Diving Icebergs, part I

I also found a cool report on a recent campaign by the staff of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute - which by the way must be the grown-up version of a childhood dream to join the Cousteau team. Okay, maybe before you have seen "A Life Aquatic" ;-)

Anyway, these researchers spent December in the Weddell Sea diving a ROV around and underneath icebergs to study their impact on the water masses around them. Here is another link to their project.

Since I am myself extremely interested in ice diving, whether it is SCUBA, ROV or even AUV, this was quite cool to read.

But wait: one more thing as we talk ice diving and icebergs (two things that sometimes confused), let me state this clearly: normally, ice diving involves going through and under a more or less thick, more or less solid layer of sea ice (or fresh water ice, if you are in a lake) and NOT icebergs. Or at least that's what I thought. Who would dive under an iceberg, as a diver, anyway? And what for? Turns out, a team of US cave diving experts did just that...