From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

A ton of water would be 1 cubic meter. An olympic pool is 50 meters long
and what, maybe 20 wide and 2.5 deep in average, so that comes to 2500
cubic meters / tons. Sounds about "ballpark" right.


Antti Kurenniemi
(heavy stuff)

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
news:dssqj1prdnuqflfvog0t3n0cmpued9casm{at}4ax.com...
> 3,000 tons is only "a bit more than an Olympic swimming pool"?  3,000
> TONS?
>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:03:41 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don
> Hills) wrote in message :
>
>>In article ,
>>Ellen K.  wrote:
>>>    ...      Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation expects to
"harvest"
>>>about 3,000 tons of ice in 2005.
>>
>>That's not a lot. (A bit more than an Olympic swimming pool.)
>>And as someone else pointed out, it'll likely be glacier or lake ice.
>>Canada has plenty of that.
>

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