Air bubble created under ice at Alberta's Lake Minnewanka captured in viral video
A video of an air bubble being created underneath the ice of one of Banff National Park‘s most iconic lakes has gone viral, attracting millions of views.
The clip, posted by @dyl_outdoors_ on Instagram, has amassed more than 300,000 likes and over 15 million views in less than a week.
The video shows a skater near a small hole in the ice’s surface, lowering themselves down to it and blowing into the hole. A large air bubble is then formed, with the camera following the bubble towards another hole in the ice’s surface nearby, and when it escapes, it creates a gurgling rush of water onto the surface.
You can catch the clip below, and it’s safe to say the pair on the ice conducting this experiment got a kick out of what happens when the air bubble comes back to the surface.
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The video also attracted hundreds of comments, with people expressing their fascination with what was caught on camera and also plenty of humour.
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Ice bubbles are certainly a thing in Alberta, with one lake in the Rockies attracting plenty of visitors every winter who hope to view a gorgeous natural spectacle.
Are you going to try to create an air bubble under the ice the next time you find yourself at a frozen lake like this, as shown in this viral video? Let us know in the comments.