Icebergs to Cape Town is gaining traction - Nick Sloane

When Nick Sloane, a seasoned salvage operator published his plan of guiding icebergs from Antarctica to Cape Town to solve the city’s acute water problem; many people thought it was a far-fetched idea.  It didn’t help that the first story was released in Sunday newspapers close to April fool’s day.  Cape town’s authorities did not want to bite either.  But since then; he has managed to get the scientific community behind him. It has helped him to refine his models and Sloane now has the support of a number of scientists as well as the backing of the Water Research Commission. If anybody can achieve this, it is probably Sloane.  When Western European salvagers battled to get the Costa Concordia that ran aground off the Italian coast because the captain was apparently making googly eyes at his Moldovan girlfriend instead of watching out for rocks; a team led by Sloane managed to refloat the cruise ship.  In an interview with Biznews, Sloane said his ‘Iceberg to Cape Town’ idea is gaining traction. – Linda van Tilburg