Here in Scotland, we occasionally get bad news about people who venture onto frozen lakes and rivers. Even the lochs freeze but there’s never been a report of a trapped Loch Ness monster.
It’s Canadian friends who have been sharing the generic lizard monster infographic. I’m posting it here because it’s good enough to share, but I’ve seen it and variants before.
As you can see, the visual shows how thick ice needs to be to support various weights. This one is credited to The Old Farmer’s Alamanc, and there’s a similar one that cites the ice depth research to America’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. That’s a military organisation.
The problem for both is that it’s not always easy to tell how thick the ice is.
It’s no surprise that Canadian friends on social media are resurfacing the definitely-not-Godzilla infographic because Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Furthermore, many of those 2 million or so lakes were made by glaciers carving their way through the ground.
I noted the lack of a frozen Loch Ness Monster, and there is a similar lack of reports of frozen Ogopogo, Memphre, Champy or Manipogo. Canada has plenty of monsters to use for ice safety diagrams.
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