The recent theft of 30,000 litres of iceberg water, reputed for its purity and low mineral content, shows how vital this enterprise has become. How does one harvest iceberg water? It's not easy...
During the summer, near the uninhabited fjord of Jakobshavn in west Greenland, a shotgun-like concussion will occasionally reverberate across the ice sheet. It’s the sound of a kilometre-high mountain of snowfall—compressed over many tens of thousands of years and weighing as much as 100 full ocean freighters—cracking off the mothership.
A week later, he and a crew of seven began the month-long harvest to collect about a million litres of water for the distillers of Iceberg Vodka. In a tugboat pulling a 54-m barge, they launched at dawn from Port Union, once a bustling hub of factories, fleets and fish plants, but now, like most outports in Newfoundland and Labrador, whittled away by the collapse of the cod-fishing industry. Today, fewer than 400 people live here.
Twenty months later, alas, thieves broke into the Iceberg Vodka warehouse in Port Union, stealing 30,000 litres, or a tractor trailer’s worth, of iceberg water—some of it from Kean’s harvest in May 2017. News of the heist made headlines around the world.
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