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FROZEN BOOTY 'Ice pirate' to steal 3,000-foot ICEBERG -

• https://www.thesun.co.uk By Sean Keach

A COLD, BOLD plot to hijack an iceberg and tow it from Antarctica to South Africa could take place this year.

"Ice pirate" Nicholas Sloane wants to cart a 125million-ton 'berg across the sea – only to melt it down for drinking water.

Sloane, 56, is a professional marine salvager who recently oversaw the refloating of capsized Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia.

And he now hopes to solve South Africa's water crisis by nabbing an iceberg from the South Pole, Bloomberg reveals.

Severe drought in 2017 led to Cape Town nearly running out of water, and the city – which Sloane calls home – still has restrictions of 70 litres per day.

"My wife used to take a bath every night and a shower every morning. She told me, 'You'd better do something'," Sloane said.


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