A giant iceberg drift for several days in Antarctica and could pose a threat to navigation, according to British researchers responsible to monitor and predict its path, announced Thursday their respective universities.
“An iceberg the size of Manhattan that could pose a threat to waterways is being monitored by a team of researchers from the University of Sheffield in order to prevent it threatens navigation, “said the university in a statement posted on its website.
Derive for a year or two
mass of ice broke away in early July the Pine Island Glacier (West Antarctica), but it has only been “one or two weeks,” she began to drift in favor of austral spring, told AFP Professor Robert Marsh of the University of Southampton, reached by telephone. “During the winter (austral note) he was caught in the icy waters and stayed there,” said the researcher.
“The main reason we are monitoring this iceberg is that it is very big,” said the teacher in a statement posted on the website of the university. “An iceberg of this size can drift to the north for a year or more and find themselves near shipping lanes in the Southern Ocean.”
suveillance six months
iceberg had drifted into the area and found himself in the South Atlantic, says Professor Grant Bigg, University of Sheffield, said in the statement of the latter.
iceberg the size of the currently drift off glaciers once every two years in the world, but this is the first time that one of them is closely monitored to predict its trajectory, provides the University of Southampton.
monitoring iceberg, conducted by teams of Professor Marsh and Bigg and should last six months, funded by the National Environment research Council (NERC) UK, which has just released in emergency funds.
AFP
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