{"id":393,"date":"2011-02-08T04:15:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/?p=393"},"modified":"2011-02-08T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T14:43:35","slug":"iceberg-off-the-starboard-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/2011\/02\/08\/iceberg-off-the-starboard-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceberg Off the Starboard Bow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_396\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/berg-II1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-396\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-396\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/berg-II1-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/berg-II1-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/berg-II1-1024x950.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/berg-II1.jpg 1641w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iceberg about three miles to starboard <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Coming into this trip, I didn\u2019t have any expectations of seeing icebergs.\u00a0 Therefore, the first one we saw from afar near the Sandwich Islands came as a great surprise; it looked like a white fortress, and further investigation with binoculars made me eager to get closer to it. \u00a0We remained on station for a long time that day, and it was pretty unbelievable to stand on the deck and watch chinstrap penguins play next to the ship, while whales spouted in front of the iceberg in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>When we finally left station, it was getting dark and visibility was not <!--more-->optimal while we passed the iceberg\u2014the view didn\u2019t compare to what we saw today.\u00a0 Today\u2019s gray, overcast day served as a perfect backdrop for the glowing white with bright-blue undertones of the sublime iceberg.\u00a0 The iceberg resembled a sand dune, with its steep sides, hundreds of feet tall, marked with windblown patterns. Behind the iceberg, partially hidden by the fog, we spotted an even bigger piece of floating glacier.<\/p>\n\r\n<!-- <script src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-content\/plugins\/fp_rtmp\/jquery.tools.min.js\"><\/script> -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-content\/plugins\/fp_rtmp\/flowplayer-3.2.2.js\"><\/script>\r\n<style>\r\n\/* player container *\/\r\ndiv.player {\r\n\theight:272px;\r\n\twidth:480px;\r\n\tcursor:pointer;\r\n\tfloat:left;\r\n\ttext-align:center;\r\n\tmargin-right:15px;\r\n}\r\n\/* play button height *\/\r\ndiv.player img {\r\n\tmargin-top:95px !important;\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"player\"  \r\n    href=\"mp4:king\/colbyatsea\/Iceberg\" \r\n    style=\"background-color:#000000;background-image:url(http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/Iceberg1.jpg)\"> \r\n \r\n    <!-- play button --> \r\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-content\/plugins\/fp_rtmp\/play_large.png\" style=\"border:0px !important;\" alt=\"Play this video\" \/>      \r\n<\/div> \r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n$f(\"div.player\", \"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-content\/plugins\/fp_rtmp\/flowplayer-3.2.2.swf\", {\r\n\tplugins: {\r\n\t\trtmp: {\r\n\t\t\turl: 'https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-content\/plugins\/fp_rtmp\/flowplayer.rtmp-3.2.1.swf',\r\n\t\t   \tnetConnectionUrl: 'rtmp:\/\/flash.colby.edu\/vod',\r\n\r\n\t\t   \t\/\/ make the rtmp plugin query the stream length from the server\r\n\t\t   \tdurationFunc: 'getStreamLength'\r\n\t\t},\r\n\t\tcontrols: {\r\n\t\t\tfullscreen: true,\r\n\t\t\theight: 30,\r\n\t\t\tautoHide: true\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t},\r\n   clip:{\r\n         autoBuffering:true,\r\n         autoPlay:true,\r\n         scaling:'fit',\r\n\t\t provider: 'rtmp'\r\n   }\r\n}); \r\n<\/script>\r\n\r\n\n<p>Our location, currently around 49 degrees South, explains why we were lucky enough to encounter these massive pieces of floating ice.\u00a0 During the austral summer, the Antarctic Circumpolar current, which flows west to east around Antarctica, drives icebergs to where we saw them today.\u00a0 Because there is no land boundary north of Antarctica, ice from the antarctic moves northward into warmer waters, where it eventually melts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_394\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/Antarctic-Circumpolar-Current.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-394\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/Antarctic-Circumpolar-Current-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/Antarctic-Circumpolar-Current-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/files\/2011\/02\/Antarctic-Circumpolar-Current.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antarctic Circumpolar Current (Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, during the winter up to 6.9 million square miles of ocean is covered by sea ice, and by the end of the summer only 1.1 million square miles of sea ice remain. The icebergs that we saw started as massive pieces of glacial (fresh water) ice that melt slowly enough to make it 49 degree South. The amount of ice we saw, although only the \u201ctip of the iceberg\u201d in terms of the total amount that\u2019s out there (if you\u2019ll excuse the expression), was enough to satisfy us!<\/p>\n<p>-Annie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into this trip, I didn\u2019t have any expectations of seeing icebergs.\u00a0 Therefore, the first one we saw from afar near the Sandwich Islands came as a great surprise; it looked like a white fortress, and further investigation with binoculars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/2011\/02\/08\/iceberg-off-the-starboard-bow\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17554,1178,17552,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/colbyatsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}