In the marine relay a «meeting of the Sun» was attended by more than 60 athletes from 17 countries. In the team entered the world and king-swimmer Victor Gordlevsky winter road. The International swim was confined to a few anniversaries — «365 years of Seeds Dezhneva to the present day,» the 100th anniversary of the Yakutsk branch of the Russian Geographical Society and the 70th anniversary of the airway AlSib. This year, the organizing committee of intercontinental relay-race swim headed commander of the Eastern Military District Admiral Konstantin Sidenko. Pacific Fleet forces, air force and air defense of the Eastern Military District provided the delivery, maintenance and safety of the participants of the project all along the route. Start intercontinental relay-race swim was given on August 6 Cape Dezhneva in Chukotka. Width of the Bering Strait at its narrowest point is 86 miles away. It was planned that the «walrus», or «polar bears», as they call themselves fans of foreign diving in cold water, will overcome the distance in 40 hours, passing the baton to each other, but the storm broke, and in the middle of all the participants of the relay swim a few hours to wait out bad weather aboard the hospital ship. Then arctic marathon continued. Ceremonial finish was held at Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. After the celebrations on American soil members at the hospital ship «Irtysh» Pacific Fleet arrived port Nome. This morning, 24 foreign athletes who have had a U.S. visa landed and stayed in an American port. In the near future all the other participants to «Irtysh» go to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.