Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/03/09/maltas-famous-azure-window.html
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I suppose, wth rising (and possibly more tempestuous) sea levels, we’ll see more of these features disappear than we will see be created.
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Environment Minister Jose Herrera said several studies had shown that no man-made intervention could have prevented the collapse.
Nor should it. It is just nature doing its thing.
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The video in the article does not show the collapse. (Mentioning this to save others from spending the 3 minutes it took me to watch the 36-second video due to buffering issues)
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I hope they got Game of Thrones season 7 into the can first!
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It’s such a relief to read that a natural landmark has collapsed due to the forces of nature instead of a pack of drunken idiots vandalizing it.
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Why the hurry to accept blame for things we can’t control?
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Having visited it, I’m not surprised by the span, but the stack falling over kind of shocks me.
Great diving there though, it’s all similar arches and caves underwater.
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Sooner or later, this happens to all such formations.
Here’s one in California shortly before its collapse in 1979. 
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I keep reading about Game of Thrones in association with Malta and I’m here, like, “MAN, THAT’S WHERE POPEYE WAS FILMED!”
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Another rock arch at Legzira, Morocco collapsed last year.
Erosion giveth, and erosion taketh away.
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Of all the myriad terrible things to blame on AGW, I think that inevitable erosion of fragile geological formations is perhaps the easiest to forgive. Sic transit gloria…
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Makes me think of the exhaustive efforts to preserve New Hampshire’s Old Man of the Mountains. (I didn’t realize it had been fourteen years already.)
http://web.archive.org/web/20040407010030/http://www.boston.com/news/daily/03/nh_old_man.htm
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And they just left it there, but I guess Malta is happy. It’s a tourist spot and there are a lot of video tours of it online.
I never picture Popeye living in such a rocky, green sea place. I always figured him for New Bedford or something.
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Also, from nearby in the Bay of Fundy.
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The sea giveth and the sea taketh away. I wouldn’t lose sleep over it. The sea is working hard all over the world, ceaselessly, tirelessly, to make more arches, rest assured.
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The sea, she’s a fickle mistress. Yarrr.
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Thanks a bunch. Now I am going to have the “Sweethaven” song stuck in my head for three of four days. Probably “Everything is Food” as well.
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Fuck, I hope this isn’t some kind of omen, we just moved a huge peice of mission critical infrastructure to Windows Azure…
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Thanks, Obama.
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