Posted on 05/25/2015 9:14:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sonya Baumstein is about to attempt something no other woman has ever done: She is going to try and cross the Pacific Ocean – non-stop, from Japan to San Francisco – in a row boat.
NBC Bay Area’s Mark Matthews spoke with Baumstein on Monday via Skype. Right now, she’s on Japan’s east coast, about to embark on her voyage, which she hopes will end with her rowing under the Golden Gate Bridge.
Baumstein is only 30, but she’s got some expeditions already logged. She rowed across the Atlantic. She kayaked from Seattle to Juneau.
“I’ve also paddle boarded the Bering Strait prior to doing this,” she said.
The highlight reel Baumstein put together to for Her pacific crossing shows off some of those earlier trip, but this one… this is four-to-six months alone on a 23-foot boat, with seven feet of deck space, crossing the world’s biggest ocean. “It all depends on how you want to use the moments that you have in your left,” Baumstein said, “and this is the moment in my life right now.”
Baumstein said she intends to spend her free time at sea collecting data on global warming. Her boat is a moving data collection float. “What happens is, every half hour, my boat collects eight data points on salinity, temperature and weather.”
All of that info will be beamed to a satellite and tracked by scientists at a place called Earth and Space Research. “And that’s all that I’m doing. I’m a community member that is helping to get data back.” Baumstein said she hopes to “contribute to the body of knowledge” so “we can help solve these major problems that we have on earth right now.”
There have been three crossings of the Pacific in a rowboat, but no woman has ever done it. To follow Baumstein’s progress, and see the data she’s collecting, go to expeditionpacific.com.
She has a knack for wasting her life doing meaningless stunts.
Ex. “A”: “We can help solve these major problems that we have on Earth right now”
She’s either a huge flake or a beauty pageant contestant.
Nobody talks like that.
Will he have to forfeit his gold medal? Others had to for lying about their sex?
I suppoe it also depends what travel arc one takes across an ocean, too. One could be a lot less in distance than another.
She may have a decent shot at it. I hope it doesn’t end badly and that she can do it.
Argh - where’s the eyewash?
Always suspected Jenner was light in the Addias loafers..
Wow. How long did you hang on to that? My parents threw that away about 40 years ago.
I’m sorry, but I’d laugh if one of the three men who has done this would suddenly announce that he identifies as a woman. Let the media deal with that :)
Apparently, there are those who haven’t yet heard that the Pacific Ocean is pretty big.
One word..........TYPHOON
I wanna try that Gobi Desert thingy!
Who will pay the $$ to rescue her?
Although there's nothing on the Internet about it, back in the 50s, a man sailed across the Pacific in an aluminum canoe. IIRC, the canoe was decked over, and he had two masts fitted with Gunter rigs. His greatest problem? Hallucinations—especially at night.
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HAHAHAHA!
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