Bering Sea Crossing

Saturday May 9th is the beginning of our ocean crossing from Kushiro, Japan to Kodiak, Alaska. Due to weather conditions further south we will be taking the northern great circle route across the Bering Sea. This entails passing through the Aleutian chain of islands at either end.

The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line on the Earth’s surface, roughly following the 180° meridian through the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It marks where the calendar date changes by one day.

• When you cross the IDL traveling westward (toward Asia), you skip forward one day (Monday becomes Tuesday).
• When you cross the IDL traveling eastward (toward the Americas), you go back one day (Tuesday becomes Monday).

We are due to cross the International Date Line on May 11th which means that we will actually experience Monday May 11th twice as we adjust. We will also be adjusting ship time forward by 1 hour each night. Confused??

We are due in Kodiak, Alaska on Thursday May 14th so there will probably be no further posts until then unless we see anything spectacular on the way.