--- title: Guy Sets Off Fireworks Beneath Frozen Lake in Sweden: Viral Video description: A whole new way to go fishing canonical: https://time.com/3671702/fireworks-benearth-frozen-lake-sweden/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-16T17:04:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:01.328Z og:title: Here's What Happens When You Set Off Fireworks Beneath the Surface of a Frozen Lake og:description: A whole new way to go fishing og:url: https://time.com/3671702/fireworks-benearth-frozen-lake-sweden/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3452fb9518fdf6fe/69877a6c35ba6f616dc068fd/fireworks-underwater.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2010 og:image:height: 1131 og:image:alt: fireworks-underwater og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Happens When You Set Off Fireworks Beneath the Surface of a Frozen Lake twitter:description: A whole new way to go fishing twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3452fb9518fdf6fe/69877a6c35ba6f616dc068fd/fireworks-underwater.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What Happens When You Set Off Fireworks Beneath the Surface of a Frozen Lake by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 16, 2015 5:04 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jan 16, 2015 5:04 PM UTC Ever wonder what it would be like to set off a rocket beneath the solid surface of a frozen lake? Probably not, but now you can find out anyway, so why not. A YouTube user named Nils Bremer kindly [shared this video](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5yDqG4g1E4bfWqhHXsBEkw), which shows him standing on a dock atop the surface of an icy lake in Sweden. He uses the end of a broom to crack a small hole into the ice, and then quickly pushes a lit rocket into the hole. This is certainly one way to go ice fishing. _Read next:_ [_This Is the Awesome Sound You’ll Hear When You Skip Stones on a Frozen Lake_](http://time.com/3510128/skipping-stones-frozen-lake-laser-sound/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3671702/fireworks-benearth-frozen-lake-sweden/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3671702/fireworks-benearth-frozen-lake-sweden/"},"headline":"Here's What Happens When You Set Off Fireworks Beneath the Surface of a Frozen Lake","datePublished":"2015-01-16T17:04:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:01.328Z","description":"A whole new way to go fishing","url":"https://time.com/3671702/fireworks-benearth-frozen-lake-sweden/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3452fb9518fdf6fe/69877a6c35ba6f616dc068fd/fireworks-underwater.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3452fb9518fdf6fe/69877a6c35ba6f616dc068fd/fireworks-underwater.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"fireworks-underwater","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3671702/fireworks-benearth-frozen-lake-sweden/","name":"Here's What Happens When You Set Off Fireworks Beneath the Surface of a Frozen Lake"}}]}] ```