Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "Hear the Otherworldly Sounds of Skating on Thin Ice | National Geographic" video.

  1. On of the most amazing and loudest sounds I ever heard was caused by ice. The ice on the Welland Canal was over five inches thick, hiking along there after the sun went down. There must have been a big Niagara Falls hydro water diversion that lowered the water level. All of a sudden I heard a big crack that sounded louder than the cannons at Fort Erie, and it kept going along the side of the canal, fading into the distance, miles away. Incredible! I went down to take a look and the ice along the bank had sagged down onto the stones, with a big crack between it and the ice that was still floating on the middle of the water. So I took a drink.
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  2. Here in Ontario, black ice is thin ice that freezes on roads that you can't see, blending with the pavement. I can't imagine new ice anywhere being anything other than completely transparent, unless someone put black dye in the water. They should have touched a mike to the surface, getting far more sounds, and much louder.
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  3. This is the first time I've seen YouTube electronics mess up, with the added bonus, of seeing something National Geographic that not only is wrong, but is poorly produced. I typed my comment about the ice sounds I heard first, but it says "1 second ago". The second comment I typed says "55 seconds ago". I also know I typed them apart further than that. They do display in the order I typed them. okay... okay... you can say get a life if you want to.
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