Yes, you read that correctly...
It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie and if I didn't see the video myself I wouldn't have believed it 😭😭
https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1643086237782224897?s=20
- historyinmemes
I think I've found my daily hub of unknown weird sciency things😀
BRINICLES
A brinicle is a finger of ice slowly descending from above an iceberg, freezing everything it touches and leaving a trail of frozen corpses.
(Talk about the Ice Queen's wannabe🥶)
It's actually a pretty unusual underwater phenomenon, occuring in the cold polar oceans.
It's been rarely captured in camera as it occurs under floating ice, but everytime it occurs, the waterworks is always enchanting❄️.
(Legit should be added to 1000 Ways To Die)
How Is It Formed?
Afyer numerous studies, it was found that when sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans get frozen together, salt and other ions that are normally found in seawater gets left out. 💦
Brine, being concentrated salt water, gets gathered in various salt cracks and channels in the sea ice.🧊
Brine needs a much lower temperature to freeze, so it is still in liquid form. When the ice eventually cracks open, the ultra-cold brine leaks out into the ocean below. 🌊
Being heavier than normal salt water, it begins to descend, using it's demonically cold temperature to freeze saltwater as it goes down to the ocean floor.
It is frozen on the outside but liquid inside, so it's a continual tube shape as the inner wall continues to melt and the outer wall continues to freeze 🥶
Although it should be noted that is a very fragile icicle, it could be easily broken, so Incase you come across it, just sacrifice a finger or two and save an ocean floor load of critters 😀✨
Image gotten from here and edited using Canva
For further readings
🧊 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2023/feb/16/brinicles-icy-fingers-of-death-antarctic-ocean
🧊 https://bigthink.com/hard-science/brinicles-icy-fingers-of-death/