time a research team will study the possible risk site in order to minimize that we have an opportunity to to get it right before we start. environmental activists. tops rules fail billions to be made out to the entries deep. the greed dots, december 7th on dw, the 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, the service ever since i was a child, i have dreamed of becoming a marine biologist clean 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 abode. they'll spend a week studying whales in the mediterranean. so don't want too much time. i'm really excited, it's 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 or the copy. it is a quick stop with us, so i'm gonna stop 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 and the barn 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 to really move on to the ceiling. 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 more than 2012, about which little is known. in the port of san remo, sabina, i really d from the texas research institute and skip over about to ryan audi. a keen to get underway, vocal $45.00, a month. severe storms have been full cost. without it, you know, it looks bad. it will be very difficult to observe the wells. but that all set about identity mat. oh 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 boats could get damaged of the it's fast boats night these with loud engines,

the to the biggest threat to the whales out to see but the, the, every day we see the impact that these big vessels have on the whales around the truth and we often see whales with wounds caused by the propeller. you can count on that if any, to that, that mean out today and you can every year was such is from touch this record serious injuries, sustained by the way us. they named one way of coda months or separate tail fins. they kept on seeing him, unrecorded, the progression of his injury until in the winter of 2020, cold and lots of stuff to death. the, his injury was probably the result of a collision with the shit. the sometimes the bow of the ship hits a fin. 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 kilometers to the northeast in the port of savannah, a passenger fairy is about to leave for the island, of course, to come. 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 passes right through the pedagogues century. the problem is, as marine mammals, whales have to surface regularly to breeds in a lot for a lot of leverage. finding whales directly in our path doesn't happen that often,

but it can happen. the mobile can be done with well reset. choose from the environmental group, cima. is also on board here to the account for wales and environmental problems like gump age, for example. but today is whether it makes it difficult. 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, must've lee and the protected area, posing an of a 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 up with? so if you protect them,

protect the entire traffic network. i mean, all the inter connected food chains in the coast system on no 5 to the kids at all, pick up the 2nd son, re most dependent goal says 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 piece of introducing it on a visa we to, i'm responsible for collecting data. i am in i'm just going to be the day in my in biology. my name is christina, i'm from space. and then, well, i'm part of this stuff. hearing to just do this week. so i'm a m, i'm 17 years old and dying here because i want to figure out if marine 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 that case. we have one of the largest doctor, sits on the set of institutions and the longest that the cds on these pieces. each warranty pays 800 euros to spend a week on the research, but they'd love to head out right away. but the next rein front is approaching from the mainland skit that we're about to write in navy is responsible for everyone on board spivey all coast guard. hopefully it will rain now and then be over to me

or the subpoena i really depends 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 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, i like only addition, no one has ever used a drill and like we're using for this purpose of observing dwells out to me but all

the quest, the people. she has an appointment at the minute she at bass in south santa 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 the, the emphasis, remotely piloted aircraft is ready for take of one of sabrina's coworkers is also in the control room to help the military personnel search for wales syndrome pilot jones that please it's is being 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 the boats. this mission here is much more difficult. that's me. see. so that i find it very moving to see the different whales and dolphins, chelsea that seem to have the drug and is flying and precisely defined to 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 drone has now been flying over the gulf of general for 2 hours. unfortunately without success, the team haven't signed to any whales today. the during the last flights they made an extraordinary discovery. capturing a group of mazda of wales with then young as supplemented some into chips and all it was amazing because in our area, you normally only see adults on their own coming here to feed that have been going to keep better off their money on it could that indicate an issue with food sources or are there other reasons? and i know that once you've identified linkable, somebody said it, there could be of sorts of reasons and more the just 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 sound like you said, see they come with them. so we're looking to see if there's any connection there out is the amount of ways to supply such on a quarter like showing sabina is expertise is also useful for the coast guards. then also any responsible for peoples safety, but also for protecting marine life in the mediterranean. with the texas 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 action, like reducing their speed or changing course to reduce the risk of the collision that they bought up at the same people equal. after all, that's the biggest threats to our well he's, he's give,

we much would mean this on his both behavioral speech without the political century is often called the north pole of the mediterranean. the warranty was 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 of spam whales, the caustic, a fairy is now pulsing through that dining room. sim ethic. one is that when the well surface to breathe, they don't necessarily notice that a ship is nearby. this is something that needs more research. you found a certain way that i lost. i didn't see to say, but it was for sure. it was too quickly to be seen while store that i said, i'm not feeling well with surface again in about 10 minutes. that's a spam whale. might stay under water if up to an hour still the rest such as a hoping to see it again. the look when you said you

must conditions are not ideal today, but we still spot a to wells on a been with up with all you would already know. love on out there. so the acts aside from starting monday or lessons installed. it's quite far away. maybe 2 nautical miles from our boat to a point 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 account. no one expected us to go out today after the waves came into the hall about quickly is some of the key and what's in now. we're all excited and hoping to see something close on speed down them bad. m a has to learn to accurately assess the sea

and weather conditions and pass on the information for the reco. janet, if you press here to speak. so when you've made up your mind, you tell us on that you, so you say water surface to load up signal state waves. and then you look at the waves, whether they're small or huge. so gigante trouble can sort of commend. no, i would say waves to see you to, to catch this 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 unsettled. last winter was relatively dry, but that was followed by a lot of rain in the some box. then by skip roberto suspects the booming of the oceans is to blame the i'm going to do with these cuts in recent years,

hawkins. 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 logs. it's enough to 2 hours. they head back to ports. the full cost for the following day is much better the next morning they start tacitly 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 something sabina, we'll be leading the expedition the she studied biology and started off for such an insect. it was in the late to 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 coast of sand. ree my came out after traveling all over it at least coastal waters. suddenly 1 july morning at 6 20 am. i found myself surrounded by 11 wheels, so i didn't know where to look 1st of all. 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 let get dragged behind the boat to the depths of such

teammates as there was 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 marine mammals up to 10 knows equal 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 again. one of the wales can't do that. a little is that goes,

i don't 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 defense, they're getting louder. the same for their clicking and wistfully katerina can filter out of the background noise. these clicks allow them to get their bearings, 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 dolphins seem inquisitive. coming right up to the research best. so can we? we don't know how many there are because they're everywhere, even behind it. so that's fair. some the vin, suddenly adults 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 encounters 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 whales. 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, if in, well, it will have to come up to and about 10 minutes roberto supposed to be right down so there's not to find him. yeah, i'm all, 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 5. it's a fin. well, many 20 meters? no. no one. sabina nose. can you see the 2nd one? the

then the 2nd way, oh, jumps to those whales keeps surfacing around the pedagogy. neither of them is freddy, but the young crew is denied the info page of old and i've never seen a while before. it's amazing to interact with creatures. so to so much, because in yourself i've done one, we still not like 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

being able to get close with found, disturbing them was the salad. and then those 2 jumps were fantastic. a gift. updating 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 day, not just from talking to the other biologists and the girls here. and now i'm even more convinced. this is what i want to study. and when we talk,

what other people this to dot it was 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 plans to meet again with politicians and officials. she was that top and high efforts to protect the whales. the crew 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

there's too much entrepreneur in to noon now do ours or in his sons and come to told electronical devices all dismantled. absolutely. every thing that was still usable is reuse. the rest is disposed of pro eco india. in 30 minutes, dw, the

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