Hazard spot
Bering Strait: Drifting ice
Bering Strait: Ice, fog and a very short open window in late summer. In an emergency help is days away.
- Cause
- Drifting ice
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 65° 30,0' N 169° 00,0' W
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Bering Strait: how the place works
The narrows between Siberia and Alaska are shallow and tight, and sea ice sits there for a large part of the year. The window for a passage is a few weeks in late summer, and it shifts from year to year.
Bering Strait: what breaks there
Ice contact at the waterline is one thing; the other is distance: hundreds of miles lie between harbours, and salvage in this region is hardly arrangeable.
Bering Strait: what this means for your policy
The Northwest and Northeast Passages are excluded from standard policies. Anyone planning them needs a special agreement, and that usually still excludes ice contact. Expect to carry the ice risk yourself.
Read this in full: Ice is not an accidentCruising range
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