A casual photo session in Iceland resulted in a grandmother being swept out to sea while on her 'Ice Throne,' according to a recent news report. The incident, which resulted in a safe rescue and amusing image, involved Judith Streng, who was on Iceland's Diamond Beach with her son when they spotted a throne-shaped piece of ice.
Streng was interviewed by ABC News after the images of her unexpected sea voyage went viral. During the interview, Streng explained that she spied the piece of ice, which was 'shaped like an easy place to sit.' Her son managed to take one image of Streng on her throne before the small iceberg began to 'totter.' Moments later, a wave dislodged the ice and pulled it — with Streng still seated atop — out to sea.
Fortunately, Randy Lacount, a boat captain with water rescue training from Florida, was nearby when the incident happened and was able to rescue Streng without trouble. Per her interview, Streng was able to joke about the moment, saying, 'I'm always going to be queen. Come on, that was my chance.'
Most likely the tide came in and the lump of ice stayed sat on the sand the whole time. And then some prick "photographer" decided to invent a few lies around it to get a bit of attention on the internet. Same old story.
On today's news they showed a woman who crossed a barrier at an Arizona zoo to take a selfie with a jaguar. The jaguar did what a thinking person would expect it to do and the woman was badly injured. There is no end to stupidity. Thank God the animal will not be put down.
There is no age for stupidity and awareness for this woman (I do not know if she actually is a "grandmother", is she?), neither for ignorance (for the soi-disant reporter about Island), neither for this bad sense of humour (laughing for no nothing and what a waste of time)...
I know stories of people who have died for putting themselves in danger to take a picture, this is not funny, the story of the grandmother is not funny. What do people think? not only you put yourself in danger, you put in danger the person or the team of people who will try to rescue you, if everything goes well and you are rescued there is a cost, a medical team that will transfer, will assist you ... You should get a strong sanction not a stupid tv interview.
I’ve been there, and what a lot people do not realize is that there is an extremely dangerous rip current that occurs with the flow from the lake on the other side of the road, under the bridge, and swings out parallel along the stretch of the beach, depositing the large chunks of ice. It was an incredibly foolish thing to do, and she is fortunate to be alive, not sliding off the ice into the that water! Judging by her character, she wouldn’t last ten minutes at Peggy’s Nova Scotia, famous for viewing large waves, and infamous for the unprepared never to leave.
While I share your innate skepticism, I don't see a 'boat captain from Florida' as being problematic. It doesn't say Mr. Lacount piloted from Florida to Iceland just to save Grammy Iceberg. Lots of boat captains in Florida. Big fishing industry in Iceland. Ergo, very plausible a boat captain initially from Florida may be working in the waters around Iceland. There are likely several, just as I'll bet there are a few Icelanders working the waters of Florida.
Quoting the captain's origin is a holdover from ye olden times when foreigners abroad were an exotic thing and made great copy. Despite the internet and general ease of travel of the present, there are still people who don't venture far. For these folks, 'a man from Florida' may sound exotic even if the fact is completely irrelevant to the story.
"She was quickly rescued thanks to Randy Lacount, a boat captain from Florida, who happened to be nearby[...]" Where does it say he was on a boat, let alone his boat? He was a tourist, just as granny Streng. They may have been members of the same group visiting Reynisfjara black-sand beach in Icelend. It just happened he is a boat captain by trade. It could have been as well "... she was quickly rescued thanks to Randy Lacount, a "plastic surgeon" or "male model" or "dental surgeon or "randy pensioner" from Florida, who happened to be nearby [...]" By the way, the sea on those black-sand beaches is very dangerous - the "sneaker waves" as they are known, can drag a person in a matter of seconds.
Weather The Rescuer was a boat captain or not or from Florida or Finland or Finbucktu is completely irrelevant to the story. It should not have been even mentioned in the story. I'm so tired of bad reporting.
Every day I come here, full of anticipation, hoping for studio comparison shots and reviews of various new and semi-new cameras, and you have the nerve to publish this kind of "content" here?
you generate DPR ad revenue regardless of the content you view. This was quick and easy content for them to post, but the ad revenue was the same as a extensive review.
Oh. Really? Cool! Then why not just ditch all that pesky and demanding quality content and resort to recycled yellow press "news". We can let go two thirds of the staff, sprinkle some clickbaity titles on top, and we're golden!
I began feeling that way about DPR a LOOOONNNNGGGGG time ago. I gave up expecting DPR to be a review site a LOOOOONNNNGGGG time ago. I'm always bemused to see present day comments suggesting this changeover in DPR's direction happened just yesterday. Said but true, DPR became a news portal for anything vaguely camera/photography related a LOOOONNNNNGGGG time ago, with a few reviews sprinkled on top.
Good to know that my heartache just bemuses you... :´(
I'm totally ok with content/news that is vaguely camera/photography related. I'll even endure some sponsored content if it is necessary to keep things afloat. But this here is another quality of content. One that happened yesterday. One that does not belong here.
Sorry, didn't mean to ridicule, but that the fact remains that DPR has been padding its pages with this sort of content for a long time. I learned to stop expecting serious content from DPR a long time ago. I come here mainly for the lively comments as they can be very entertaining. Any serious content is a bonus but not expected; I get that elsewhere these days.
I'd file this under the "dumb selfies" category. A whole new genre of photography, where people do dangerous things in order to create a a photo they can share on social media. Just like those photos taken of people standing on railroad tracks, leaning over cliffs, or standing on the edge of an active volcanoes.
this is obviously so freakin fake. There is just no way you could sit on a small piece of ice that was sitting on the beach and drift out at sea. No way the whole thing wouldn't just tip over. Also look at the huge waves in the background, there is zero chance this is real.
Indeed. Just one picture, and no pictures of the rescue operation makes it even more suspicious. A wave that supposedly drifted her away, along with the very slippery ice, would've knocked her to the water in a fraction of a second.
It is 100% real. It was all over the news which included views of her floating in the water. She was not sitting on an iceberg. She was sitting on a chunk of ice that broke off. The news also included interviews with her and rescuers.
@tbcass yeah sure.. because the media never publishes a fake story ;) there is no photo of her floating in the water. just the photoshopped iceberg. There is also no photo of her rescue.
Also "She was quickly rescued thanks to Randy Lacount, a boat captain from Florida, who happened to be nearby when the ice dislodged." A boat captain from Florida? In Iceland? How dumb have you got to be to belive this.
Not that this is earth-shattering news, but I'm not sure I believe this either. The second image just seems like it was taken farther back on the beach (go wide angle with your feet), and it also appears that she is still on the sand. The implication of the news stories seemed to be that she was sent adrift out to sea. It might be more like she was unable to jump off the ice without help so as not to be knocked over by the beach waves.
tbcass, Iceberg or not iceberg, a floating piece of ice, whatever its size, has only a small part above the water. Just drop an ice cube into a glass of water and look... However, I think that, on the picture showing GMA floating on her ice throne, the block of ice does not float actually. I think it is just surrounded by the water and still touches the ground...
Fake news exist and I take all news from social networks (where this one started from) with a grain of salt... I do not believe this one is fake particularly, but the fact that no picture of the rescue is available (it was a very important moment in this story) is weird enough to ask...
Probably because the rescue party were all laughing too hard to remember to capture the moment? Not everyone has the photographer's instinct to get a photo BEFORE jumping in to help. ;)
@User9362470513 Donald ? A fake president too... And as I am French, I do not really care about what Donald says or thinks as long as it does not have any negative consequences outside the USA... So your comment is a little bit irrelevant.
@tailings The same photographer who took the shots we can see here could have shot the rescue, not necessarily the rescuer... As simple as that...
@Karroly Obviously he was too busy reading 'likes' on the photos he had already tweeted. Else she was out of range for his cellphone camera. Satire much? Simple as that.
@tallings, Satire ? OK. Then let give me you an advice someone gave to me a while ago here on DPR. First, we came from different countries and do not master English/American equally, either to read or understand it. Especially when it comes to subtleties. Second, when you use satire when speaking, I can guess it with the tone of your voice or that smile on your face. There are no such things when writing. That is why smileys were invented. So use them appropriately. Then I could smile when you use satire :-) And to make things even more complicated, there are enough weird people on DPR who could actually think what you write...
All of this is what makes DPR such a lively place. People passionate about vastly overpriced gear that takes pictures 10% better than their cellphone. Heavily opinionated editorial guised as reviews. Quirky new clips from around the world. And an international community in attendance, each with an active voice in the production.
I do realize satire can get lost in translation. Tricky waters. Make the satire too obvious and it looses its punch. I usually judge the content based on the source. As this is DPR, I generally assume most everything I read here to be far from the truth; opinion at best and usually weighted with a heavy dose of surrealism if viewed with a straight face.
For the record, I did use a smiley above in the conversation. :/ One of my favorites.
Not sure why this funny. Rescue person had to risk their own life because of a needless and potentially very dangerous photo! I hope they get a bill for the time it took for this rescue. Please do not try this at home.
Hopefully this will teach her and others not to spoil all those beautiful locations by standing and sitting on everything to get a “unique” picture. More often then not it’s impossible these days to enjoy nature in a normal way because all these instagrammers and bloggers have to stand on trees, rocks and icesculptures like this one here to show the world how much fun they have.
Dare I say, this almost looks contrived? Reminds me of the Balloon Boy Hoax. Regardless, who relates the near death of their grandma by concluding LMAO? (And what in the world is 'lmao off off off'? One 'off' will do.)
Well she's not the first and certainly won't be the last. People continue to do stupid things to take selfies with people they don't know and on top of that really couldn't care less. That being said she's just one of the lucky ones who was fortunate to not lose her life this time.
There are a ton of dumb idiot photographers who go to the iceberg beach and stand on the ice or do different things for instagram photos. Risking so much.
I've heard of people getting concussion when the wave came in and they got knocked out by the ice on the beach.
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