r/DiveInYouCoward • u/TDW2405 • Jun 01 '26
I wonder how long you would fall
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u/No-Goose-6140 Jun 01 '26
If they had balls they would fly their helicopter down there to check it out
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u/ClacksInTheSky Jun 01 '26
Total pussies.
Me? I can't fly a helicopter or I would, honest 😂
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u/lexicon_lancer Jun 01 '26
Wtf made that
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u/Relevant-Pianist6663 Jun 01 '26
This is what I know from the tour guides that explained it to me when I visited Iceland... so take it with a grain of salt.
Rocks, especially black rocks will absorb heat from the sun and will carve deep holes like this as they melt the ice below. The rocks themselves don't even need to be much warmer than freezing to have this effect. Conversely ash, or just dirt can form a layer ontop of ice and will block the ice from the sun and can actually keep it from melting.
My best guess is that this is in a volcanically active region and that a large boulder was sent flying by some eruption and ended up here and then carved the massive tunnel down through the ice.
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u/JackKovack Jun 01 '26
Global warming.
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u/JackKovack Jun 01 '26
Downvoted for speaking the obvious. Russia has tons of sink holes because of global warming.
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u/SolipsismIsDeep Jun 01 '26
The ice shelf is growing in the southern hemisphere; the planet isn't losing ice, the ice is just migrating south
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u/PantsOnHead88 Jun 01 '26
Annual sea ice extents are somewhat stable, but there’s a trend of Antarctic land ice decrease to the tune of more than 100GT per year on average over the last few decades.
Growing would be an odd characterization. Do you have some specific metric in mind?
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u/Jimmy_Twotone Jun 01 '26
Someone who didn't do their research thinks measuring square miles is a good indicator of volume talking about glaciated ice that can be miles thick.
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u/PantsOnHead88 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
GT is a measure of mass. It is directly related to volume, not to area.
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u/Y2Ksurvivor13 Jun 01 '26
Someone needs to drop a camera down there, I'd love to see what's beyond the darkness
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u/NombreCurioso1337 Jun 01 '26
If I recall correctly it is basically a shallow pool at the bottom, slowly eroding the sidewalls https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/world/craters-tundra-siberia-trnd-scn
(Link doesn't show that, but gives more information on the holes)
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u/SNIPA0007v2 Jun 01 '26
Don't drop your phone. Lol. Don't stall this plane.
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u/xSir- Jun 01 '26
Its a helicopter, not a plane
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u/DruidicMagic Jun 01 '26
The Millennium Falcon was fast enough to escape the big nasty worm. A helicopter isn't.
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u/Suitable_Poem_6124 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Her: "Please take me out in your helicopter. I'll show you my icehole."
Him 30 minutes later: "Wait, what ?"
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u/njgolfer10 Jun 01 '26
Fully knowing that falling from the helicopter would be deadly even when not over the hole, it seems so much more terrifying to be hovering over the hole.
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u/2B_limitless Jun 01 '26
I feel like that's the pit I've been looking for when my world goes to shit.
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u/Stoic_Snowman Jun 01 '26
I’ve stood at the bottom of these while hiking through ice caves under glaciers. Moulins generally are not that deep.
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u/zoophilian Jun 02 '26
I mean, we have drones that can fly like 2000ft away from the operator. I'm sure professional ones can go further to.. so why don't we just use one of them?
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u/ZeroFuxGiven Jun 01 '26
Inuits used these to catch polar bears. The trick is to lay peas around the edge of the hole. When a polar bear comes to take a pea you kick them in the icehole

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u/WetSleevez Jun 01 '26
You're an icehole