"He is almost... in a diamond shape."
Black Ice
There's a huge black iceberg floating off the frigid coast of Northeastern Canada — and a photo of the strange structure is making waves online.
As fisherman Hallur Antoniussen explained in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the bizarre berg he photographed when on an expedition 100 miles off the coast of Newfoundland appeared to be about three times larger than the others surrounding it.
Shot from about 3.75 miles away with a smartphone back in May, the iceberg was unlike any Antoniussen had ever seen in his 50-year career.
"I have seen icebergs that are rolled... [on the] beach with some rocks in it," the fisherman, who hails from the self-governing Faroe Islands, told the CBC. "This one here is completely different. It's not only that he is all black. He is almost... in a diamond shape."
"It's something you don't see very often," Antoniussen said. "I just ran to my room and took my phone and snapped this picture."
Tip Top Shape
Along with its odd shape, the berg was rock-like in appearance and had darker veins that were visible even from miles away. Thoroughly perturbed, the sailor decided he had to show his crewmates the mysterious berg, and subsequently posted it on Facebook, where it went viral as armchair geologists tried to determine how it got its dark color.
"It's an Oil Berg," one commentator insisted.
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