BBC Nature: 'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LMhBuSBemRk

[SpiralHawk]

1. I see Pilgrims, turkeys and indians lounging by the fire

Am I the only one?

[NYC_SKP]

2. Brinicles! Fuck, Yeah!!!

[frogmarch]

3. What "leaves behind

brine that is extremely salty"? I can't understand the first several words.

[Occulus]

4. "New sea ice forming above leaves behind brine that is so extremely salty it sinks rapidly.

As it descends, the sea water around it freezes instantly and forms a sheath of ice- a brinicle."

This is one of the more bizarrely astonishing things I've seen.

"As it touches the sea floor, it kills any living thing it contacts by encasing it in a tomb of ice."

:scared:

[frogmarch]

5. Thank you! I played it

4 or 5 times and still couldn't make out the first words.

It was a chilling video. Poor little creepy crawlies. I felt sorry for them.

:scared: is right!

[TheMadMonk]

6. Officially cool. /nt