A grandmother who was almost washed out to sea on a large slab of ice while posing for a photograph on a beach in Iceland has been rescued by a boat captain.
Catherine Streng shared photographs of her grandmother's February 25 ordeal online after being sent the images by her father, who was at Diamond Beach in Iceland when the chunk of ice was dislodged by a wave and started to drift away from shore.
Luckily, Randy Lacount, a boat captain from Florida was nearby and went to the grandmother's aid.
"He waded out into the roiling water and pulled her off the iceberg as it drifted out to sea," Ms Streng said.
Ms Streng poked fun at her grandmother in a series of images, with the first showing her smiling while posing on the ice captioned "Iceberg queen".
In the next picutre, she appears to have been swept metres from the shore and is being carried through surging water.
"Lost her kingdom when she drifted out to [sea]," the second image is captioned.
Ms Streng said he grandmother had been given permission to pose on the ice by a tour guide and that others in her group had posed for photos before her.
"So I guess she got to be the lucky one," Ms Streng said.
