This iceberg, which has the name A23a, is currently the largest in the world, although it is expected that a larger one will break in the coming years. It is the size of the island of Mallorca, at least if it has not lost a piece because The thing is now, what is news is that he is sailing through the Southern Ocean again, he is free.
And it has been literally stuck for decades on the seabed and more recently it spent years spinning around on itself, in those images of the video that covers this entire period of time, there is a period where you can see that it is spinning, it is because it got stuck , hooked onto an underwater mountain and was circling around that mountain.
Before it was also stuck in the north of the Hanged Islands, the iceberg is huge and it gets stuck, it had separated from the Filchner ice shelf in Antarctica in 1986, it was anchored for a time in the Wendel Sea and then it started a trip north in 2020.
This underwater mountain where it was very curious is called Taylor's column and they consider it a very curious oceanographic phenomenon, because in that area the water rotates on a seamount and ends up trapping the objects in that place, that is, if you were shipwrecked in A boat could stay spinning in that area forever, although the normal thing is that you freeze to death first.
Right now this iceberg is going north, it is assumed that as soon as it reaches more or less towards the island of South Georgia or San Pedro it will begin to come into contact with warmer water which will mean that it will break into smaller, larger blocks. small in quotes because in this case we would be talking about smaller blocks but of Pieces of hundreds of square kilometers, let's hope that it does not continue to rise further north because then it could already come into contact and conflict with shipping routes in the South Atlantic.
The iceberg has 1 billion tons of water, there was an old project, I don't know if you've ever heard of it, to capture one of these icebergs and move it to Arabia to solve the water problem. It's a story that I think some president sold. Arabic this idea, but it doesn't make any sense, first catching it wouldn't be difficult, the problem is that it would break as soon as it came into contact with hot water, it wouldn't hold up, it wouldn't reach Arabia and then even if you managed to get it there, have The problem is that the water is, the fresh water from that iceberg would be at sea level, so you have to pump it in some way to get it to the crop fields that are obviously above sea level and that requires a lot of energy, it was a completely crazy project.
Both icebergs and glaciers are not pure water, you can drink from them, there is always the risk of some trapped bacteria, especially if they are from Tibet because in Antarctica it is difficult for bacteria to reach us that affect us, but there can always be some. risk, but in general it is not a problem, it is clean water that can be used, it is not recommended, but it is clean water.
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