Iceberg visible off Aranmore!

UpDonegal

Report From Highland Radio

An iceberg has emerged nearly one kilometre northwest of Arranmore Lighthouse. The iceberg is clearly visible and poses no danger for ships.
The last iceberg to be recorded on the Northwest coast of Donegal dates back at least 40 years.
The island has been capitalising on this latest development, with many visitors over the weekend, and special sightseeing tours being organised.
Meanwhile, it’s reported the pubs on the island are offering a special iceberg cocktail containing ice cubes taken from it.

Now that show's how cold it's been!! :eek:

irish1967

Yeah just read that on RTE Live News update ! Hmmmm Global warming

We have an earthquake and an ice berg in the one week:D

2manyconditions

irish1967 wrote: »

Yeah just read that on RTE Live News update ! Hmmmm Global warming

We have an earthquake and an ice berg in the one week:D

An Earthquake? where?

Local-womanizer

2manyconditions wrote: »

An Earthquake? where?

Fanad!

dolliemix

Thats mad Ted!

UpDonegal

Yes a small earthquake waz reported on thursday evening, it measured 1.6 on the Richter Scale, only a tremor was felt in places such as Fanad, Inishowen, portsalon, termon, kerrykeel, rathmullen in Donegal!

According to Thomas Blake of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, the epicentre of the event was in Bridgend.

Snow, Earthquake, Iceberg - What next? :rolleyes:

North_West_Art

alien visitors by the looks of it

UpDonegal

North_West_Art wrote: »

alien visitors by the looks of it

haha that would be just scary lol :eek:

pebbles21

:cool:

boredofblackroc

How big is this iceberg? How long would it have taken to get down to there?

Ferguso

That picture was taken off the coast of the Antartica. Surprised RTE ran it as true before checking if it actually was. The joker behind the ruse is Wolfgang Steckhan, a German living lcally in Arranmore. He sent it out to the media in a bid to drum up tourism in the area.

Madam

I thought there was a bit of a leg pull going on here but I checked with Highland Radio, seems the pubs are doing well!

Iceberg visible off Aranmore
Posted: 10/Jan 13:36
Last Updated: 10/Jan 13:36
An iceberg has emerged nearly one kilometre northwest of Arranmore Lighthouse. The iceberg is clearly visible and poses no danger for ships.

The last iceberg to be recorded on the Northwest coast of Donegal dates back at least 40 years.

The island has been capitalising on this latest development, with many visitors over the weekend, and special sightseeing tours being organised.

Meanwhile, it’s reported the pubs on the island are offering a special iceberg cocktail containing ice cubes taken from it.

Ferguso

Highland radio must be accused of some laziness here, because that report is word for word what Wolfgang sent to the media. Yes, even the ice-berg cocktails!

Madam

Lol You'd think they'd have phoned down to somebody to tell them the truth;)

Madam

Oh it's been pulled from their website - how embarrassing:)

Ferguso

Can't find it on RTE anymore either..tut tut:rolleyes:

UpDonegal

Such a sham to pull that :rolleyes:

2manyconditions

Madam wrote: »

Oh it's been pulled from their website - how embarrassing:)

Does that mean the earthquake story is just a pile a s***e too?

Ferguso

Apparently not...

AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 1.6 on the Richter scale struck Donegal on Thursday night.
The minor tremor struck at 7.30pm, with the epicentre located at Bridgend in the south of the Inishowen peninsula, the School of Cosmic Physics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies confirmed yesterday.
The tremor was felt in Bridgend and Buncrana in Inishowen and westwards across Lough Swilly in the Fanad peninsula.
A number of people fled their homes in the village of Kerrykeel, fearing the worst before they realised the threat had passed.
Shop assistant Teresa Gillespie (26) was with her parents at their home in Desertegney, 9km from Buncrana, when they were disturbed by what sounded like “a really loud rattle of thunder”.
“It was a big rattle and it lasted a couple of minutes. It started in one place and seemed to roll along Lough Swilly,” Ms Gillespie said. She said they knew it couldn’t be thunder because there was no lightning and the night was clear.
Dr Thomas Blake of the School of Cosmic Physics said a number of people in Donegal had already filled in an online questionnaire on the institute’s website outlining details of the incident.
He said Donegal was one of the counties most at risk of earthquakes in Ireland due to several fault-lines extending from Scotland to north Donegal. Thursday evening’s tremor was picked up by all the seismic recording stations in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
“North Donegal and from Wexford across the Irish Sea are the areas most likely to be associated with earthquakes in Ireland,” Dr Blake added.
Anyone who experienced this week’s tremor is invited to fill in the questionnaire on the institute’s website www.dias.ie.

UpDonegal

The story about the iceberg has been pulled off from highand radio also, so it was just a lie to get more tourism for the area! :rolleyes:

guybague

Are you sure that just wasn't a photograph of Jim McDaid's Gin and Tonic?

inode

they are probably telling everyone its the same iceberg that took down the titanic too :rolleyes:

muffler

Might move this thread to the Conspiracy Theories forum

Xabs

http://sege.blogspot.com/2005/03/slowly-slowly.html

Here's where the pic was lifted from

Harps

Xabs wrote: »

http://sege.blogspot.com/2005/03/slowly-slowly.html

Here's where the pic was lifted from

Haha nicely done

Found it hard to believe when I heard it earlier, shows how lazy the media are when even the national news reports it!

ToniTuddle

Ferguso wrote: »

Donegal was one of the counties most at risk of earthquakes in Ireland due to several fault-lines extending from Scotland to north Donegal.

Oooooh. Interesting!

Pity that iceberg story wasn't true!
Feicin liars.

muffler

The iceberg story is probably the biggest hoax since someone said that Daniel O'Donnell could sing. :eek:

FedEx

any photos ?

Daniel O Donnel

muffler wrote: »

The iceberg story is probably the biggest hoax since someone said that Daniel O'Donnell could sing. :eek:

:mad:

Harps

FedEx wrote: »

any photos ?

See the link in the post I quoted above..

donegalboy

April fools day should be good craic this year if this is anything to go buy:D

Senna

Ferguso wrote: »

Wolfgang Steckhan, a German living lcally in Arranmore.

I'd believe a story about an iceberg quicker than a German with a sense of humour, that's just taking the mickey.

icescreamqueen

I think this Wolfgang fella is on to something. He deserves a job, working for Donegal tourism. Kerry has Dingo or whatever you call it, Donegal should have a tourist attraction like spot the iceberg. Everything in Donegal should be ice themed!

donegalman1

I can't help thinking that Donegal along with the perception that it was in Northern Ireland, too far from Dublin and always had crap weather has always been suffering for these incorrect assumptions.

Its interesting to see that in the past bad weather, including Floods and Snow, Donegal probably has had the best Weather and escaped most.

Stupid antics like this would be better replaced with changing peoples perceptions.

People would also be suprised to learn that most media organisations run a smaller skeleton staff at weekends and therefore not do great investigation, they mostly pickup news from other media and thus why it spread so easily.

Were it true it would have been a fantastic news worthy event and and ripe for being picked up. In this day of technology, stories are often expected to be run imediately, though Highland if they covered it would be very embarrassed. I would doubt RTE had a camera crew dispatched which they would have done were they not to catch on quickly.

irish1967

Of course you do realise that Disassociated Press was the only news agency in the world to actually capture a picture of this infamous iceberg.

Monkeybonkers

icescreamqueen wrote: »

I think this Wolfgang fella is on to something. He deserves a job, working for Donegal tourism. Kerry has Dingo or whatever you call it, Donegal should have a tourist attraction like spot the iceberg. Everything in Donegal should be ice themed!

This made me laugh like f**k. Thanking it wasn't enough to show my appreciation of its comic genius. It deserves a physical Thank You. Priceless!! :D:D:D

icescreamqueen

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

This made me laugh like f**k. Thanking it wasn't enough to show my appreciation of its comic genius. It deserves a physical Thank You. Priceless!! :D:D:D

Glad you thought it was funny. Googled it after and think Fungi/us was the name I was looking for! 'Wolfgang' has made himself known to me on this site. I think we would make a good team working for Donegal tourism. God only knows what will be seen in Donegal next. Should be fun!

donegalboy

donegalman1 wrote: »

I can't help thinking that Donegal along with the perception that it was in Northern Ireland, too far from Dublin and always had crap weather has always been suffering for these incorrect assumptions.

Its interesting to see that in the past bad weather, including Floods and Snow, Donegal probably has had the best Weather and escaped most.

Stupid antics like this would be better replaced with changing peoples perceptions.

People would also be suprised to learn that most media organisations run a smaller skeleton staff at weekends and therefore not do great investigation, they mostly pickup news from other media and thus why it spread so easily.

Were it true it would have been a fantastic news worthy event and and ripe for being picked up. In this day of technology, stories are often expected to be run imediately, though Highland if they covered it would be very embarrassed. I would doubt RTE had a camera crew dispatched which they would have done were they not to catch on quickly.

I don't think short staffing is any excuse for letting this one through...

Mint Sauce

2manyconditions wrote: »

Does that mean the earthquake story is just a pile a s***e too?

no, but the one about the flashing lights might be questionable

Fracture

Someone took this photo of the ice berg docking in at buncranas pier for the night.

SnowAngel29

inode wrote: »

they are probably telling everyone its the same iceberg that took down the titanic too :rolleyes:

"They"??? Hope you aren'y refering to all the islanders with your wee generalisation there!!

boredofblackroc

At last there's a realistic answer to our water shhortage problems - can someone tow it to Dublin Bay please?

Diabhal_Glas

The Sydney Iceberg

On April 1, 1978 a barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders (as residents of Sydney are known) were expecting it. Dick Smith, a local adventurer and millionaire businessman (owner of Dick Smith Foods), had been loudly promoting his scheme to tow an iceberg from Antarctica for quite some time. Now he had apparently succeeded.

Smith said that he was going to carve the berg into small ice cubes, which he would sell to the public for ten cents each. These well-traveled cubes, fresh from the pure waters of Antarctica, were promised to improve the flavor of any drink they cooled. The cubes would be marketed under the brand name 'Dickciles.'

A radio station reporter kept up a live broadcast from the iceberg (christened the Dickenberg 1) as it made its way into the harbor. Excitedly the entire city waited to catch a glimpse of the curiosity. Boaters who traveled out to meet the berg were given complimentary cubes.

Then it began to rain.

The water washed away the firefighting foam and shaving cream that the iceberg was really made of, exposing the white plastic sheets beneath. In this degraded condition the Sydney Iceberg sailed proudly on, floating past the opera house and city skyline. Boaters who now joined the procession were still given free cubes... though the cubes actually came from the onboard beer refrigerator.

icescreamqueen

I completely forgot that the Donegal Tourism tag line is 'up here, it's different'. So different that we make up things that don't exist. I'd say the only iceberg you'd get anywhere near Aranmore is of the ice-cream variety.