Is this video real or fake?

[Erre]

An amazing video of stills which is fairly incredible. The music is nice too!

link here... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d40_1175728234

 

[Rustyknight]

Sounds a bit like the plot of a Hammond Innes story...... "The Strode Venturer" I think it was. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[explores]

is it kathleen jenkins?

 

[Erre]

Katherine Jenkins. Yes, I think so.

 

[MikeBz]

I saw the pictures of the 'floating sand' some time back, pretty sure that's genuine. Don't know about the island forming "in front of they're eye's [sic]" (aaargh - http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk:80/examples.htm), surely it would take longer than that?

Mike

 

[Fergus]

repost!

 

[Fergus]

repost! Does that count as a Lakesailor?
http://www.ybw.com/forums/showflat.php?C...rue#Post1342875

 

[1yppah]

I read about it in a US mag once I believe its true but then again I do not trust anybody o anything!

 

[Whitelighter]

More likely to be rock from a volcano - cant remember the techincal name - pummice??? - anyway, very very light and can be carried fro miles in the aiir and is know to float.

 

[canalcruiser]

Amazing sight it must have been

 

[Rigger]

"Time to say goodbye" (Con te Partiro), Katherine Jenkins

 

[pagreen]

Sounds like Sarah Brightman to me /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[dom]

Are you sure. I am going to buy the CD tomorrow. What is more the girlfriend will like it! Win win situation. Excellent!

 

[Sixpence]

I was trying to cheat and save the music , can't do it so maybe I'll have to pay out some pennies too

 

[jenku]

What did they name the new island?

 

[dom]

I must admit to having just had the proverbial quick beer after a wild week so if this is stupid please forgive me. I think the there was some Italian geyser Andrea Bot??? that sang this song. Now if I could sing this to my better half I would be sailing, evenings out.......................... in fact I would be made for life. I mean can you imagine? If I came home marginally late from the pub. Now for the sake of this illustration let us assume that I am locked out and she this tune wafting through the bedroom window! Alas it is only a dream!

 

[Rigger]

Yes I thing your right, they both did it and I happen to have the Katherine Jenkins version (and am biased as she's better looking I think!)

 

[Erre]

Yep and Josh Groban did it also, as did a weird looking bloke on Britain's Got Talent this week! I agree with previous posters in that I think Katherine Jenkins is teh one on the video and as good a version as any.

 

[Sniper]

doesn't sound like Katherine jenkins to me

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Well, a long time ago I qualified as a geologist and here is nothing particularly unlikely about any of it. It has happened much closer to home within (my!) living memory, when the island of Surtsey formed ine the Westmannoyane south of Iceland, and new islands form from time to time at Santorini in the Aegean. There is also a well-documented example at "Protector shoal" west of the South Sandwich Islands. I'd like to know more precisely where they were before being more definite about the probablilities, but there is nothing intrinsically improbable or even wildly unusual about it.

Incidentally, you can see an island on all the photos, so the bit about seeing the island formed is likely to be tosh! And such islands often form and reform many times, as the soft volcanic material (which is mainly soft ash and pumice) is rapidly eroded by the sea when the volcano is quiescent. Of course, it reforms again at the next set of eruptions.