{"id":160,"date":"2012-01-18T19:21:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-01-18T19:21:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T19:21:06","slug":"october-2-into-the-bering-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"October 2: Into the Bering Sea\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-161\" title=\"arctic-11\" src=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-11-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-11-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-11.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 1600, it was time to cast off the lines and head out into the Bering Sea, and apparently some rough weather.\u00a0 In the safety of Dutch Harbor, the weather seemed fine although a bit rainy, but beyond this safety, the Bering Sea was living up to her reputation.\u00a0 There is always a strange feeling when the ship leaves the dock and you know that there is no turning back.\u00a0 It is hard to describe, something between nervous and excitement, anticipation of the unknown\u2026perhaps that is what is best about going to sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-162\" title=\"arctic-12\" src=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-12-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-12-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-12.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Leaving Port<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-163\" title=\"arctic-13\" src=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-13-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-13-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-13.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Heading out to sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>So with that, we were off, leaving port to begin our journey north to the Bering Strait and into the Arctic Ocean.\u00a0 It will be around a three-day steam to our first stop where we will pick up a mooring before heading through the Bering Strait.\u00a0 Hopefully the weather will not be terrible.\u00a0 We are trying to skirt in between two low pressure systems that would bring some rough weather.\u00a0 But right out of Dutch, the Healy started rocking and rolling and we started feeling the fury of the Bering Sea with 40 knot winds and some big swells.\u00a0 Hopefully it will calm down a bit\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-164\" title=\"arctic-14\" src=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-14-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-14-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/arctic-14.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Bering Sea with Dutch Harbor in the distance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At 1600, it was time to cast off the lines and head out into the Bering Sea, and apparently some rough weather.\u00a0 In the safety of Dutch Harbor, the weather seemed fine although a bit rainy, but beyond this safety, the Bering Sea was living up to her reputation.\u00a0 There is always a strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic-expedition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arcticocean.globaloceanexploration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}