Posted on 04/19/2015 6:13:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
This winter, Bellini plans to travel to the west coast of Greenland, select an iceberg, and survive on it for an entire year.
As a message on his website explains, "Clinging to that piece of drifting ice, Alex will spend up to 12 months to witness the last phase of its long life, while managing with a constantly changing environment. As the iceberg will get smaller and less stable Alex Bellini will have to adapt himself to the new situation."
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Bellini won't be out there on that slowly shrinking hunk of ice in a store-bought tent. Instead, he'll be living in a special "survival capsule" created by engineers at a Washington state-based company. The spherical domicile is designed to withstand disaster-intensity physical forces and is equipped with watertight doors and air supply tanks, in addition to GPS equipment that will track its location.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
this guy could come to Ottawa in November and the effect would be much the same.
Icebergs roll over as their melting shape causes weight imbalance, and even if he is in a strong capsule with oxygen, it seems doubtful that he would survive being suddenly slammed underwater and held there by the ice for a long time.
Maybe he’ll get lucky and have one of those nearly extinct polar bears take up residency on his ice berg .... I’m betting on the cute cuddly bear as the eventual sole resident!
Silly Italian. Doesn’t he know it will melt within a year?
He had better hope he is in his capsule with the hatch locked down if the berg rolls. I don’t think there would be much warning when it happens.
Want to bet he saw The Great Race (1965) many times ,D’oh
Why waste a good year living on barren tundra?
I think I see Jack and Rose waayyy up there on that point .....
Yes, what is he going to do when it rolls over? He will be dead of hypothermia in a few minutes even if it doesn’t pull him down.
Well it is wop sided
“Well it is wop sided”
Thx for today’s groaner.
Can icebergs help it if they hate large ocean liners?
How about “Brewster’s Millions” with Richard Pryor.
California should do that, tow icebergs there and catch the melting ice, solve all their water problems.
What’s the name of the terrorist group in Italy?
Italian Isis.
Incredible video.
a survival capsule.. oh plz. give him a knife a pup tent some line and a fish hook.. and a signal flare
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