Water Pirates

The cost for moving an iceberg from Antarctica to Cape Town, South Africa, is pegged at $200 million (US dollars).   That's likely quite optimistic considering no one has ever done anything like it before and there are infrastructure cost associated with getting the water into the regions distribution system that would certainly drive up the overall costs.  Still, when a city of 4 million is running out of water on a routine basis, iceberg relocation is an option....maybe.

The concept of "pirating icebergs" isn't a new one. But one of the latest cold capers is being floated by Nicholas Sloane, a South African marine-salvager who has experience fighting off armed pirates, rescuing thousands of rockhopper penguins soaked in fuel from a shipwreck and helping to refloat the Costa Concordia, the Italian cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany and killed 32 passengers, according to a profile in Bloomberg Businessweek on Sloane and his plans to lasso an iceberg.

Cape Town (and the world) is running out of potable water, so this is either and inspired idea or a great opportunity for a pirate.