Talk:Bering Strait

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Lynne Cox swam the frigid Bering Strait separating Alaska and Russia, a feat never before successfully attempted.

Cox documents the years of training and other swimming feats that led to her eventual triumph in the Bering Strait in her book Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer.

Cox recently took a walk along Seal Beach, in Orange County, Calif., to explain to NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates how she trained for many of her swims within eyeshot of the pier and the surfers that hug the coast.

During her swim of the Bering Strait, she crossed the International Date Line -- something Cox says she found metaphorically important.

"Because really, you're swimming from the present into the future," she tells Bates. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.240.57.4 (talk • contribs) 31 May 2004.

Note that she swam between the Diomede Islands (2 miles), not across Bering Strait (58 miles). 2 miles is not so tough for a good swimmer. BIL 19:52, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I think a bridge across the strait will change the world as we know it.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.176.245.102 (talk • contribs) 08:02, 7 April 2005.

If you want the page deleted put it on VfD, this is neither the proper median nor method. If you continue to remove peoples comments you will be blocked. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 20:00, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Foul words

This article is less than a stub. If I knew more about the Bering Strait I would improve it... -Abscissa 07:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know for how many days/weeks/months the Bering Strait is completely frozen over and the period it is simply a sea?

The yearly period of complete ice cover in Bering Strait varies greatly, from what I know, it may be anything from 0 to 4 months, I guess El Nino has something to do with it.

Hey,

I work for the school district, and we land our airplane on the sea ice in front of the village on Diomede Island when it is frozen completely. This only lasts a few months each year. It can be frozen solid from December to May, but some years it only is portion of this time. The Strait itself is very turbulent, and this is what keeps it from feezing earlier or longer. We hope to have students who live on the Bering Strait add to this page over the next few weeks.

BSSD UNK 14:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)