Talk:Bering Strait
From Academic Kids
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.
I think a bridge across the strait will change the world as we know it..
