Is the Titanic Iceberg still around?

[cgarr]

What do you think, there is ice out there that's thousands of years old..

[Jagshund]

Could be. It's an interesting thought. Bet the paint transfer would long gone, though.

[BGCarrera32]

It's still out there on video, just watch the movie.

[ODDJOB UNO]

if IT IS in YOUR MIND...............then IT IS out there!

[Jagshund]

Everybody CLEAR YOUR MINDS!

[dentist90]

Seriously? I'm reasonably sure that chunks of glacier that break off and drift out to sea are doomed to melt within months to a few years, depending on their size and where the sea currents push them.
It takes thousands of years for the snow to compact down and form a glacier, then for the glacier to creep out to the coast and calve. Once the iceberg is floating it is the beginning of the end. The Titanic has outlasted the ice that sunk her.

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by dentist90

Seriously? I'm reasonably sure that chunks of glacier that break off and drift out to sea are doomed to melt within months to a few years, depending on their size and where the sea currents push them.
I.

I have a friend who goes up to Alaska regularly to fill up his boat with glacial ice. Pure, clear, glacial ice, that is so heavily compressed that it looks like a diamond. No impurities. No air bubbles.

You take an ice-cubed sized chunk of this stuff and put it into your scotch and it will stay there all night. And sometimes it's still there in the morning. So I would not be at all surprised if the glacial ice that sunk the Titanic is still floating around today.

[trekkor]

There was a little red paint on my ice cube in my Gin and Tonic...
Could it be?!?

KT

[porsche4life]

Originally Posted by Dottore

I have a friend who goes up to Alaska regularly to fill up his boat with glacial ice. Pure, clear, glacial ice, that is so heavily compressed that it looks like a diamond. No impurities. No air bubbles.

You take an ice-cubed sized chunk of this stuff and put it into your scotch and it will stay there all night. And sometimes it's still there in the morning. So I would not be at all surprised if the glacial ice that sunk the Titanic is still floating around today.

That sounds cheap....

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by trekkor

There was a little red paint on my ice cube in my Gin and Tonic...
Could it be?!?

KT

Red? Clearly off the funnel....

[Dottore]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

That sounds cheap....

Nope.

There's nothing cheap about my friend with the glacial ice.

Nothing at all.

[porsche4life]

Must be a mighty fine scotch that you pour over glacial ice....


Glacial Ice.... Is that where they get glacial acetic acid?

[Schumi]

If I remember correctly, the iceberg the Titanic hit was already pretty far south and continuing on that direction. They float out further and further south, and once they get past a certain point, they start melting fast.

yea.. here's where she lies:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=49%C2%B0+56'+49%22+W,+41%C2%B0+43'+32%22+N&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

[sc_rufctr]

That ice berg would be long gone but... From Kiss the girls...

Futican.

Sorry?

Fu-ti-can.
It's Japanese. You wouldn't know it.
It's in the Japanese character to do this sort of thing.
They build these special ships...
and sail them to the farthest navigable extremes...
and look for the bluest iceberg they can find...
and they tow it back.
And one is able to drink something...
that was last in liquid form about 30,000 years ago.
Expensively clean.

What does it taste like?

Like water.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Dottore

I have a friend who goes up to Alaska regularly to fill up his boat with glacial ice. Pure, clear, glacial ice, that is so heavily compressed that it looks like a diamond. No impurities. No air bubbles.

You take an ice-cubed sized chunk of this stuff and put it into your scotch and it will stay there all night. And sometimes it's still there in the morning. So I would not be at all surprised if the glacial ice that sunk the Titanic is still floating around today.

With a unicorn living on it. You can't be serious... since 1912?

Re: no impurities in glacial ice, that might be a bit naive to believe.
Mountain Goat: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Dottore

I have a friend who goes up to Alaska regularly to fill up his boat with glacial ice. Pure, clear, glacial ice, that is so heavily compressed that it looks like a diamond. No impurities. No air bubbles.

There's at least one company serving the ice sculpture trade by harvesting large chunks of glacial ice which they slice into slabs with polished faces through which the ice is inspected for impurities and bubbles.

You take an ice-cubed sized chunk of this stuff and put it into your scotch and it will stay there all night. And sometimes it's still there in the morning. So I would not be at all surprised if the glacial ice that sunk the Titanic is still floating around today.

I have a friend who goes up to Newfoundland every year to fill up his boat with "glacial ice chasers", tourists, many who are old tornado chasers looking for a slower paced hobby with no chance of being sucked up a vortex, who come to chase the glaciers.

My friend has a cantalope sized chunk of glacier ice on his coffee table that's been there for eight years. It was originally the size of a watermelon and melts so slowly that its water evaporates before it can run off and stain his table.

He tells his customers he believes the Titanic berg is still out there and on every trip he'll yell "THERE SHE IS! THAT'S THE BERG THAT SUNK THE TITANIC! OH YOU ICE COLD B!TCH!" and go charging off at it at full speed which invariably freaks out his customers who panic and get on his back, pleading with him to turn around, so he'll throw his boat into a full throttle U turn, which gets them off his back, flinging them about the deck and speed back to port, the whole while muttering in a fearful voice "OMG that was close!" He says the customers quietly keep their distance then disembark wordlessly and leave.

I don't know how he stays in busuiness. I asked and he shrugged, then told me that 80% of his business is return customers, the rest referals.

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[JJ 911SC]

Nope... use the last pieces last week

[s_morrison57]

Glacier ice is the best, had it in my drinks lots and some times the booze is gone and the ice is still there, like there for days. If you ever stand in front of a glacier you better be dressed warmly cause the cold radiates off it big time. We set the rig up about 1000 ft. away from a glacier that was about 3-400 ft. tall at the face, the wind that was blowing down off that ice was flippin cold, we had to wear jackets and long underware, the other drills that were away from the ice - the guys worn shorts and t-shirts. We tried permafrost rock in our drinks a few times too, the cold lasts for days as well.

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by s_morrison57

... If you ever stand in front of a glacier you better be dressed warmly cause the cold radiates off it big time...

Yeapers... During some Fishing Patrol in the 70's, we used to come across them around Newfoundland and you could feel the cold a mile away. Also we fire a few 3.5" rounds at one and some of them ricochet of it

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Dottore

You take an ice-cubed sized chunk of this stuff and put it into your scotch and it will stay there all night. And sometimes it's still there in the morning. So I would not be at all surprised if the glacial ice that sunk the Titanic is still floating around today.

Still, the ocean contains a considerable amount of energy that it could apply to melting a giant ice cube.

To, don't forget that the arctic ice cap is shrinking. I suspect that means it's melting at a not inconsiderable rate.

Originally Posted by s_morrison57

If you ever stand in front of a glacier you better be dressed warmly cause the cold radiates off it big time.

Technically, I don't think "cold" can radiate. What's actually happening is that the berg is sucking the heat out of the air, the water and you. You and the surroundings are radiating your heat at the berg.