STORY OF ICEBERG HUNTER |മഞ്ഞ് മലകളെ വേട്ടയാടുന്നവരുടെ കഥ |BS CHANDRAMOHAN
Chunks of ice are melted and the water sold to local traders who make products for wealthy clients in Europe, Singapore and Dubai.
It’s midday and Edward Kean, a Canadian fisherman who now scours the North Atlantic for icebergs that have broken off from Greenland’s glaciers, is positively beaming.
Using his trusty binoculars, the rotund, 60-year-old captain of the fishing boat Green Waters has spotted his next prize — it’s several dozen metres tall and floating just off the coast of Newfoundland.
“It’s a very fine piece of ice,” Mr. Kean proclaims.
Every morning at dawn, Mr. Kean sails out with three other crew members to hunt what has become his own personal white gold: icebergs.
For more than 20 years, he has hauled in the mighty ice giants and then sold the water for a handsome profit to local companies, which then bottle it, mix it into alcoholic products or use it to make cosmetics.
Business has soared in tandem with the warming of the planet, especially quick in the Arctic, meaning that more and more icebergs find their way south.
icebergs enter the water from the massive glaciers on the west coast of Greenland down to the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. That's because there are so many of them, and that's where the bergs enter the shipping lanes.
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