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00:25The
00:26birth of an iceberg is an unforgettable spectacle. Newborn bergs can be as heavy as the largest
00:34cruise ships, and their shapes are beyond even an architect's imagination.
00:45It really looks like an ice sculpture in the ocean, an enormous ice sculpture.
00:52Beneath them is a world only the brave dare explore.
00:57I am scared. I'm not fearless. This is a risk I'm taking.
01:03As the bergs melt, they become a mobile ecosystem of marine life.
01:08It is very difficult to track icebergs. What you see here in the map, the icebergs that come from
01:14Greenland will have a very hard journey on the way here.
01:17Only the mightiest survive the trek to North America. When they arrive, they show their dark side.
01:24Oh my god! Oh my god!
01:27Engineers test shipbuilding materials designed to survive collisions at sea.
01:36While scientists are improving our ability to predict an iceberg's path.
01:41Crashes with icebergs didn't end with a Titanic. All icebergs have destructive potential.
01:48But they're also at the mercy of nature's forces.
01:52We can have icebergs vanish in 10 days that were a million tons.
02:06It was actually quite shocking floating there amongst this debris field of what was once this
02:11this incredible, incredible thing.
02:18There's something about these towering structures.
02:22When you're in their presence, you feel awe.
02:40Almost all icebergs we see in Canada are born far away from several glaciers in western Greenland.
02:46One of the most active is an ancient river of ice called the Equi Glacier.
02:50When winter ends, this mother delivers her offspring right into the salt water.
02:55The process is called calving. It's a little like a whale giving birth to a calf.
03:05But you don't want to be too close when this baby's born.
03:08Our captain keeps us a kilometer back from the glacier wall.
03:11It's a little like a whale giving birth to a calf.
03:34Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of bergs parade down the fjord.
03:40Bo Albrechtson has lived here for 25 years.
03:44He's never lost his sense of awe.
03:49I can say that the glacier is actually the most productive glacier on the northern hemisphere.
03:55And it is moving very fast, around 40 meters a day.
04:02And every year we have a production of ice from that specific glacier of 45 cubic kilometers.
04:11That's as if Toronto were covered in 20 stories of ice.
04:19Most icebergs are certainly born in or carved from the glacier front in the summertime.
04:24Because that's when we have most of the water coming from the inland ice as meltwater running beneath the glacier.
04:34All glaciers are made of fresh water.
04:37They start off as layers of snow that compact into ice over centuries.
04:42Gravity then draws the ice downhill toward the ocean, where it breaks off in what can look like an avalanche.
04:49Even more intense than seeing an iceberg born is hearing it.
04:53It's not a silent berth.
05:11Our audio technician uses a special microphone called a hydrophone.
05:15I'm going to hear what calving sounds like under the sea for the first time.
05:20For my graduate research, I spent countless hours over many years with headphones on,
05:28attached to a hydrophone, listening to the sounds of the sea.
05:32And not too long ago, in the 1950s, Jacques Cousteau made a film called The Silent World.
05:38And some scientists really had this idea that beneath the waves, it was quiet.
05:46And now using this hydrophone, we're able to be dropped down into this world that is so loud and full
05:54of life.
06:07Wow, okay, so it's hard to describe.
06:10It's, it just feels like there's so much energy behind this sound.
06:18Calving is one of the loudest sounds in the Arctic Ocean.
06:24The Akui icebergs fall from the same height as a 10-story building.
06:29Some of these bergs are as big as cathedrals.
06:36They're carried along by currents in the water.
06:38It can take a year for them to travel a highway this crowded.
06:46They hit a huge traffic jam right where the water is most shallow.
06:50The young bergs can be stuck here for months.
06:53Eventually, they melt or split or just get shoved through.
07:04Finally, they get a taste of the open road in Disco Bay.
07:15Even after they start to shrink, these icebergs are spectacular structures.
07:20Some have spires pointing to the sky.
07:24Others have peaks that look like mountain ranges.
07:29As they get closer to the coast, they start attracting fans.
07:33What a lovely morning.
07:37I'm so happy I can go out here just enjoying those magnificent icebergs.
07:47They're stunning.
07:50I wonder what story they could tell.
07:57I think icebergs have taught me awareness and being in the moment.
08:09Greenland's icebergs are stars.
08:12People from all over the world pour into the town of Ilulisat to see them with their own eyes.
08:23The icebergs just give you peace and silence in your body.
08:27And the feeling is amazing to be here and never witnessing anything like this before.
08:34The first time I saw icebergs, I actually teared up.
08:39It was so amazing to see, you know, the magnificent size of it, the colors, different forms.
08:49Ice icebergs are amazing.
08:55It's thrilling to see the midnight sun light up the surface of a berg.
08:59And what's around them is pretty remarkable too.
09:10They attract phytoplankton, tiny plant-like algae.
09:14The foundation of a marine food chain that goes all the way up to the largest animals in the ocean.
09:27It's one of the reasons why there's an abundance of fish.
09:58There's a lot of halibut.
09:59Enough to feed the community and provide income.
10:04More than a hundred fishers bring their catch here.
10:15So the nurturing of tiny marine life that begins under an arctic iceberg
10:20produces one of the most sought after fish in the world.
10:27So we send them to Danmark, to Aalborg, and from Aalborg to Japan and China.
10:48It's one of the most sought after fish in the world.
10:51Jorgen Christensen lives much as his ancestors did.
10:56He's a hunter, a fisher, and a champion dog sledder.
11:28It's getting warmer.
11:30The inland ice is getting smaller.
11:33The glacier has drawn, and the front of the glacier is now standing on the ground.
11:39The glaciers are not that tall anymore, and they are retreating.
11:44So that retreat is the cause of the smaller icebergs we see now.
11:50Size aside, there's a bounty of icebergs this year.
11:55And they're on the move, gifting fresh water as they go.
12:00We want to understand the life journey of an iceberg, from its birth in Greenland,
12:05to its adventures in Canada, to wherever it meets its final fate.
12:09We've seen the challenges icebergs face in the Arctic.
12:12But their struggles don't end there.
12:17We want to understand the icebergs.
12:18Oh my gosh.
12:19Oh, scary!
12:31After they set out from Greenland, this year's generation of icebergs heads
12:35into Baffin Bay.
12:36It's the start of a long trip, 5,000 kilometers.
12:41That's like traveling all the way across Canada.
12:46But they can't do it under their own steam.
12:49Larger bergs are mostly carried by currents.
12:52Smaller ones get pushed around by the wind.
12:56Steve Bruneau teaches at Memorial University.
12:59He has a real passion for icebergs.
13:03Steve Bruneau, Memorial University,
13:03studying icebergs has been a part of my life for quite a few years.
13:09On the east coast of Canada, we have a very fast-moving current
13:14from the north that comes to south.
13:19If we have miserable northeast winds,
13:23we'll tend to have icebergs being driven by the wind
13:25and by the surface currents show up on our shore.
13:34Their arrival is quite a thrill
13:36for people who have icebergs on their bucket list.
13:47Each iceberg is unique.
13:49They capsize.
13:50They melt.
13:52They're just exciting.
13:56It has been quite a dream.
13:58So we're really thrilled to finally be here
14:02to actually see what we're seeing.
14:05Ed Kane is pretty excited to see them too.
14:08But they're less of a novelty for him.
14:11They're his livelihood.
14:13He's one of the last of the old-time ice harvesters.
14:17Should have knocked that stout off first, see?
14:24Ed collects ice that falls off icebergs.
14:26It's melted and used to make drinks like iceberg beer.
14:30It's Newfoundland, not Disneyland.
14:32You've got to be pretty swift.
14:34And you've got to be on your toes.
14:44The ice we've got makes good vodka, good wine,
14:47good cider, and good water.
14:50So that's what we're all about.
15:02I mean, I never thought I would be drinking iceberg beer.
15:06What is in this?
15:07A little bit of snow from Greenland from a long time ago.
15:11Right. And what is a long time ago?
15:13You know, it could be anywhere from a few thousand years to 100,000 years old,
15:18depending on where it breaks off from the ice front.
15:21Why would anyone want to bottle it?
15:23So, you know, the water would have fallen as snow pre-industrial revolution,
15:28and there's certainly very little in the way of contaminants in it.
15:34Does this ancient glacier iceberg water taste any different to our tap water of today?
15:43Well, we should test that theory, shouldn't we?
15:44I agree. Cheers.
15:46Cheers.
15:47To icebergs.
15:47Icebergs.
15:52Pieces of icebergs can end up in a bottle, but that's not the fate for most of them.
15:58A lot of icebergs keep going along what's called Iceberg Alley.
16:04We've heard there are some amazing bergs in Twillingate Harbour.
16:08We want to choose one to call our own.
16:11So Steve and I head out to take a look.
16:17Are we seeing them more than we used to?
16:20The statistics are difficult to actually prove out because the variability from year to year
16:25has been huge for well over 100 years.
16:29Is that water kind of flowing off of it?
16:32Yes, it is.
16:33That's melt water, for sure.
16:34With the air temperature like this, it would be melting pretty quickly.
16:37Well, this berg has shed lots of pieces and it's deteriorating pretty quickly now because
16:42you can't see it getting smaller unless it actually calves pieces of ice.
16:46And it clearly has recently because around us are many pieces of fragments
16:50that have all been shed from that berg.
16:52Okay, so that big piece of ice and that one and that one,
16:56you think these are all parts of this iceberg?
16:59Absolutely, yeah.
17:02So it's likely all these smaller bergs were originally one iceberg.
17:07The reality is icebergs start melting as soon as they're born,
17:11and they often break up when they get to Newfoundland.
17:15The further south they go, the more they fall apart.
17:28But I have to say, even in pieces, our berg is stunning.
17:36Now I'm wondering what they look like underwater.
17:38As a marine biologist, I know some incredible sea life can gather around icebergs.
17:44But diving under one is extremely risky.
17:49Not something I'm trained to do.
17:51So we're working with an elite dive team.
17:54Jill Heinerth will take the lead.
17:56She's a Canadian legend in the world of underwater exploration.
18:11I am the hands and the eyes for scientists.
18:15Going to places where they can't go to.
18:17Maybe going to places that nobody's ever been before.
18:20So I bring back the goods, the samples, the data,
18:23and pass it off to a scientist that might spend the next 10 years studying something that I've brought them.
18:29Nick Hawkins will be close behind Jill.
18:31He's one of Canada's top nature cinematographers.
18:36The last 10 years I've worked as an underwater cinematographer.
18:39And this is actually going to be the first time that I'm up close and personal underwater with an iceberg.
18:46Good to go?
18:47Yeah.
18:49Let's go.
18:55One of Newfoundland's most experienced dive teams is supporting us.
19:00There's a lot to consider when preparing for a dive this dangerous.
19:09I do a lot of things that people might think are scary to them.
19:13But I think that the risks that I take are worth it.
19:16Worth it for data, for information, everything else.
19:18But it is in the top of my mind that this is a risk I'm taking.
19:24If a berg starts to flip, the only warning might be a sudden sound like a gunshot.
19:30Even the biggest bergs like to do somersaults.
19:34Oh, there's a berg.
19:36Wow.
19:42The big question is, which of the sibling bergs should we film under?
19:46We need one that's not too tall and not too tippy.
19:50All right, so we're looking at this berg here, Jill.
19:53The thing I like about this is, like, not a lot of overhangs.
19:57Who thinks it could fall on our head?
19:58Like, this is really far into its evolution.
20:01All right, let's go good.
20:04So, you ready?
20:05Yeah.
20:05Yeah.
20:06Let's do it.
20:07Stuart.
20:08All right.
20:10The team settles on this iceberg.
20:12It's strong and it's stable.
20:16If anything goes wrong, hand signals can be a lifesaver.
20:21So, Johnny's are fearlessly here.
20:23I'll do the navigation.
20:25Yeah.
20:25When we get into a situation, we're not going to go to any real overhangs for any extended period of
20:31time.
20:31Right.
20:31So, if Jason gets caught up, that's going to be our signal to come back out.
20:35Uh-huh.
20:36And then, uh, when you do surface, and if you still find that you're, and I give you the signal,
20:41Yeah.
20:42Like that, that means move away.
20:44Yeah.
20:44And keep swimming on the surface away because I don't want to go in too close to the berg while
20:48I'm picking you up.
20:58How are you doing, Nick?
21:00Good.
21:00Well, it feels like we're going to the moon.
21:03Good luck.
21:06Nick has never done a dive quite like this.
21:09He's relying on Jill's experience.
21:12And I'm talking that through with Jill and saying, okay, you know, there is a danger zone.
21:16This is the danger zone.
21:17This is what happens if we hear, you know, cracking and noise.
21:22I've breathed off those rags.
21:23Yeah.
21:24Okay.
21:26Plater hose, you know, trisuit.
21:28Plater hose here on my wing, 2700 psi.
21:33Good.
21:33All set.
21:35Good to go.
21:35Awesome.
21:37It's not an easy dive, really, uh, to jump in and swim along.
21:42You can be dragged down by vertical currents or pushed back up.
21:46Jill and Nick have to quickly figure out how to work together.
21:50Once they're underwater, there's no communication with the surface.
21:55There are signs everywhere that the bergs in this bay are coming to the end of their lifespans.
22:01Everyone's on high alert.
22:05One, two, three, five, five, five, six pię八.
22:32We're going to look for a tour of bats.
22:32I'm going to go with a tour to a door like this was rebuilt.
22:32Not only the Olympics were made up.
22:48Underwater, we're used to hearing the iceberg fizzing and maybe a couple little cracks.
22:53But when you hear these louder and deeper retorts, they resonate in your sternum.
23:02They're loud.
23:04Incredible.
23:05It's like diving along the side of a skyscraper.
23:08And that's when I saw Johnny, the safety diver's light shining, trying to get my attention.
23:12And that's when I was like, okay, it's time to pull away.
23:16The divers are worried that the ice above them is about to give way.
23:21Newfoundlanders, in particular, know just how unpredictable icebergs can be.
23:42Our divers resurface after they're scared near the ice wall.
23:48We're all relieved no one was hurt.
23:50In fact, the team is determined to go back in after they've rested up.
23:56There's good reason for people here to be wary of icebergs.
24:00I was shocked to discover there's still a hazard today, even small ones like ours.
24:06Is this a pretty busy port?
24:08Yeah.
24:09So do you ever see icebergs around here?
24:11Oh, yes.
24:11Certainly.
24:13Icebergs can be very close just outside the Narrows.
24:16So is that a little bit dangerous then with all this valuable cargo around here?
24:21Over the last 200 years, there's been over 600 ship collisions with icebergs.
24:27So collisions happen.
24:29Unbelievable.
24:29Yeah.
24:30So what is actually the most dangerous part of an iceberg?
24:34The part you can't see.
24:38We've invited a Canadian oceanographer, Juliana Marcon, to join us.
24:43She can explain why we often hear the expression, it's just the tip of the iceberg.
24:49Nine-tenths of the icebergs actually submerged.
24:53This is a result of the relationship between the density of the ice and the density of the water.
25:00The density of the ice is around 900 kilograms per meter cubed.
25:04The density of water is around 1,000 kilograms per meter cubed.
25:09So if you put 900 over 1,000, you get 90% of the iceberg submerged.
25:17And this is what's dangerous.
25:19Now, as it melts, its geometry will be altered.
25:23This iceberg has a center of gravity and a center of buoyancy.
25:29When those centers are not aligned, they will produce this rotational force that will make the iceberg flip.
25:36Sometimes what we see on the ocean here, it's actually what was the bottom of an iceberg.
25:43Yeah.
25:43But they are going to roll many, many times during their lives.
25:47It's not just happens once or twice.
25:51The Titanic went down southeast of St. John's.
25:55In fact, the city helped with the recovery of bodies.
25:58A new exhibition just opened, curated by a local diver, Larry Dale.
26:03Larry, you are a submersible diver.
26:07I was fortunate enough to make a dive to Titanic.
26:09And also fortunate enough to meet James Cameron, who's been a good friend to me for several years.
26:14And has gifted me some items from the movie, which I have on display.
26:17Oh.
26:19And this model shows what Titanic would have faced April 14th, 1912.
26:24And you can see the scale here, you know, based on what we know.
26:27And I mean, if we were to just look at this from above, that iceberg doesn't look very big at
26:32all.
26:32But once you see it from down below, oh my gosh.
26:36I mean, that's enormous.
26:38And plus, as you see in this model, it was a starry night.
26:40There was no moon.
26:41The scale it under water, it's like hitting a building.
26:45Seeing the props from the movie, you can't help but think about what a loss this was.
26:50More than 1,500 people died.
26:54Like Steve said, collisions with icebergs are still happening.
26:58As recently as 2024, a cruise ship hit an iceberg off Alaska.
27:04Oh, my.
27:05We hit some icebergs.
27:07We hit some ice.
27:08We hit some ice.
27:09Oh, my God.
27:11Oh, my God.
27:14Obviously a big shock, but everyone was okay.
27:17Just a few kilometers away from the exhibition, at Memorial University, Bruce Quinton is recreating the impact of a ship
27:25hitting an iceberg using pendulums that weigh four and a half tons.
27:31I love this machine.
27:32This is our large, world-class double pendulum apparatus that we use to test ship interaction with ice and particularly
27:39icebergs.
27:40We can get up to a mega newton of force in this, which if you wanted to convert that into
27:45the weight of full-size SUVs, that would be about 50 full-size SUVs.
27:51I'm going to be over here.
27:52I'm going to record the data.
27:54This is the switch to release the pendulums.
27:58Oh, my gosh.
27:58You give us a count and say go, and we're on.
28:02Are we ready?
28:03Yeah.
28:03Three, two, one.
28:12We are testing different arrangements of structure.
28:16We're testing different materials.
28:17We're testing different ice shapes.
28:19And we're testing different impact energies.
28:21The combination of strength and flexibility is what we're looking for.
28:25Meanwhile, Juliana is studying how icebergs move.
28:28It's part of wider research into how climate change is affecting the ocean.
28:33She's developing a computer model that could help forecast an iceberg's trajectory.
28:38So models like the one that I work with are like the models used by weather forecasting.
28:44So we are running what we call a hindcast.
28:47That's a simulation that represents what happened a few years ago.
28:52With icebergs, we have equations that describe how they will move, how they will melt.
28:58So essentially, all this computer code is trying to solve these complicated equations.
29:04And that's why we use what we call high performance computing.
29:09Those are facilities that have towering computers that work together.
29:13So this is a field where artificial intelligence is becoming more and more important,
29:18where we feed all this information with satellite images and teach the AI to identify what is iceberg in that
29:28image.
29:31Even with the use of artificial intelligence,
29:34it could be years before computer models can more accurately predict where an iceberg is headed.
29:41Back in Twillingate, our divers are refreshed and eager to get in the water.
29:47I'm in the boat right behind them.
29:50I've asked Jill to bring me up a sample of the marine life around our iceberg.
30:04And as we swim, there's this halo around the bird, kind of making it look a glowing green.
30:11It's all the plankton. It's life. It's a biological soup enveloping the berg.
30:18It's like going to another planet. What are these? They're so alien.
30:22with their lives taking place like this posture.
30:37And then this is the same there.
30:37That's what they are in this, they're like that.
30:40It's a giant vortex, like a galaxy.
30:40And as we go through the others,
30:41as we now do, I do two decades to come through and give up.
30:41So through this time, I speak tough as we need more.
30:43Then I guess I just ended up looking forward to answer this to take that it,
30:50looking into where we're going to use one of the breeze,
30:54they've been down for a while i feel like they probably saw amazing things and they probably
30:59heard a lot too because here on the boat we could hear a lot popping and fizzing and cracking
31:06but i'm hoping that jill and nick got some good plankton
31:10how did it go you guys absolutely fantastic it was amazing so did you do a plankton tow we did
31:16yeah so we can look and see what we got yeah awesome can't wait yeah
31:21i am trying to flush the plankton from the inside of the net down into the jar
31:27just to conserve as many as we can and we're using the same water
31:31that it came from right yeah i mean these animals must be really microscopic they're so small yeah
31:39they are so small all right let's do it there's something going in there okay looking forward
31:45to getting back onto land and getting this under the microscope
31:49it's funny right this looks like drinking water you would not hesitate to drink that
31:54but it's alive it is absolutely alive so it's it's like a thick soup that's enveloping the berg because
32:03either it's attracted to the minerals that are being released or it's attracted to the fresh water i
32:08don't know exactly wow wow look at that this looks this looks like algae right like a tiny piece of
32:18algae
32:19maybe but a very colorful one yeah okay so there's a couple and those would be rotifers yeah that was
32:27definitely a rotifer definitely a rotifer what exactly is a rotifer it's like a giant mouth on the end of
32:33a football
32:34and the cilia the little fingers are sort of spinning um and stuffing things into its big fat body
32:41so it's almost like the iceberg is a nursery for life yeah pretty much yeah
32:55back in the lab juliana shows us how underwater currents help create the perfect nursery for new phytoplankton
33:03so you can see on the side here where the plume is coming up it's stirring things a little bit
33:09that stirring is what it will bring up the nutrients from the bottom of the ocean up
33:15what you can also see in the aquarium now is that the top part of it of the water column
33:23is very very blue
33:24that's where the plume the melt plume is accumulating on the surface of the water not on the bottom
33:32is the water that is coming out of the iceberg that is fresh and wants to stay at the top
33:37because
33:38fresh water is less dense so the phytoplankton not only need the nutrients it also needs light
33:45so if that layer keeps the phytoplankton near the surface better for them
33:54the next day jill and nick are back underwater they want to show us the currents juliana was talking about
34:22it's just so beautiful to see it streaming out of the bottle and then being carried
34:27by the current it's just otherworldly
34:51scientists are still trying to figure out exactly how icebergs affect the marine ecosystem
34:58fresh water currents bring nutrients from deep underwater up to the surface where the phytoplankton
35:03live icebergs also offer shelter for sea creatures
35:09the dark streak in our berg suggests it contains nutrients that could nourish marine life
35:16as the days go by the team becomes more and more fascinated by the world below our berg
35:25what's below is what's so incredible it's actually grounded on a slope we might come back tomorrow
35:33when it's tipped up on its side and you're seeing an entirely different face of the berg so i think
35:38that's
35:39one of the most beautiful things is it changes every minute
35:46sometimes the tide will free a berg that's stuck on the ocean bottom
35:52then it might head out of the harbor and on to new adventures further south but that's not exactly what
35:59what happens here
36:13our berg has braved wind water currents and scorching sunshine
36:22now it's facing a new challenge an overnight rainstorm from off the atlantic
36:37when the sun comes up the next day the iceberg that delighted our divers has disappeared
36:45all that's left are small chunks called growlers just floating on the surface like wreckage from a plane crash
37:04it was actually quite shocking there's all these little pieces that i you know i even got to get
37:09in the water in this kind of field of shards of of ice and little bits and you know you're
37:15floating
37:16there amongst just this debris field of what was once this this incredible incredible thing
37:24it was kind of sad to go out after the big storm and then find that our berg was gone
37:33we guess our berg was three years old
37:37the largest iceberg currently is 39 years old so they it's it's pretty old right now but most most
37:48icebergs won't last that long they'll last maybe around a year if they get stuck in a very cold region
37:55they might last for like five or even ten years north of greenland for example if they are unfortunate
38:02enough to get bathed in warmer waters they will melt very fast our iceberg and all the sea creatures
38:12that surrounded it are now dispersed into the ocean
38:21they had a wonderful journey a very long life sure they lost part of themselves throughout
38:28the way but hopefully those parts helped life flourish in the oceans right so just like us
38:37we leave little bits of ourselves throughout our journey and hopefully by doing that we sustain and
38:46uplift others around us more than 450 icebergs were spotted off newfoundland and labrador
38:53in just one day this past spring some people wonder whether this is a disappearing phenomenon
39:02scientists don't really know it's possible more melting could mean more icebergs at least in the near future
39:12but it's pretty likely icebergs aren't going to have as long a lifespan or travel as far
39:18if they don't get as far south then you lose that potential source of minerals to this part of the
39:26ocean
39:27for the kalalith the inuit people of greenland icebergs have deep meaning they are sentinels of a
39:34disappearing way of life it's hard to watch the glaciers shrink and the snow melt earlier
40:09i'm
40:34Most people don't realize that I'm kind of an artist first, and it was
40:39maybe my love of art that brought me to the underwater world.
40:46Icebergs are yin and yang, light and dark, you know, birth and death, and maybe that's
40:55why I like to sketch them with just a pen. I don't want their image and their
41:04importance to be lost. I want as many people as possible to understand that
41:09this is like a living thing that's supporting the ocean, the very lungs of
41:15the planet.
41:21You have these moments underwater where you try to pull back from filming and just
41:26look at where you are. And it's just this reminder of how beautiful our world is, the
41:35immensity of nature. And it just really hits home.
41:49It's a wonderful thing to know that the world has been in existence for so long that the
41:56molecules that make each and every one of us up have at some time been a part of the hydrological
42:01cycle, which has no doubt been a part of the glacial ice sheet, the inland ice sheet and probably
42:08a floating iceberg. There's actually a little bit of iceberg in every one of us.
42:26When an iceberg breaks away from its mother glacier, in a sense, that iceberg has already started
42:37to die because it's being eroded away by the ocean. Pieces are breaking off. And so there's something
42:47about this larger-than-life being breaking down and floating away that speaks to us. It makes you reflect
42:59on life itself.
43:32It makes you feel it good.
43:47It makes you feel like it's been a little bit more and very beautiful.
43:47You can't really say I'm going to have to see it in a little bit.
43:47Yes.
43:49It makes you feel the feeling that the light is getting more in the sea.
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