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Alaska, Hubbard Glacier, August 2018


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I'd estimate around 4 ship lengths, which is the recommended distance per ship I think. So if our ship was 1000 feet long, we were about 4000 feet from the glacier.

 

When the glacier calves, the pop that it made when the ice first broke free. This to me sounded like a distant shotgun blast. This was not loud at all. And as the glacier calves, the noise was easily overpowered by the noises from those people on the ship.

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Also, there are instances where you'll hear the pop, or crack, and you'll hear something fall into a crevice or water, but you won't see anything. That's because there are many gaps behind the front face of the glacier that you can't see. Ice is breaking off behind the face of the glacier and is falling into those gaps behind it.

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1 minute ago, AF-1 said:

Thank you for your answers.  When I visited the glacier in 2017; never saw any piece break off or slide into the sea.  You were fortunate.  Have a great day

Unfortunately, that happens too. The last time that we were there on the Celebrity Millenium, we didn't see a single piece of ice calve off. It was raining that day and I assumed it would be calving like crazy. So much for my assumptions.

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