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100-Foot Glacier Falls in Greenland, Creates Huge Waves (Video)
Icebergs are magical, majestic feats of Mother Nature.
Sadly, according to the experts, those gigantic hunks of ice are melting due to climate change – which could result in global environmental catastrophe somewhere down the line. According to NOAA, 'Worldwide, most glaciers are shrinking or disappearing altogether…Glaciers have shrunk every year for the past 37 years.'
And occasionally, humans are around when these glaciers collapse, which often results in a massive (occasionally surf-able) wave. Like this one below.
This glacier collapse comes from Greenland's Sermilik Fjord, and was captured on August 2nd. It shows, what appears to be a group of tour boats viewing the glaciers, when suddenly, the behemoth hunk of ice begins to crumble…and create shockwaves, which sends the boats into a frenzy, rushing away from the potential danger.
According to Gordon D on YouTube, here's what went down:
'I had just started filming this magnificent iceberg. Its size is hard to determine, but at least four times as big as our ship…at least 300 meters (984 feet) long and up to 30 meters (98 feet) high. All of a sudden, the unimaginable happened.'
That 'unimaginable' was the near-total collapse of the colossal hunk of ice. Gordon continued:
'We were around 300 meters away. The shaky video is due to our need to escape. The collapse caused a giant wave. Everyone started racing away. But all got far enough away thankfully. The iceberg almost rolled completely. And lost around 80 percent of its volume.'Surfing calving glaciers has been attempted, and successfully executed, numerous times in the past. It's treacherous, of course, and requires patience and commitment. Last year, Portuguese surfer Eurico Romaguera scored some of the best glacier waves we've ever seen in Greenland.
'It looked almost scripted,' said photographer Jorge Abian. 'Ice started falling from the glacier, and we were gifted with the first surfable waves of the trip. Saying we were happy would be an understatement. Then, it happened…what we were really waiting for. A massive chunk of the glacier broke off. You were ready Eurico. You caught that wave, like I knew you would. We got the shot. The one we risked everything for.'
Glacier surfing – probably the most core, and novelty, method of catching waves to ever exist.100-Foot Glacier Falls in Greenland, Creates Huge Waves (Video) first appeared on Surfer on Aug 12, 2025
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