Beringia spans this part of Alaska here, across the Bering land bridge into eastern Siberia.
The Bering Land Bridge was certainly an important one.
And Jesse Bering is a sweet spirited but very emphatic
Went through the Bering Strait, through the Chukchi Sea, past Wrangel Island.
So the Bering Strait swim was in 38 degree water for two hours and six minutes.
So today Beringia looks like this.
And we have lived out in the Bering Sea for over 10,000 years, and we're still there.
And we have been on the Bering Sea for over 10,000 years, and we're still there.
And I saw this one in Bering Land Bridge in Alaska, which is one of the last places that you can find this particular species.
This is different than the Bering Sea, which is off the coast of Alaska.
And I'm talking about the Bering Strait swim because that was 11 years of trying to figure out how to open the
I work at a place called Beringia.
the story of fisherman searching for the salmon at Bering Sea to our story of search for the Higgs boson among the data sea.
So we were allowed two cruise boats to go across the Bering Strait.
it's difficult to eke out a living in the Aleutian chain and in the Bering Sea.
And that may have encapsulated why our people survived and thrived in the Bering Sea for over 10,000 years.
And one thing that was really great about this island is that you have the Bering Sea on the north and the North Pacific on the south,
But they had moved ships from the South China Sea into the Bering Strait.
I worked with Madeleine Kamman up at the School for American Chefs at Beringer Vineyards.
And so at age four, we'd go down to the Bering Sea, take off our shirts, splash water over us, and pray towards the east.
with the environment, like we did for over 10,000 years in the Bering Sea, that our language is a reflection
became separated by each other as the sea levels rose and inundated, resubmerged that Bering land bridge.
Siwo, which is indeed a powerful current in the Pacific that goes north towards the Bering Strait.
So in 1976, I started trying to get permission to swim across the Bering Strait.
And they created an international park up further in the Bering Strait that was co-administered between the US
this lagoon where the grey whales come down from Alaska, the Bering Sea, and it’s a nursery for the baby whales.
that in 1925 made the 800-mile journey cross the frigid, wind-swept Bering Sea in just 24 hours.
And I ended up working out on Russian trawlers, Soviet trawlers up in the Bering Sea.
Paul Island, where I was born, in the middle of the Bering Sea, what is this?
Now, we're on an island that's 12 miles long and 5 miles wide, a very small island in the middle of the Bering Sea.
And most critically, of most importance to the thousands of years of human history after this, we were able to walk across the Bering land bridge,
I traveled all over Siberia, and the high Arctic, and the Bering Strait, and all over America in pursuit of it.
And I ended up working out on Russian trawlers, Soviet trawlers, up in the Bering Sea.
And what I knew was first to start off by contacting the local congressman, who actually thought that the swim across the Bering Strait for instance might be possible.
And it was not only that there was gold in Nome, Alaska, but it was on the public beach, on the shore of the Bering Sea.
You could go right out there with a little pan, as you see me there on the Bering Sea, and just shuffle it around,
Money tended to slip through their fingers, probably the way that those gold flecks went through your fingers in the Bering Sea.
So if you're going after pollock, for instance, in the Bering Sea, and you've got these gigantic trawlers, these things that are the size of city blocks that are just, you know, removing
I had no idea what it tasted like, but I was making these beautiful displays, and at one point Bi-Rite was selling more Beringer White