Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Amazing photograph...

[Lucas Gray <lgray@tera.engr.mun.ca>]

I'm in newfoundland right now, and yes it is a fake, I think the largest
recored ice berg on record is ONLY 7 million tons, not 300. Also we have
188 days of for a year, so the clear skies in the picture is also a
joke. as for towing, the rigs here are in about 400 feet of water, so most
big iceburgs ground out and get stuck, so you don't have to worry about
them, untill that get unstuck. As for towing them, well they don't really,
they can deflect an iceburgs course about 1 or 2 degrees if you call that
towing. They take a nylon rope about a kilometer long and wrap it once
around the berg and then tow. There is also a limit to how hard they can
two because if they pull to hard they just roll the iceburg....As the
visibility underwater never gets better than 40 ft here. 

lucas
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Adam Harvey wrote:

> The website mentions towing these things away from the drill rigs as a never
> ending task.  That got me thinking.  How the hell do they "tow" them away?
> That is a huge mass to move, assuming the estimate is correct.  Any ideas on
> how they do this?  I think maybe pushing it would be easier, but even with
> two or three tugs it still seems just about impossible.  It seems like one
> would need an armada of tugs even to build up the slightest amount of
> momentum.
> 
> Adam
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> From: "Michael Holt" <mholt@richmond.edu>
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> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Amazing photograph...
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> >
> > ... at http://www.watman.clara.co.uk/iceberg.html.
> >
> > Don't submerge near this, folks, even if you are at home.
> >
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