World's largest iceberg is on a collision course with major shipping lane

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A British research ship has filmed A23a, the world's largest iceberg, which has broken away from the Antarctic ice shelf and is now moving at speed, potentially toward busy shipping lanes close to South Africa.
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00:50 - I think it, over time, it's probably just thinned slightly
00:56 and just got that little bit of extra buoyancy
00:59 that's allowed it to lift off the ocean floor
01:02 and get pushed by the ocean currents.
01:04 It could still make its way reasonably far north
01:08 up towards South Africa, where it can disrupt shipping.
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