But, while the main crisis was avoided when the iceberg missed South Georgia and managed to avoid getting stuck, the impact of this huge hunk of out of place ice is just starting to be understood.

On Thursday, the European Space Agency revealed that A-68a has been flooding the ocean.

Packed into all that freshwater is a whole bunch of nutrients from the ocean that are not native to the sensitive ecosystem surrounding South Georgia.

The sudden influx of lots and lots of water packed with unfamiliar nutrients is going to have an impact on those creatures and their environment — though researchers aren’t sure if it will be a net positive or potentially destructive.