Australian scientist spots gigantic iceberg headed for NZ

[KiwiCoromandel]

An Australian scientist has described how he became the first person to spot a gigantic iceberg which is headed for New Zealand.

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source: 3 News

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[Redneck4sure]

It's been floating around for 10 years and it has just now been spotted.

Maybe the crew of 12 ships have seen it but only after they crashed into it and just before everybody drowned.

[Redneck4sure]

OK Kiwi! It appears to be safe for you take your ship (battleship, destroyer, aircraft carrier) out to sea again. The winds have blown the icebergs away. Just don't get too far from the coast.

Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday.

A shipping alert was sent out last week and maritime authorities have been monitoring the iceberg flotilla as it drifted north from Antarctica toward New Zealand's South Island.

"It looks like they've all disappeared east of New Zealand," oceanographer Mike Williams, with New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, told The Associated Press. He said it would be unlikely they would be seen anywhere near the coastline.

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