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Ninety percent of a crisis is always hidden underwater.
means A massive chunk of ice broken off from a glacier or ice sheet, floating in open water with most of its bulk submerged out of sight.
from From German/Dutch 'Berg,' meaning mountain — the same root that gives 'iceberg' its full, chilling shape: literally 'ice mountain.' It traveled into English through sailors and explorers describing the Arctic and Antarctic seas, where these drifting peaks were vast enough to earn a mountain's name even while most of their mass stayed hidden below the waterline — a fact the word itself doesn't tell you, but the sea did, repeatedly and expensively.
- origin
- short for iceberg, German for mountain
- density trick
- floats because ice is lighter than water
- titanic math
- only one-tenth shows above the surface
- lifespan
- some drift for years before melting fully