#Iceberg rolls how to#

It never happened, because the technology at the time couldn't manage the tricky feat in a financially feasible way, but scientists are still examining similar plots today.

#Iceberg rolls how to#

Humans have been drawing up fantastical plans to wrangle icebergs and subdue them for our use since at least the mid-1800s, when entrepreneurs announced their intention to drag icebergs to India, where the ice could reportedly fetch 6 cents a pound, and to 'the southern ocean, for the purpose of equalising the temperature of the earth.' In the mid-1970s, scientists from 18 countries gathered at a conference in Ames, Iowa, to contemplate how to tow icebergs to the Arabian Peninsula and other arid regions to be used as a water supply. I'm not sure if that assessment is coming from my palate or from my romantic mind, which very much likes the idea of drinking something made from ancient water stored in massive, heartbreakingly majestic icebergs.

I'm not a vodka person, but this one seems smoother than most. Water that fell as snow tens of thousands of years ago-long before the Industrial Revolution and long before the industrial pollution that now swirls in the air nearly everywhere.

Vodka is about 40 percent alcohol and 60 percent water, so over half the bottle in front of me is water plucked from an iceberg. I think about the Titanic as I sip a thimble of Iceberg brand vodka, poured from a bottle with a blue-and-white rendering of its namesake on the label. They're volatile, dangerous and often larger than anything man has built. They can suddenly roll over, bust apart without warning and hide, invisible in the dark, and then sink unsinkable ships. Science Newfoundland Icebergs Canada Water