Swimming to Europe?

tumor · Nov 6, 2004

Is there a way for person to get to Europe other than flying on a passenger jet?

singleton · Nov 6, 2004

Once upon a time there were these things called boats...

;)

tribdog · Nov 6, 2004

land bridges, continental drift, teleportation, fax, Fed Ex.

Gokul43201 · Nov 6, 2004

If you're in certain parts of Asia, you could walk it...

tumor · Nov 6, 2004

I mean of course going from America(E.coast) to Europe.
You know why am I asking this question anyway?; because couple days ago there was that huge volcano eruption in Iceland and many flights to and from N.America were cancelled or rerouted and that got me thinking what if aircrafts won't be able to fly at all to Europe. I have my parents( really old folks))living there, how am I going to get there?
PS I checked some time ago ticket price on a Queen Elizabeth sail from NY to London-prohibitive price

Smurf · Nov 6, 2004

Didn't some guy swim across the atlantic ocean? It took him weeks thought, he's swim for the day, then sleep on an anchored boat, then swim, rinse and repeat.

Seriously, you can take a boat, or fly in an airplane, or swim beside a boat, be dragged along behind the airplane in a parachut (probably not the healthiest), but thats about it

Moonbear · Nov 6, 2004

It's a shorter boat ride across the Bering Strait (or you can wait until it's frozen and walk most of it), then just walk the rest of the way. :rofl: Bring your long underwear if you want to do that though, it gets a bit chilly up there...brrrrrrr.

Someone tried rowing across, but gave up and called for rescue after her navigation system shorted out and she got blown off course by two or three hurricanes...oh, and she dislocated a shoulder bobbing around in the last hurricane, so claimed she couldn't row anymore...wimp! :rofl: She had a cabin in a self-righting boat, and while that might have sounded like a good idea, she clearly hadn't considered it would be akin to riding out the tumble cycle in a dryer during especially rough water conditions.

tumor · Nov 6, 2004

Bering strait is maybe 50-70km wide in winter one could walk across.But there is one small problem-polar bears.You gonna look to them like nice little snack.
Even if I make it across strait, in siberia are man eating tigers and worst of them all (drunken russians )

arildno · Nov 6, 2004

A Viking ship captained by the Norwegian Ragnar Thorstvedt has made the journey.

tumor: If you ask him nicely, you might be able to loan his boat..

tumor · Nov 6, 2004

Yeah! why not ! How many days took them to cross Atlantic?

There is one option to cross Atlantic in quite comfortable way-GULF STREAM!
I would have to make raft, get some supplies and off I go, slowly but surely to Europe.
I can visit you in Norway Arlindo.

arildno · Nov 6, 2004

You're welcome, tumor!

But I have to warn you:
Most Norwegians regard Ragnar Thorstvedt to be a TRUE Viking; generous to friends, quick to laugh, but also quick to anger..

EDIT:
Oh, I see, you were planning to make your own raft, perhaps that's wiser, after all..

Gokul43201 · Nov 6, 2004

Then you could speak to Heyerdahl for expert advise on raft-building...

arildno · Nov 6, 2004

Heyerdahl is dead.

tumor · Nov 6, 2004

arildno said:

Heyerdahl is dead.

When I was small kid I remeber watching on TV his journeys on a raft.
That raft was almost sinking!Man!
Back in my youth we had only 2 TV channels in my country,and almost whole day they were showing nature documentaries because they were obviously much cheaper buy than Hollywood movies.And Thor Heyerdal kon-tiki's expedition I watched maybe 20 times
He was reall Viking to me and still is,little eccentric at times but who is not?

tribdog · Nov 6, 2004

And what type of wood was Heyerdal's Kon-Tiki made out of? ~question from Trivial Pursuit the original edition.

Gokul43201 · Nov 6, 2004

arildno said:

Heyerdahl is dead.

You never spoken to dead people ? No ?

C'mon folks...tell arildno that we all speak to dead people !

meteor · Nov 6, 2004

the spanish Kitin Muñoz tried to cross the Atlantic from Barcelona to Cartagena de Indias in a primitive boat. He parted in 2001, but don't ask me if he arrived, I don't have idea
http://www.modelismonaval.net/Reportajes/MataRangiIII/Ingles index.htm

the number 42 · Nov 6, 2004

Richard Branson did it in a balloon a few years ago. A bit dangerous though.
http://www.virginatlanticglobalflyer.com/Team/RichardBranson/index.jsp [Broken]

Smurf · Nov 6, 2004

Gokul43201 said:

You never spoken to dead people ? No ?

C'mon folks...tell arildno that we all speak to dead people !

I've never met anyone who couldn't speak to dead people.. weird.

arildno · Nov 7, 2004

Gokul43201 said:

You never spoken to dead people ? No ?

C'mon folks...tell arildno that we all speak to dead people !

Well, we Norwegians find such practices rather gross.
"Live and let live, die and leave dead" is a Norwegian proverb.