Arctic Glacier collapses . Too close for comfort
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2013
- Steve Leonard and Arctic expert Jason Roberts looking for Polar bears .
Glacier calving too close for comfort
From the programme Incredible Journeys .
Director - Martin Hughes Games
Photography - Sam Gracey
Sound - Jake - Drake-Brockman
Researcher - Giles Badger 
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That was the "We almost just died laugh"
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Yep, can confirm. Not trying to sound like a badass at all, but I’ve been in a couple of these sticky situations before and there’s nothing more genuine and nervous and gut wrenching and happy than that kind of laugh. It’s a weird feeling. Funny yet terrifying all the same. It’s like a laugh specifically timed by your brain and body to hold back a bit of vomit that you would otherwise choke up lol.. oh man being young was fun I can tell you that much. Where has the time gone..? These guys got lucky. But I would rather be lucky than good ANY day fam and you can bet on that!! This video doesn’t do justice to just HOW CLOSE they came to more than likely dying by at the very least drowning and hyperthermia but more than likely being crushed by that huge glacier calving. Good shit camera man! Holdin’ er steady while ice missiles hit the damn water around your little tin can boat like bullets lol WHAT A UNIT. I wanna by that man (all of them for that matter) a round of shots and a beer or two.
1:51 I love genuine a smile
@@jordannewsom4578 it can be badass but still it's something alot of us go through bro. had a good 2-3ft slip free climbing as a handhold gave out on me and was barley able to hook myself on a little ledge on the way down. it woulda been another 40feet if I failed but still the second I got my hold secure again I was laughing like crazy. it's a pretty weird reaction, relief mostly I think.
@@jordannewsom4578
Your post was great, I can see you truly envied those guys.
I do too to a point, I'm a 61 year old woman, my adventures take me all over the Canadian wilderness in my RV, by myself, with my dog.
The wilds of my province British Columbia and of the Yukon are second to none!
I've had "fun" moments...🥰
Isabelle Victoria British Columbia
I love how they were JUST under that. Like a minute prior, with the engine not working.
They're idiots
@@THE______TRUTH you are an idiot
if they would have showed up a little later they very well could have died
They know you love it. That's why they staged it.
2003 duchieu at least he doesnt drive boats next to a fuckin unstable glacier
Man: “That whole front is going to give out at some point”
Arctic cliff: *”I have been summoned”*
Mate that aint anything close as summoning compared to this one at 4:29 ruclips.net/video/mSUzSfy-UAQ/видео.html
Having been a mile from a glacier as it calved multiple times, I learned very quickly that calving isn't always above the water. A lot of the times it is hundred's of feet below the surface of the water and if you happen to be parked or trolling with a boat right up close to a glacier, there is little warning when it surfaces right bellow your small boat and it capsizes you into freezing waters.
Oh WOW!! I bet your nerves get a little frazzled if you see bubbles or small chunks making an entrance on the surface!!! GEEEZZZZ I"m a scuba diver but I gotta say I still get the heebie geebies when sea weed touches me!!! LOL
Damn! I felt as though I've been seeing it happening in front of me.
But, the question is, why go there and risking it? Are you ready for death? 🤔
You are dam right: ruclips.net/video/LFBnmNpz_RI/видео.html
good to know
Cameraman did a really great job holding it still despite the danger. Salute
Maybe he froze tho
so much steady. it looked like it was pulled out of some movie LOOLL
2:36 squeak
@Rhys Bird please explain
No cameraman just mounted a GoPro at the bow lol
That cameramen deserves a raise for keeping that camera steady even when he could have died. Salute
Dan Trebune “how dare you question man made climate change” GRETA🤭🤣
@basant vimal sharma I think the vibrations from the boat couldve been enough to cause the ice to fall.
Yes he deserves a raise for doing his job
@basant vimal sharma if they set dynamite it would have been an explosion. Not pieces falling off lol
I honestly think camera-men/women in many cases deserve so much credit, but sometimes it's such a weird situation.
I remember (hauntingly) that there was a documentary involving female genital mutilation and I'll keep this short, so I don't have to think about it for too long.
But basically, you saw it happening (partially off camera) to a girl aged 7. I remember her screaming and trying to wriggle herself out of the arms of her parents.
And the camera focused on her crying face and if I had been the cameraman, there's no way I would've calmly been able to report and show the footage.
I would've thrown the camera on the floor and either attacked the mother, father, "doctor" or anyone nearby. I would've vomited, cried, screamed, god knows what.
I mean...I'm assuming as a cameraman/woman you try to detach yourself from the feelings or you try to look at it...as if through binoculars.
But I would be surprised if the man/woman filming that documentary, doesn't have nightmares at night, about the screaming. It still haunts me and I wasn't even there.
Straight out of a movie, engine cuts out, moments after getting their engine back on the ice berg starts to break a little bit. There's a moment of silence before you hear huge deep crumbling and then the whole glacier starts to fall apart. The driver reacts quickly stepping on the gas as they narrowly dodge ice chunks flying around them. Amazing
We all appreciate your narrative. We were confused AF until then
it is a made up scene :D don't be naive
Didn't know drivers could step on the gas on boats. Learn something new every day.
@@jb7965 indeed, there was one day in kindergarten where the teacher covered the topic "expressions." It was quite informative
its a good example of how cameras and a hype man can lead to people making very regrettable decisions
Brown jacket guy: completely unphased ice cold gangsta at the wheel
Camera man: so emotionally and physically steady he may actually be a robot
Orange jacket guy: absolutely loving every moment of death by more ways than I can count on one hand
Everyone watching at home: 😬😬😬😱😱😱😱
The helmsman needs the pixelated black gangsta sunglasses superimposed on him.
When you are used to keeping the camera on the subject, that's what you do. I used to film professional skateboarders falling on their faces, and bouncing off hand rails. The initial instinct is to recoil, like you see in so many fail videos but after you do it for a while, you just get used to it. I have filmed a bunch of people getting seriously hurt, and even someone dying. After you do it long enough, you don't even have to think about it. You instinctively hold the camera still and on the subject no matter what.
You just made my whole week with that hilarious comment!!!!! LMAO!
“That whole front is gonna go at some point”
10 seconds later
First, it started falling; then, it fell.
@@richardkey4289 First, you were a douche; then you were a shit stain. Stop trolling.
*Checkpoint reached*
Like a small meteor shower
You wanna see some real speeeed?
No professional in the world with a clear mind would go that near to a glacier under any circumstance
lollYpoppY234 lol nerd
Yeah those people are obviously idiots. And they barely recognize the danger they were just in. "A bit too close to comfort". Don't make me laugh.
@@Labroidas a bit to close to comfort
Their comfort
There are professionals that are adrenaline junkies.
on a tiny ass little dingy
I love how the cameraman is in just as much imminent danger as the other two, but he holds the camera steady, because you _gotta get the fuckin' shot, boys._
The sound of the ice cracking is hauntingly beautiful.
1:35 Those deep cracking, breaking sounds. Haunting.
It's clearly a sound effect. It's pretty common for this kind of documentaries.
Unit no thats what the glacier sounds like man thats close to 10 tonnes of ice cracking at the same time in an open ocean, the sound wouldve echoed and been loud as fuck
@@BADVlBES OH DEAR LORD theyre so guttural and scary. i would SHIT myself if I heard that. I wish I could feel how that sound resonated thru the water
I used to live far in the Canadian north and every spring when ice would start cracking on the river you could hear it pretty much all around town.
I like your profile pic. I used to have that profile picture too on whatsapp :)
The Bevis and Butthead of glacier watchers
LOL, yes !!
I'm cornholio need glaciers for my bunghole.
Heh heh heh heh that was KOOLLL!!!
When you slow this down to .25x speed, you really appreciate how fast that guy's reaction time was and how lucky they were!
Still one of the greatest videos on RUclips. You crazy blokes! Hold my beer and watch this! Driver of this boat is an absolute legend!
2:26 The flying chunk of ice on the right side of the shot, so close could have killed one of them easily
even sounds deadly lmao
If it had hit the wrong spot maybe... Humans aren't that fragile.
exactly..scary as hell..and even before he started the boat on time as well when he had troubles to start it
Guy in orange is about a meter from death - if that block hits him in the head/neck its goodnight
@@willianyano8596 agreed. wounded certainly, dead, no.
Let's just say that if their engine had stayed dead, they would have joined it shortly thereafter.
Major props to that impeccable peel off timing
I just luuuuuv seeing a couple of good-natured larrikins having fun. Yeah, maybe "a little too close for comfort," but what a hoot. Loved it.
thats some indiana jones shit right there
Impulsegt1 no shit!
Hell of a camera catch!
The guy on the left is Dwight Schrute on his winter vacation
thank god I'm not alone in thinking this
I was searching for this comment ahaha
Same lmao
😂 spot on
The look on the pilot's face when he guns it lmao! He got real serious for like 4 seconds!
Considering he almost got them swamped, injured, or killed, yeah.
He had that Gretna look haha
You could hear it cracking before it came down and they were still too mesmerized to get the hell out of there.
"Send word to the Firelord immediately, the Avatar has returned."
I love you. XD
These guys definitely deserve an honorary Darwin Award.
Know almost nothing about calving glacial ice. Even so, after 24 yrs in the fire service I know they were in the wrong place.
A Darwin Participation Trophy at the very least!
A for effort!
It feels exactly like one of those survival horror games where you gain control after a big explosion behind you and you have to control the vehicle and avoid debris :D
Orange jacket guy was absolutely loving every moment of facing death by more ways than I can even count on one hand
Imagine in geological terms how long that ice has been locked away and slowly advancing to the sea and how in an instant it suddenly begins moving faster than it ever has before, plunging into the ocean. Awesome and humbling.
Go to bed, Greta
@@MB-oc1nw Whatever that means dick
@@MB-oc1nw got to bed, angry boy
How about the light from the sun traveling through space zooming along on its way to earth only to be stopped at the last second by your shadow?
Curiosity killed the cat.....
...but satisfaction brought it back.
And grammar killed almost every man trying to perfect a new language..me included.
killed*
BallisticCatz doesn’t matter.
Stupid is as stupid does. Risking it all for a RUclips shot is .................. (you fill in the blank)
No CGI, just pure natural filmed effects...
Amazing footage 👏 🙌 👌
I Love the man driving the boat expression when he looked back and saw the glacier splashing into the water... Great flight response
"Oh my hat as they would say".
No one says that.
lmao, I have never heard or read about anyone saying that.
I thought I heard him say that but I thought I heard wrong😂
Lmaoo never heard of it
I'm not even British or Australian or whatever this dude is, but I've heard that.
It's just a more polite way to say OMG. Some folks see that as taking the name in vain.
💀
That was laughter from having the hell scared out of you. I've known that kind of fear before and laughter that comes from cheating injury or death.
This is awesome! Thank you
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The 'I'm still alive!' laugh.
Copied
1:50 that moment when you're truly multitasking: laughing, praying, and shitting your thermal onsies..
😁😁
I love how they're laughing when they literally almost died.
Great moment! Cameraman steady! All calm.
dat camera man on point!!! almost flinched away but kept shooting like a boss
Good one! thanks for that comment! I was just thinking the same. he is the One with the big balls
In every man's life, he'll have 10 seconds of a "Michael Bay" disaster moment.
EVERY? The world won't be able to sustain that.
That might be true, I had mine during one of my skydives and I'm not kidding.
cqtaylor I'm still waiting on mine
I had mine when my friend’s gas fireplace blew up behind me, leaving part of his house without the chimney, and a small fireball.
Ive had several in my life.
Richard Dreyfuss: We're going to need a bigger boat.
The cameraman is always immortal even if floor is lava.
If they had been hit by one of those boulders that went right by their boat...
doesn't seem like a great place to be hanging out
Now that would be the fun thing to watch.
if it would have even just hit the boat for christ sake!
It's GCI bro... those boulders could never fly like that on a flat earth.
for sure man you can tell by the angle of the flat that thats all CGI. there is no way a boulder would act like that on a flat earth.
Just trying to imagine how excited the cameraman probably was right after getting such a shot.
Wow! Great job getting that engine started! 😮
"I don't want that in my boat."
I dont want that in my SKULL.
They won't be laughing when the white walkers can get through.
dazhibernian PLS NO! 😂
Dylan N damn dude i enjoyed the rant but you should stop doing amphetamines
Dylan N... So we know what you think of humans but you didn't say what you thought of the video?
Dylan N.. Before or after I smoke my morning bowl??
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"Where have you been?"
"Oh, just chillin"
RobertDeville "oh? Where sis you go?"
"just a little cruise on the ocean"
1:50 If I have ever heard nervous laughter at its most nervous, this was it.
The look of the driver as he turns and immediately guns the engine is the look of a man who knows what death is behind them
Is it me or does the boat driver remind you of Dwight from The Office.
***** It is him!
foxtrot789 I don't know if it's him or not... BUT he sure drives that boat like Dwight!
foxtrot789 Missing the parted hair. The parted hair is everything. Everything.
foxtrot789 THIS is why I come to the comments LOL. yes absolutely.
Fact: Glaciar bears are strongest bears.
Dude... that ice cracking sound.
I've never heard something so simultaneously terrifying and... terrifying...
I know eh? It sounded just like a tree cracking in half
Wow great visual and sound
Wow !. Awesome catch ! 👍
If you look at 2:24-2:27 carefully, that Ice chunk was fast enough to probally kill or knock out the guy in the right... They were quite lucky to be honest.
CryptPixel true
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Firstly they were stupid. Glacial calving and erosion is a very underestimated natural phenomena in which huge amounts of energy could be discharged in very short time with little or no warning. I wouldn't come even 1km close to those bergs as a huge overturn can cause a tsunami that can swamp the boat. You want close-up footage? Use drones ffs.
@Carol Harris
Uh, ice technically is a rock.
That rock was probably traveling close to 200mph. It sounded hypersonic.
2:26 dude almost got his head taken off by that piece of ice like 3 feet from his head
yep. seen that. would have been lights out.
Reminds me of that video of a controlled demolition where onlookers are standing by and u see a rock get shot from the destruction all the way to the cameraman. Its a long way and only takes .5 second to get to them. Somehow misses the whole crowd.
I think you may be right about that!!
right
@Peder Hansen Could have taken him out and caused a concussion though.
What a badass video of these two guys
I'm just surprised they got so lucky that the big chunks of ice just missed the boat.
1:57
Literally seconds after avoiding certain death
Dude: “ I CaN TaStE SaLT watER IN mY moUTh! “
Marko P. I really felt that
It means when these shits melt a lotta people be tasting, breathing and drowning in salt water
@@thelolmaster1997
Glacier water isn't salty, though.
😕
He meant death.
Under the ice wall doest seem like the best place to.. chill out.
Ughhhhh
Thndrkunt haha that was so shit it was brilliant!!
GOOD ONE!
Matt Marsh Feel like throwing a tomato at him?
I see what you did there! 🙃 😆 😉 😋
You are very fortunate that the engine didn't die...
Thanks for the vicariously terrifying close call🥶!!!
That was an awesome video!
"That whole front is going to go at some point" reaches the same level of inevitability as "Oh, that will never happen!"
Combined with 'our engine just malfunctioned', it would have been plain rude of the glacier not to play along.
1:30 You can hear Santa Claus laughing!
Hahaha, you can!!
HE'S REAL
Lol
Just watched that part. Hilarious!
I wish he was real :(
Incredible!!
Pieces flying over their heads! Must've been AMAZING!!!
I remember this from a couple of years ago. What I remember most is the laughter once they guys realise they are safe. I love this about humanity: laughing in the face of death. An animal would just run off and be messed up for a bit then go back to eating grass.
Actually. kinda stupid position for an "Arctic expert" to put people into.
Insane people do insane things
Bright people do wise things.
@@David-jh8mp ...sometimes!
@@johngaudet6316 ...sometimes
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It was the maniacal laugh as he picks junks of glacier off of his head for me.
That was awesome, I can feel the joy haha.
1:57
Scientist " I can taste salt water in my mouth "
Coxwain " I can feel shit in my pants "
"I can taste salt water in my mouth"
No, my friend, that's glacier spunk. Enjoy.
Cheers mate
YOU CAN HAVE IT. BREEDERS SO ONE SIDED.
How has such a shocking joke got so many likes, who the fuck likes this shit 😂
Tom Jordan someone’s jealous...
john boss Yeah says the guy that liked his own comment...
Lol whatever
Damn those flying ice chunks were scary. Almost hit the guy in orange as they sped off
I like how they just say right next to it while it was breaking, knowing what was about to happen, but not caring at all.
1:51
The classic "DUDE, WE ALMOST DIED!" laugh.
lmao
Dude in boat: That whole front is gonna go at some point
That Whole Front: DON'T MIND IF I DOOOOOOO
Craziness aside, the creeking noise that made as it split was so satisfying
There's something about that moment at 1:50 that warms my heart. Two fully grown males with real-life responsibilities briefly turned back into excitable children!
That’s less “yay what a great time!” And more “holy FUCK we almost died!”
Yeah, I don't think they would be laughing so hard if the engine didn't restart.
The cameraman deserves an award for not flinching as ice blocks shoot at him.
I LOVE the cackling once they've gotten away 😂😂
Lol, I love the boylike smile that appeared on the drivers face when it became apparent that they weren’t going to die. Like “That was some shit, eh?”
Dumb nuts in boat: Hey Glacier, we're down here!
Glacier: OK, you asked for it!
Dumb nuts in boat: I want to do that again!
Love the nervous laughter afterwards... Man you guys were *LUCKY!!* Wow!!
One thing I can tell you is, how those laughters can turned into screams of horror, in a matter of seconds. Wait until that engine fails again, when another big chunk of ice collapses.😱
Sometimes we laugh in lieu of shitting ourselves. Great video.
*almost dies*
*literally laughs*
Which is a very normal reaction, an excellent stress relief valve. Some people laugh, others cry but the reason is the same.
They were so close to death.
yea..and so near stupidity
If that wasn't staged and was actually genuinely dangerous then the people involved need to explain themselves.
@@Chris3141592 The flying shards of ice could had easily killed them if they had hit them. They were lucky for sure.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!"
@Harry Baals .... in which case the production team should be prosecuted for gross negligence.
You'll never see anything so cool and so scary at the same time
Some people don’t seem to acknowledge or recognise disasterously situations , and these brave souls normally scrape by , thank god because of the wonderful video that produced, an ignorant kiwi
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1:37 THAT sound that tells you something is about to go wrong. Amazing video, thx for sharing. You guys have balls, I would never get near anything like it. My safety rule for my boring life, be twice as far away from the height of a thing that can drop on you. This does not include Apples.
Yeah that doesn't sound good at all.
"Our next Darwin Award nominee: The people who piloted their boat under the calving end of a glacier!"
Insert Jeff Goldblum repeating " must go faster"
I love how the captains get outta there instinct just took over sooo smoothly! And props to the camera operator for keeping it in frame like a boss!
Yes and also you could see his nuts all the way to his cheeks LOL....😂
*engine not working*
Ice: I see you have chosen, death
I love this video
Almost one of those "my curiosity is finally going to kill me" moments ...