Sunday
afternoon, four American tourists in Iceland decided to picnic on an
ice floe in the Fjallsárlón glacial lagoon. But that was not a great
idea, as they discovered when the ice they were sitting on started
floating away!
According to Páll Sigurður Vignisson,
member of the Hornafjörður rescue team and employee at Jökulsárlón, the
tourists, who were from the United States, had set up a table and chairs
on an ice floe with the plan of eating dinner when a gust of wind
suddenly pushed the ice away from land, leaving them stranded about 10
meters from the shore.
One of the tourists managed to jump to
shore before the ice drifted too far and called 112 for help. "When we
arrived it was quite comical to see them sitting on chairs and with a
table on an iceberg ... Yes the dinner was over," Páll told Iceland
Review, adding that he had not noticed what they had been eating as he
was too busy getting life vests to them.
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