Bering ocean-going yachts are designed for extended cruising on the open sea. When faced with high seas, your Bering will provide both the safety and comfort you would want in such demanding conditions. This is precisely why Bering has chosen steel as its material of first choice. Steel fleets dominate navies around the world, in research vessels and commercial shipping as well as expedition cruise ships. Moreover, of all the shipbuilding materials available, steel offers the best balance of benefits: Strength, durability, ease of construction and adjustment, fire resistance, low abrasion, ease of maintenance and repair. These properties make steel suitable for serious offshore vessels.

The mechanical strength properties of steel have made it the first choice for building commercial and military vessels worldwide. From breaking ice to surviving groundings on rocks and reefs, steel ships have a long history of withstanding the toughest challenges and maintaining both hull and watertight integrity despite adversity. Steel ships have certainly gotten their crews out of some of the most extreme and difficult situations imaginable (read "The Grey Seas Under" by Canadian author Farley Mowat about the history of salvage tugs in the North Atlantic, all of which were made of steel - and you'll understand why). This fact alone gives us tremendous confidence that steel is the right material for building our customers' yachts.

Bering hulls are extremely resistant to impact. Steel is also naturally puncture resistant, hence its use in vaults and safes. These hull properties, along with appropriately designed hull plates reinforced by internal structural components, cross-bracing and bulkheads, increase the likelihood of impact resistance; be it a floating shipping container or a log, there is less risk of damage to the hull's integrity. Contrary to intuition, steel is a fairly flexible material. Rather than breaking and shattering as fiberglass might, it tends to dent and deform on impact.