never happened before - iceberg near coast of S. Africa

[donsu]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


An iceberg, 25 meters in length and 20 meters in height, has been spotted off the Indian Ocean shore in southern South Africa on Monday, described by local experts as an unusual scene. The iceberg, floating 35 nautical miles southeast of St Francis Bay, Eastern Cape Province, was spotted at around 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Monday by those aboard a fishing vessel. "This is very unusual and in fact we don't know of anything in recent history that has being reported this close to South African waters," Craig Lambinon, spokesman of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), was quoted as saying. Lambinon said maritime authorities were taking the report " quite seriously" and the maritime radio services were broadcasting a warning to vessels in the area. The situation would be monitored throughout the night to try to determine the direction and speed of the drift of the iceberg. )
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something new every day with climate change

[Annces]

1. Looks like humans are going to have to build an ark

for a 2nd time.

[poverlay]

2. Sweet! I hope Africa doesn't go down like the Titanic...nt

[lazyriver]

3. I can almost hear the freepers now...

"Ice...off the coast of South Africa...see, there's no global warming. The ice is spreading".

Only all the big words would be spelled incorrectly.

[slackmaster]

4. ICE BONGS!!!

[EnviroBat]

5. Man, that site is amazing, and a little ominous...

It catalogs the current word-wide health and environmental incidents which are life-threatening. It does this in real-time. According to the site there's some intestinal ailment afflicting half the population of some small rural school right here in Ohio. Red-tide in Daytona beach area. NEATO!

[semillama]

6. That site should be titled EVERYBODY PANIC

What seems weird is that they report on vehicle crashes along with all the other major stuff.

Plus, Mt. St. Helens appears to be erupting again.

[donsu]

7. they used to report , daily, plane accidents/injury/death in US until

I mentioned here at DU that I was surprised at how many plane accidents there were in the US every day. (many were minor, some were bad)

the next day it disappeared from RSOE never to be seen again.

[zalinda]

8. I'm surprised some company hasn't corralled

that bad boy, so it could sell the water at a nice expensive price. There are plenty of uber rich people who would pay the price to drink iceberg water.

zalinda