Panic ensued when a huge glacier disintegrated next to a tour boat in Alaska.
The boat was taking tourists through the Tracy Arm Fjord, a deep fjord over 30 miles long in the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness in Alaska.
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When a large chunk of ice fell off the side of a nearby glacier there was panic aboard the tourist boat and one woman reportedly broke her leg.
Apart from the dangers of falling ice, collapsing icebergs may also cause tidal waves that can tip small boats over.
3 comments:
Tidal waves, really? And there was me thinking it was the moon that caused tides and therefore tidal waves.
Something falling into the water can cause bloody big waves, maybe even Tsunamis, but not tidal waves. The clue is in the name! I would have expected the Telegraph to know better.
Nice exhaust.
I didn't see the boat rock...unless you mean the the boat "rocked" in a figurative sense since the passengers were agitated.
Arbroath: Should we take the heading in a figurative sense?
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