How lucky that tourist was there with the camera...

Thank you for sharing this, my dear AsahinaKimi!

keep up the great posts, cause you are the best.

The part from underwater that comes rocketing up is usually about 10x the size of what's above water.

Yeah, and the part UNDER the water is HUGE.

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When we went to Alaska last July on the Norwegian Star it took us up the Misty Fiord to the Sawyer Glacier. Being 950 feet long the ship could only get about a mile from the glacier because the channel was too narrow to get any closer. . There were a few small tour boats that could get a lot closer. A month later I was on Youtube and there was a video of an event on the same day that the Star visited the glacier when a launch that was close to the glacier got bombarded by softball sized ice fragments when the glacier double calved unexpectedly. A lady supposedly fell down and broke her leg trying to avoid the ice debris flying past the vessel.

The Star was never that close. What was interesting is that when the captain turned the ship 180 degrees there was only 75 foot clearance on each end. It was a fascinating trip.

Thanks for posting. Quite a view. Sometimes iceberg turn events can send quite a wave.

This is incredible! Looks like it's melting. I would have been scared to death... Thanks for posting!