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With the popularity of yesterdays posting, I figured I'd post one last shot. The portrait format allows more detail of the icy seascape.

Approximately 4hrs into my flight from Vancouver to Tokyo, en route back to Singapore we are in the Bering Sea area.

I had the blind closed on my window for a couple hours when I happened to notice some guys sitting ahead of me taking photos out their windows. I opened my shutter to see this amazing sight. I jumped out of my seat and reached for my camera bag in the overhead compartment.

The Bering Sea covers over 2 million square km of the northernmost region of the Pacific Ocean. Its borders are defined to the north by Alaska, the Bering Strait, and northeastern Siberia, and to the south by the arc of the Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, and Commander Islands. The sea's largest embayments are the Gulf of Anadyr, Norton Sound, and Bristol Bay. The Anadyr River enters the sea from the west and the Yukon River from the east. The warm Japan Current has little influence on the Bering Sea, which has much ice; it can usually be traversed by ship only from June to October. The sea has many islands, notably Nunivak, St. Lawrence, Hall, St. Matthew, and the Pribilof Islands (all owned by the United States) and the Komandorski Islands (Russia).

Area: 884,900 sq. mi. or 2,291,900 sq. km
Average depth: 5,075 ft. or 1,547 m
Greatest known depth: 15,659 ft. or 4,773 m
Place of greatest known depth: Off Buldir Island

The Bering Sea is named after Danish explorer, Vitus Bering.

I hope you like the shot!
- Dan

P.S.- Title taken from the 2004 movie "The Day After Tomorrow" which features a similar image in their advertising campaign.