{"id":4621,"date":"2011-11-23T21:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T02:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2011-11-23T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T02:08:45","slug":"brinicle-underwater-icicle-captured-forming-by-time-lapse-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"Brinicle, Underwater Icicle, Captured Forming By Time-Lapse Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New video has been released that shows the formation of a brinicle on the ocean floor. Essentially an underwater icicle, the brinicle, or &#8220;finger of death,&#8221; freezes everything in its path.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Miller and Doug Anderson filmed the stunning time-lapse clip below, which is apparently the first of its kind. Shot for the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Frozen Planet,&#8221; the clip was recorded using a special time-lapse camera that caught the brinicle&#8217;s entire formation process.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really going on here is the freezing of warmer waters as sub-zero brine slowly sinks to the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.Where the so-called &#8220;brinicle&#8221; met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/brinicle\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Gizmodo describes brinicles as<\/a> &#8220;columns of ice that form under very calm ocean conditions, when there&#8217;s a big differential between the water temperature (around -1.9C) and the air temperature about the sea ice (below -20C).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miller and Anderson captured the brinicle&#8217;s formation near Little Razorback Island, close to Antarctica&#8217;s Ross Archipelago. The duo found a number of fully formed brinicles close to the site before finding one in the process of forming.<\/p>\n<p>These ice formations were known as ice stalactites until 1974, when Martin Seelye developed the now generally accepted <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=385906&amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;fileId=S0022112074001017\" target=\"_hplink\">theory of their formation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to also check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/12\/16\/frozen-lighthouse_n_797750.html\" target=\"_hplink\">awesome frozen lighthouse<\/a> from last year, another example of how icy winds can create incredible phenomena.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"width: 640px; height: 390px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LMhBuSBemRk?version=3&amp;feature=player_embedded\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed style=\"width: 640px; height: 390px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LMhBuSBemRk?version=3&amp;feature=player_embedded\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New video has been released that shows the formation of a brinicle on the ocean floor. Essentially an underwater icicle, the brinicle, or &#8220;finger of death,&#8221; freezes everything in its path.<br \/>\nHugh Miller and Doug Anderson filmed the stunning time-lapse clip below, which is apparently the first of its kind. Shot for the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Frozen Planet,&#8221; the clip was recorded using a special time-lapse camera that caught the brinicle&#8217;s entire formation process.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s really going on here is the freezing of warmer waters as sub-zero brine slowly sinks to the ocean floor.<br \/>\nThe temperature of this sinking brine, which was well below 0C, caused the water to freeze in an icy sheath around it.Where the so-called &#8220;brinicle&#8221; met the sea bed, a web of ice formed that froze everything it touched, including sea urchins and starfish.<br \/>\nGizmodo describes brinicles as &#8220;columns of ice that form under very calm ocean conditions, when there&#8217;s a big &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-report","category-videography"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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