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The 'brinicle' reaches the ocean floor... and some unlucky starfish BBC Nature via YouTube.com
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WATCH: The "ice finger of death" at work

BBC Nature has captured the most astounding footage of an ocean ‘brinicle’. You DON’T want to get caught in its path.

DON’T KNOW WHAT a “brinicle” is? Let BBC Nature enlighten you.

This amazing timelapse video shows brinewater from sea ice making its way to the depths of the ocean at the Antartic, freezing into a giant column of ice on its way. When the ‘brinicle’ touches the ocean floor, it traps any living thing it touches in a tomb of ice. Frightening stuff if you live on the bottom of the ocean…

(via cwmbro/Youtube.com)

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