Doha, Qatar: A video of a giant iceberg drifting along the shores of Newfoundland in Canada has gone viral with many netizens shocked at the phenomenon.
Footage shared by Sprinter99800 on Twitter showed a huge iceberg off the coast of the Canadian Island with the caption, "A giant iceberg has sailed to the Canadian island of Newfoundland."
The video, since being shared on August 1, 2023, has garnered over 11M views with 20.3K retweets and 127.7K likes.
???????? A giant iceberg has sailed to the Canadian island of Newfoundland pic.twitter.com/lPJ0xSCvDO
— Sprinter (@Sprinter99800) August 1, 2023
The video was originally shared on Tiktok by Emoinu and has been viewed 6.1M times.
While some expressed their delight, others wondered if this was a fake video. A local person commented that they always come down like that sometimes smaller sometimes huge.
News reports stated that such sightings are common in Newfoundland where people spot these massive block along an area known as Iceberg Alley. Though a common sighting, this one amazed many because of its colossal size.