The Atlantic coast of Canada is one of the best places in the world to view icebergs floating down from the Arctic. A few residents of St. Anthony in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador got to see a piece shear off a giant iceberg close to shore on Saturday, July 9.
David Elgar told CBC news he and his brother were out for a walk when they heard a few loud bangs that sounded like thunder. “I said ‘I’ll get the video right ready to go,’ and then I heard another little crack and I said ‘I bet you it’s going to fall’ so I started the video just in time,” he said.
“Definitely the right place at the right time.”
Icebergs are a tourist attraction
The size of the iceberg was impressive, even more so, considering that 90 per cent of any iceberg is underwater and unseen from land.
The government of province invites tourists to come to view the massive ice formations most of which usually float down the coast between April and early June. It also publishes a map of where the icebergs are likely to be seen.
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