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I have ordered helicopter for the next ice berg.
I want a three aside teams total of 6 players on stand-by for the next ice berg for a game nets I will provide and sticks your own.
The very approx cost is about 1000 dollars per player the trip is a round trip 45 minutes each way is about max. The copter needs to hover the whole time and we must wear special suits in case the berg throws us off or you skate off the edge.we can get winched out as the suit has a clip on it and made with floatation and bright colours.
We can skate on the surface as it is real ice not snow. I hope to get the world film news to see it as it will be the first time ever that has been done.GAME TIME 5 MINS.
WHO’S UP FOR IT ?
COULD BE ANYTIME IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
KEITH DICKSONLol, normally I’d laugh something like that off as a joke. Except you have a habit of pulling off totally insane stuff, so I do believe you.
How the heck are you going to guarantee there is a smooth surface to skate on? Wouldn’t it be all lumpy and un-skateable?
I voted “COME”, but I’m a little sketchy at this stage and it would depend on how I felt at the time. I’d say I’m about 20% likely to give it a bash right now and how likely it was that we could actually skate on it. It really doesn’t sound all that safe, albeit that wouldn’t necessarily stop me from doing it.
http://aardwolfsice.com/News/NIR/Photos … _Page.html
I’d also consider doing this:
[img width=640 height=480]http://aardwolfsice.com/Images/NIR/tasmanglacier/2009/Tasman2_2709.JPG[/img]But it’s a bit dodgy since apparently chunks of ice were occasionally falling off the bergs and crashing through the ice. But I can’t imagine skating on an ice berg at sea is any less dangerous.
Fingers crossed we don’t win a Darwin award for this.
PS: You are completely insane
” title=”Tongue” />I will come as long as I can stay in the helicopter. I was a bit disappointed when the Y2K thing didn’t amount to anything but this has potential for some real carnage. Darwin at work I reckon!
I have talked to people who landed on the last one it was flat enough and the ice was good they have photoes IT IS NOT SNOW
Keith"keith":2agbe3wj wrote:I have talked to people who landed on the last one it was flat enough[/quote:2agbe3wj]Would these perhaps be bits of ice that melted and refroze into a flat surface? Or maybe rain water?
Skating on sea water could certainly be interesting. It would be quite squishy I imagine. It’s like the polar opposite of when they use deionized water on rinks.
"keith":2agbe3wj wrote:and the ice was good they have photoes IT IS NOT SNOW
Keith
[/quote:2agbe3wj]I wasn’t doubting it’s all ice, just questioning whether the ice wouldn’t be all rumply. It doesn’t take much to make ice crap to skate on, and being at sea swishing around and not being entirely level seems like it would cause all sorts of havoc with an ice surface.
The ice according to the helicopter pilot is as smooth as a polished suface washed by the weather and is like glass. the rocking is not very much the ice bergs are klms long big not rink size, anyway ice hockey players can cope with that if you can’t then your not a good enough skater, we skated on manoburn in the old days when the place was broken up like a jigsaw and jumped from piece to piece
keith
keithBeing an undertaker and a shark you should not be troubled.
Anyway there is one on the way.
Think the answer to the question two up
A you will get hit on the head by a very large pc of ice as it rolls over then no worries you won’t feel a thing be dead, the water round the ice will be freezing so might feel exposure and hypothermic and die so all in all if you think all that is going to happen the don’t come. The guy who shared the sheep didn’t care neither did shriek the sheep.
KeithThe shearer and shrek the sheep were sitting on a giant blanket and weren’t moving around….thats a bit different to skating around…
Don’t get me wrong if you are brave/stupid enough to head out there more power to you. But I can think of better things to do with 1000$
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