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AWnB_8IPZ_s • A Cathedral of Ice
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Kind: captions Language: en and then you dive down you need one meter to go down and then you see then you just see the white of the of the eyes but then you come under this and then your eyes are looking in a distance and you have the idea that you can look more or less in all directions without limit that's stunning [Music] the first surprise is how varied the Under Ice landscape is [Music] the under eyes landscape is full of colors full of light full of life it's like you step into a forest it's very diverse and it's beautiful on the surface a thick layer of snow makes the flow look fairly uniform but underneath the scientists can see that the flow is really a collage of hundreds of pieces of ice of different sizes shapes thicknesses and ages in some eras it's very smooth in other areas there's overa a piece of ice sticking out and it's it's very variable and different and something new every time you look and of course the light is is quite nice because it changes with the thickness of the eyes in intensity and color [Music] it's almost like an out of Body Experience down there under this Cathedral of eyes with all this different colors and it's almost like psychedelic even though it is expected they are struck by just how clear the water is it shows that there's very little phytoplankton in the water column but there are a few Krill in the water though they're hard to see so the question is what are they feeding on