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ing icebergs that are going to come upon you at some point,”

Riggs said. “They go quite far north to look for them and then they track them by aerial surveys and sometimes satel- lites. As the bergs get closer they are using modeling soft- ware to predict how the bergs are going to drift and come up with a probability that there could be a collision or what will be the closest point of the iceberg to the installation.

They will deploy various miti- gation strategies, depending on what the models are telling them. Mitigating may mean towing the icebergs to maybe going out and attacking them with a