Don’t jump off icebergs, coast guard warns after Red Bull diving stunt

Have a good, clean dive. This is something fierce. Diving off an iceberg into frigid Newfoundland ocean, Molly Carlson did it this June. That was an insane moment for sure. I'm so used to competing and performing on very stable platforms around the world, but to be standing on a moving iceberg floating in the middle of Newfoundland was never something I thought I'd be doing. The Canadian diver trained six months. Then climbed an estimated 14 meters up the berg, a dangerous feat and scary, she says. You're up there and you're thinking it's going to be stable, but it's very, very moving and not stable. I would advise against that. Coast Guard does not support or sanction any of that activity. The dangerous dive raising eyebrows for the Canadian Coast Guard. A little bit unnerving when I watched it. Just knowing how dangerous icebergs can be. It's an unstable platform. It's floating in the ocean. Should you? The iceberg could roll or flip upside down at any time. Pieces of ice could break free. We call it bergy bits or even growlers, which are pieces of ice, we say, small relative to an iceberg. But it could be the size of a vehicle that's under the water. Carlson says she wanted to be as safe as possible. At the iceberg, she had a team of people and scuba divers at the bottom. Before diving, she saw an iceberg she'd been thinking about climbing falling apart. It collapsed right in front of our eyes, and so we had to basically say, okay, these are way more dangerous than we were ready for, and we have to be prepared for everything. Still, don't try climbing up or jumping off an iceberg. It puts you in danger, but also first responders, Coast Guard says. Don't try this at home, folks. Laura Howells, CBC News, St. John's.