severe weather in Southern Africa, bringing more penguins to Cape Town

[@bec7839]

what is the actual height and how deep does it go?? How long will it take to melt down all way I wonder.

[@richardsidey]

All your answers are here www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67986443

[@Sandi.-wl6hz]

Looks like some kinda of pattern under it

[@user-og9lg9fk6i]

Only one side b shown,really

[@user-pt8pd7ig2h]

Can couse of gigh lovel of water in to the ocean bacame so dangerous

[@stevenn7188]

something in there

[@yk-mp7bk]

It's not a thing to be happy about. It's catastrophic!

[@chrisriggio3750]

will this cause the movie the day after tomorrow to become a reality since all that fresh water could desal the ocean enough to disrupt the warm currents that flow through the oceans?????

[@whiteofsoul]

The climate will change, but not as dramatically as shown in the film. Processes are slow by human standards. Maybe we will see large floods of land in old age.

[@smithjohn647]

Next, when all that mass becomes liquid and adds to the surf and tidal surges what will become of the coastal homes? How will the gravity of the moon be affected when all that liquid mass reaches the equator? The closer a23a floats to the equator the faster it will melt, the faster it melts the more water the moons gravity will have to pull, then what? Will the high tides rise even more and people not allowed to swim during certain points of the day and night? Will the swells in the ocean become too great for ships to travers? Why cant we see what is happening to the sub surface of the iceberg?

[@clentistwoud]

Nothing. 90% of that mass is already in the water, so nothing will change.

[@chrisdekock8864]

Dude, the temp will shift in the local area, eg if it couldve come to the Bahamas quickly, change the ocean gyres, but the water displacement will not affect any shoreline

[@NaveenKumar-sx8fw]

Sir one ? why antartica is covered with iceberg total antartica land ? Some type of technology forming iceberg ☃️

[@richardsidey]

Yep it’s called snow ❄️

[@eduardocontreras7115]

It's coming to USA in the summer by the of Christmas it will be here

[@markissboi3583]

Australia claims ownership of more than 42 per cent of the Antarctic continent, hope it drifts right to vic its dam hot this week 37cel + +

[@eat_ze_bugs]

More real estate for investors.

[@GX-th8is]

💁‍♂️ Is it capable of craving through an island? How do ships, boats and tankers intended on manuvering it? 🛳️🤷‍♂️🤔🧐

[@richardsidey]

Just go around it. It’s ‘only’ 40NM wide.

[@GX-th8is]

@@richardsidey 🤣👍

[@adamrose6194]

Only way we can stop the melting is more taxes

[@doveletters1]

It's there life on it?

[@richardsidey]

Not on it but there is all around it - whales & seabirds

[@micheleromaine7782]

HAPPY FEET!

[@user-um7tw6kx4r6]

What's the point in it being drone footage if we can't get a view of the whole thing????

[@j.jarvis7460]

the vastness has a similar vibe to an empty Minecraft server. 0:51

[@Muddslinger0415]

We are so fucked 3degree Celsius by 2040 6degree Celsius by 2100 extinction of all mammals

[@hellsbells6323]

White cliffs of dover.

[@cosstaylitt7012]

It surrounds the earth its the ice wall

[@richardsidey]

Haha

[@bbillbill3919]

@@richardsidey I sat here and read all the comments waiting for an Ice Wall comment, surprised me that it took so long great footage. A23a still in the news today 05/08 /24

[@russellking9762]

under the law of salvage...(i'm probably wrong) couldn't someone attach a rope to this and claim it as theirs?....

[@richardsidey]

Actually Australia did a feasibility study of towing an iceberg for freshwater use a decade ago - figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Iceberg_water_transportation_from_Antarctica_to_Australia/23206868

[@russellking9762]

@@richardsidey Actually i'm from L.J Hooker and wanted to sell it as real estate

[@antoinettesepulveda811]

Wow,That is crazy..😮❤😊

[@yzuaY]

saw this iceberg on the ISS video stream and looked for it in NASA's weather images. It's gigantic 59°30'39"S, 47°50'42"W kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXqQfnp9ocuJoLM

[@bhekulwandlempofu4545]

Alien on the move, be careful with this, it's actually heading for disaster

[@zibbie]

Isn't it possible to get the drone higher, for a birds view out of the sky? Maybe a person can see what is going on on that ice. Do they know how deep it goes under water

[@richardsidey]

Large icebergs can create their own weather and often have fog over them, which we encountered this day. So any higher and the drone would go into the fog and see nothing.

[@richardsidey]

Average depth is about 280m with max depth of 400m at one end.

[@lilihillis1449]

There's enough water in this berg to rise global sea level 3ft...Thwaits Glacier ice shelf is bigger holding another 6ft...it also breaking off Now too....move from any coast.

[@clentistwoud]

Nope. It’s already in the water so the mass has already been displaced. When this iceberg fully melts, nothing will change.

[@kylecrockett8096]

You're not thinking about how big the ocean is buddy

[@ivandagr857]

@@clentistwoudwhat about the ice above the surface not displacing the water?

[@jefferyharris4066]

🐕💚🍕 dogs like pizza 🤠 I want to camp out there and explore 🤔 get some dogs and pizza and beer 🍺 yeah...

[@ssswiiing]

@@clentistwoudthe ice floating on top?

[@lynisathome222]

I keep wondering why, when we know so little about all the water, icebergs etc on earth, someone like Elon Musk keeps focusing effort and resources into space. Isn't it time someone stepped up to actually learn and then educate us about the unknown depths of the planet we live on?

[@jamesharris4432]

When the ice caps melted back we had bigger im sure there may have been bigger ! But no one was around to see them , the ones that were just couldn’t write down “ look at the size of that iceberg” 🤷🏻‍♂️ maybe Gods going to float it down to block Putins ports 😂

[@richardsidey]

Iceberg B15 which broke off in 2002 was far larger than this one.

[@creativitycell]

Yep, when that all melts 1000s of islands are gonna dissappear, and we get more social media vids of dumb peoples houses on cliff edges crumblig into the sea n rivers that just overflowed during a flash flood next year! 😂

[@eduardocontreras7115]

I see all people talk really dumb but this is reality and it's very scary of wat is goin to happen to our planet keep talking dumb but the truth that awaits us disaster

[@alphaomega154]

talk about ice, i have a simple method to discern intellectual humans with those who arent. by their notion of what symbolize "ice". the unintellectuals will liken ice to "winter". of course the intellectual ones KNOW that ice has nothing to do with seasons. in some region of the planet, ice is all spring and summer. and blizzards could happens in summer. also the structural shape of a frozen snowflake. the unintellectuals will relate the hexagonal sapes with the symbol of winter. while the intellectuals again KNOW it is just the pattern of a frozen liquid. of any kind. its the most basic energy radiation pattern from an atom. even carbons exhibits the same shape. this is just a simple method to measure how many people in the world that are actually intellect. and do you know, that winter in some region of the planet could means DRY DROUGHT? my ice is no winter ice.

[@ayxanaliyev6554]

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[@ayxanaliyev6554]

ALLAHU AKBER - yəni ALLAH ƏN BÖYÜKDÜR ! hər nə yaratmışsa gözəl yaratmış və anlamlı yaratmışdır . 🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿 AZERBAYCAN dan hörmətlər !.

[@user-pi5jw4nj3s]

Don't talk so loose

[@Tom-Flanks]

Allahu akbar

[@PacoOtis]

Pitiful that you do not provide any educational commentary! This is a rather awful format. Did an adult review this video prior to release?

[@richardsidey]

Pitiful attempt at trolling

[@markmajor2395]

THIS IS WHAT SUBLIMATION LOOKS LIKE. ITS NOT ICEBERG CARVING, ITS ICE EVAPORATING THATS ABOVE THE WATERLINE.

[@robertmanella528]

To bad Amazon can't send it to Washington d.c. or new York city 😊😊😊😊