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it's amazing to interact with creatures that are so much bigger than yourself in the above. sometimes a large vessel will collide with the will not even realize that part of it. i love the fact that i can do something to help protect them the

with the service ever since i was a child, i have dreamed of becoming a marine biologist, queen vehicle which have come to i was looking for projects online and found this one from the texas institute and signed up for the but the she bought it. it's the spouse of an exciting week. hi, i'm sophia mamma. sophia from the texas institute welcomes and the board bells spend a week studying whales in the mediterranean. so i don't want too much time. i'm really excited because i think this is a unique experience. i've never done anything like it before on on, on my thoughts though. i'm also hoping to learn a loss and find out whether this is something i want to do in the future that are de copied as a quick stop. what asset on your side, on the cobra test was essential on both the pedagogy the research is, will be living in very close for to down here is where the 17 year old will be sleeping. so this is the cabin you'll see here with 3

others. choose one of the top bunk. i'll show you the bathroom at the bottom. you think you can hang your things in here. ok. i hope i don't get seasick, clear, but if i do, i'll take something it will work out that will be traveling in the political century of the coast of from italy and monaco, covering 87000 square kilometers. it's erupts, largest marine protected area on time to mold in 2012 about which little is known. in the port of sun re mo, sabina. i, rosie from the texas research institute, and skip over about to write natty, a keen to get underway. the bulk of $45.00

a month severe storms has been full cost by $32.00. now it looks bad. it will be very difficult to observe the wells potential, somebody, daniel matt, go look, there's a large vessel pulling in your shoes, trying to pop right next to the research vessel. roberto and sabina are concerned that the small sailing boat could get damaged. it's fast boats like these with loud engines, the to the biggest threat to the whales out to sea. but the, the knob, you know, every day we see the impact that these big vessels have on the whales get on the trip. we often see whales with wounds caused by the propeller. you can count on that if any that, that, that me out today and you can every year was such as from texas we quotes serious

injuries sustained by the way us, they named one way or code them up, or separate tail fins. they kept on seeing him, unrecorded, the progression of his injury until in the winter of 2020 cooled him upset stuff to death. the his injury was probably the result of a collision with a ship. sometimes the battle of the ship hits have been well over a spring. well, the captain doesn't even feel it like on this photo the well was on a cargo ship that pulled into the port. no one on board had been aware of that. meanwhile 80 kilometer is to the northeast in the port of savannah, a passenger ferry is about to leave for the island of corsica. the bad, full cost is no problem for the huge vessel. it has

a note the capacity of 5000 tons and can take over 2000 passengers. captain antonio como expects to reach corsica by evening. the roots post is right through the pedagogues century. the problem is, as marine mammals, whales have to surface regularly to breeds in a month or a lot of leverage. finding whales directly in our path doesn't happen that often, but it can happen. the mobile can be done as well. reset. choose from the environmental group, cima. is also on board here to look out for wales and environmental problems like gum page, for example. but today is whether it makes it difficult but in fact, under these quite hazy conditions. supposing whales wouldn't be easy either the

hopefully we'll still be able to see them despite the weather. let's hope they all if any of the research is supposed to well, the ferry will change course and slow down the crew has agreed to get along with this. even though the captain is convinced the whale would move to avoid the ship. that's what i'm going to do. i mean, i've been sailing on these routes for 22 years, and i've never witnessed a collision. never. and it's never happened to us either. send yet, shipping has increased massively in the protected area, posing an ever great to stretch to the whales the marine mammals

play a key role in maintaining the ecological balance of the oceans. says project manager, pola tips which made by the gnostic whales and dolphins are considered the engineers of the marine eco system. so that means that because they have a major impact on many other spaces and they are kind of protective umbrella spc, do i need someone come out to? so if you protect them, you protect the entire traffic network. i think, i mean all the inter connected food chains in the code system on the box and then a little way to get it all back in sun re, most dependent cost is going nowhere because of the weather. but the team that using the time to get to know one another with homework the, my name is the money to was the i the field work, a piece of interest to get the visa we to,

i'm responsible for collecting data and i'm just going to be the main biology. my name is christina, i'm from space. and then, well, i'm part of this stuff. you're interested this week. so i'm a m, i'm 17 years old and dying here because i want to figure out if my biology is what i want to study in the future. over the next few days, the volunteers were what with the research team locating and the identifying whales . sadly, one in 7 are in judge touches for such as have spent nearly 40 years trying to persuade the government to do more to protect wales, the more information they have, the better they can present the case. we have one of the largest doctor said to him that he said in the institutions and the longest

data series on these pieces, each warranty pays 800 to you guys to spend a week on the research page. they'd love to head out right away, but the next rein front is approaching from the mainland. skip that, we're about to write. you. navy is responsible for everyone on board. spivey all coast guard. hopefully it will rain now and then be over the sabina, i really the tends to make good use of the downtime. she's going to observe wales in a different way. she's managed to convince the european maritime safety agency or m

. so to study the migrate to remove mints of whales from the, at the same pretty much so it's very exciting because this is an extremely innovative project and it's something completely new that will allow us to make it a very important contribution to the scientific community. a lot less than one edition. no one has ever used a drill and like we're using for this purpose of observing dwells out, don't have any portal requests. the people she has an appointment at the minute she at bass installed the summer. sabina, i already has even managed to get the millet tree involved normally this uh base only monitors maritime traffic and c pollution. but today the focus is on the actual marine life. 2

a suspension or the emphasis, remotely piloted aircraft is ready for takeover. one of sabrina's coworkers is also in the control room to help the military personnel search for whales syndrome pilot jones, that please it's, it's been something of a learning curve. he's used to monitoring ships and boats. supposing whales from a height of 250 meters is a whole different matter. it's much harder because you're dealing with nature. so you have to follow nature's clues to you're looking for jets of water in the movements of a c, c that i'm used to watching boats. this mission here is much more difficult here. let me see so that i find it very moving to see the different whales and dolphins.

they see chelsea that seem to have the drone is fine and precisely defined. reach the see i love jump, thanks to the sensors on this room. we have the ability to take pictures that allow us to identify and photograph individual, well, so then to pick out it is single. so it really is an exceptional source of data. i'm in the phone this from within ivy. deducting it is the driving has now been flying over the gulf of general off for 2 hours. unfortunately without success, the team haven't cited any whales today. the, during the last flights they made an stored mary discovery, capturing

a group of mazda of wales with their young a supplement with some of the chips and all it was amazing because in our area, you normally only see adults on their own coming here to feed and if we had to date have been going to keep that around their mind. jot it. could that indicate an issue with food sources, or are there other reasons? and i know that and once you've identified linkable, so instead of there could be all sorts of reasons and more of the does all of them . but yeah, the most likely one is that they came here for food. that's another reason you know . so we know that their food source, especially for sperm wells, is mainly deep c squared help of a couple of them and they are sensitive to changes in temperature. so my eyes and strongly kasinsky be they come with them. so we're looking to see if there's any connection there. i didn't semantic waste of supply such on a quarter left showing,

sabine, his expertise is also useful for the coast guards. then also any responsible for people safety, but also for protecting marine life in the mediterranean. with the touches institutes help the local coast guard now wants to develop a whale warning system for ships. boston advertising that would allow ships to take preventive actions like reducing their speed or changing course to reduce the risk of collusion that they brought up at the same political after all, that's the biggest threats to our well, he's give, we much would mean this on his pulse behavioral feature fashion. the political century is often called the north pole of the mediterranean. war 2 is extremely cool and the sea bed is criss crossed by 2000 meter deep canyons. that's a home to deep sea squids. the main food have spun wails. the corsica ferry is now pulsing through that dining waste. sim ethic. one is that when the well surface debris is the don't necessarily notice that

a ship is nearby. this is something that needs more research. you found a certain way that i lost it. i didn't see did say, but it was for sure it was too crooked to be a spin while sort of thing. well, which surface again in about 10 minutes, it's a spam whale. might stay under warranty for up to an hour. still, there was such a hoping to see it again. look when you said you might conditions are not ideal today, but we still spotted to wells on it being hooked up with all you would already know by now there the acts aside from starting monday or something. it's quite far away. maybe 2 nautical miles from our boat to a lot for that on the backend sun. we know. meanwhile the weather has improved. the

group can finally head out to see everyone is assigned a role. changing off during our the reset tokenize ation touch. his needs, the volunteers is the 1st to be assigned to the accounts no one expected us to go out today after the waves kind of go to the honda quickly is and we'll just see what's in now. we're all excited and hoping to see something close on speed on them. bad. m a has to learn to accurately assess the sea and weather conditions and pass on the information for the record. can you press here to speak? so when you've made up your mind, you tell us on that you, so you say water surface 2 per benefit below. don't say, you know, somebody steaks waves and then you look at the waves, whether they're small or she age. so gigante travel gave sort of demand. no,

i would say waves to see you did it with supply that just takes out volunteers from may to september. that's the best time to observe wells. but it's become more difficult. the weather this year was quite time settled. last winter was relatively dry, but that was followed by a lot of rain in the some box. then by skip roberto suspects the roaming of the oceans is to blame you. i'm going to do where he's got in recent years. we've noticed the surface waters have warmed steadily. yeah. last year we had a surface temperature of $29.00 degrees. we've never had that before. a few beds is all they get to see today. the site things are recorded in the long enough to 2 hours. they head back to ports. the full cost for the following day is

much better the next morning. they spelt out, sadly, sabina is wasting around just being frustrating for everyone. and no one got much sleep and the cramped conditions that hoping today will be the day of the whales. it's a nice day. we should be able to go far out to see. hopefully we'll see some saving sabina, we'll be leading the expedition the she studied biology and started off for searching insects. it was only later that she heard about wales in the mediterranean and became interested. she took policy and a number of were such trips. one brought to this area of the could is to send,

we met the deductible team out after traveling all over it at least coastal waters. suddenly 1 july morning at 6 20 am i found myself surrounded by 11 whales. so i didn't know where to look for us to go, and then i realized that this was going to be my life. for the next 30 or 40 years, let on sabrina's assistant, mario drops a microphone into the room to letting it drag behind the boat to the depths of such teammate as there were such as want to use the microphone to pick up the noise is made by whales and dolphins, they communicate and navigate to using a variety of sounds. the microphone can detect the reading, memos up to 10, no single miles away. that is provided knowledge, ships,

call spine, and be suitable, and then you get a continuous noise that's very off putting non i get the can, the by ships and fairies, all disrupt the sounds that the whales need to communicate and to see get what you need them ship and what company he's already unbearable for similar things. so put it, that'd be the but we can just take off the headphones. and one of the wheels can't do that a little bit. that goes, i know it's m as time to be on the account. she immediately spoke something at 1 o'clock to leave the 2 o'clock the, it's a positive bill, finns center, they're getting louder,

the they're clicking and wiggly cut. serena can filter out of the background noise. these clicks allow them to get their bearings in mind. the dolphins use them to register their surroundings. these lines are the whistles for communication. this is a beautiful with so very long and complex. we can't understand what they're saying, but we know that the dolphins are communicating with each other and using eco location to detect their surroundings. the dolphin seem inquisitive. coming right up to the research best. so

can we? we don't know how many there. ah, because they're everywhere, even behind this together easily share some the been suddenly fidel face disappear again on board. everything is documented dependent goes continues. it's jenny out to see leaving the coast behind them. they head out to the terrain. if the whales news, sabina gives names to wales that she and count has several times. one of them is freddy. he has deep scars on his back, presumably from a ship's propeller. she seen him repeat today. when okay,

just saying this shows us the wells extraordinary will to survive one thing, but it also reveals the inability of the power goes sensual. rachel, really protect these magnificent creatures squished? well, they see freddy today. the mario look. i saw something at 1 o'clock. the 200 meters take a look. i think i saw something a puff and a jump. everyone has that eyes peeled now. fin wales. i need to lie for a short time. if it's been well, it will have to come up to and about 10 minutes. roberto serves the

boat right down so as not to find jam all to some of us. so we're pretty close to him. but he's disappeared. he's doing a long dive, heading to the depths. they move fast under water and i will have to see where he surfaces and then there's another one a bit further ahead tab. once we've identified this one and we'll go to the other one, the, the one to how much time has passed. now the 9 minutes the

it's a fin. well many 20 meters. no. a no one. sabina nose. can you see the 2nd one? the then the 2nd way of jumps to both whales keeps surfacing around the pedagogy. neither of them is freddy, but the young crew is denied the info page of full. i've never seen

a while before. it's amazing to interact with creatures that is so much bigger than yourself. i've done one of these so not life discovery, defend well with a wide mark on it's been, it's not a natural marking. it's some kind of scar either from a ship's propeller or more likely from fishing gear, or the story about being able to get close with found, disturbing them was the office of sizes. and then those 2 jumps were fantastic, a gift bidding and to the day. indeed, the week is even after seeing them hundreds of times,

it's always an emotional moment. it's always the same. let me 1st it's emotional, but then the research are in me takes over. i know i have to collect data. the thing. sure. right from the 1st a not just from talking to the other biologists and the girls here. now i'm even more convinced this is what i want to study. credit to this, to do audio. arriving back in the post of sun rima sabina, i really has no time to waste. she wants to analyze all the new sightings. immediately i have to go. we fairly arrived the engine still running the subpoena plans to meet again with politicians and officials. she was like top and high efforts to protect the whales

i'm the crew will continue to take out volunteers to go way on, watching naturally a new generation of were such as keen to protect these magnificent giants in the mediterranean, the ones small steps for a robot vacuum. one giant leap for explosive videos in slow cutting edge technology is unlocking the potential of deep sea mining. but this time a research team will study the possible risk funds in order to minimize the

we have an opportunity to to get it right before we start environmental activists of skeptical is this true nature conservation? well, i mean the green washing rule bill billions to be made out to pub documentary, deep sea greed stats, december 7th on dw, the it's getting closer to the road and it's getting closer to our homes and slowly being destroyed by the course of climate change. next to yeah, lives in care of as a south pacific nation whose very existence is under threat. rising sea levels mean the entire country could soon become uninhabitable. we're not going to run from the program, so you're going to face it there. countries in the world we have islands and

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