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Iceberg Will Be Home to Italian Adventurer for a Year
discovery.com ^ | Patrick J. Kiger

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 ...


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To: BenLurkin

In a couple of months, we’ll hear the dramatic story of how he is stranded and awaiting a daring rescue because the iceberg is either melting or capsizing, or breaking apart. Then half a dozen brave men and women will risk their lives to save this narcissistic idiot from his own folly so he can write a book and appear on Oprah.


21 posted on 04/19/2015 7:25:55 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: moovova
Here you go:

Awesome iceberg collapse during Joshua Holko Polar Photography Experience Filming

22 posted on 04/19/2015 7:37:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: clearcarbon

Lol


23 posted on 04/19/2015 8:32:31 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

Will he urinate and defecate on the beloved iceberg? This fool is an eco-terrorist.


24 posted on 04/20/2015 6:32:21 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Another great video. Thanks.


25 posted on 04/20/2015 7:02:40 AM PDT by moovova
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