this is the most important part of the year when you come here your one on one with you forget all about civilization. when the. blank spots left people with a passion for exploration dive down deep. depths . of scientific research. hunting for treasures from times past. but. the world is one of possibilities unimaginable. hi glad to see. this campus been

pitched on the sure of the black sea every year for the last fifteen. the current strait is a strip of water four kilometers wide it separates ukrainian crimea from russian territory. in one thousand nine hundred three during world war two the most terrible battles shook this region. destroyed dozens of soviet and german ships sunk in around the same time. the expedition members have only four days to explore the ships at the top of the list is a soviet armored boat sunk in the summer of one thousand nine hundred three. report. according to satellite imaging the boat is not far from the shore and is at a considerably shall. depp's. however the divers are not expecting much from the

first dish even knowing its exact location they doubt they'll find a boat in the opaque waters of the black sea. but if i go. first train diver air in one tank will be sufficient for two hours according to the schedule the initial dive is not to last more than forty minutes but the four divers spend about an hour under the surface when they come up the reason for the delay becomes apparent they found their boat if. it. was there we saw the gun turret the with this fit there is a part of the gun tower in the machine gun. will write down a description in

a minute for. at the same time several thousand kilometers to the east another expedition is setting off from the bank of the world's deepest freshwater lake lake baikal. to the people on this march floating on a huge lake is the same as being in outer space they think of themselves as astronauts of the aquatic world and their deep sea submersibles look much like spacecraft. meet mir one or two machines designed during the soviet period back in the one nine hundred eighty s. these water craft can dive to a depth of six thousand meters however they won't need to reach the dead keep in my call is the deepest parts of the lake or within one and a half kilometers of the surface. me to dip. fourteen

hundred fifty inmates is at the bottom. motorboat to near one finish taking samples begin the baling. it's the third expedition of the submarines in my call within two months the hydra knots plan to perform many experiments during dozens of individual dives. each with a bus move approach this time we will perform very accurate exploration in order to make a water analysis chart find out the chemical composition of the sediment and to finish the research on the geology old league by call of. good luck on the sofa we go. to let the expedition begin. five men a dog and then both always does the old for travelling the expedition starts in st

petersburg their destination the russian river volkov. just where sail into the river volkov. is one of there is where we try to trick the old water routes in the olden times the majority of trips were. as prison and you sail over the sea and to the mouth of a river and then head up stream to a certain city. many boats stayed in a permanent moring along st petersburg zimm banquets many ships were turned into restaurants but the explorers are not interested in these boats they're attracted by untouched history such as the sunken vessels. found by the sea you experience the strongest emotion use when you dive in finding new untouched ship and see things nobody would expect if. there are many ships in the gulf in. it's been seen only by me. the next day the

expedition heads across lake la to go to the river. it's an old russian waterway and a real paradise for underwater explores. routes were used in a trade. to use a different circumstances. when the ship sinks it stays at the river bottom and ends up being slowly come over the sand and silt. if you try to find the old ships. and how they worked. it's a plus thirty here because you have to dress as if you were the north pole. it's like a skiing outfit. on the right. members

of the expedition start their work early in the morning. drop saying above the place they believe a merchant ship was sunk. a few brief instructions before they dive this sunken target sits in relatively shallow water and they'll be able to evaluate what state it's in. it lays along and it's rather big. so you can move along the flow a bit deeper oh maybe closer to the shore and simply move forward i think you'll find the ship there. i'm ready. the first dive last for half an hour but it's not as easy as they thought the visibility is poor and it has to disappoint his colleagues. who is following the movie to the bottom. disorienting.

it's not the same as in the red sea. their colleagues. clearly showing. after the first successful dive. of the expedition plan on how to lift a fragment of the boat. the first day of the expedition comes to an end.

for a walk around. the strew long the sure is related to research to a soviet squadron was here in one thousand nine hundred three. normally go underwater tonight they're going underground a long time ago soldiers would go through these. shells here and take the wounded to a safe place. quite often members of the expedition do things unrelated to underwater research their only cable ducts and this must be an emergency exit for fifteen years businessman alexander you can has been funding expeditions to the black sea in search of sunken ships. i was born in ukraine year and as a child i used to dive with a mask and a snorkel looking for sunken ships. and world war two

landing craft. that's how i got interested in it. but well it's on the yoke and makes it back to dive in the black sea only once a year. i can't live without the sea. diving when the first appeared in the soviet era initially he was interested in the traces of ancient greek settlements not artifacts of war. yeah. you know i once found a well under water but. there was a lot of anxious to go on for as scattered around it would go. on and when i took one of them out i wanted to show it to everybody right away that i had a straight from the surface and jumped out of the water where they are in my hand it's. decision day of the mirror expedition starts with some routine

work but not all of it but this is our laboratory where we store our samples in refrigerators. there are some freezers assortment of the tables and other things a little board base of the living quarters and here is the toilet. and this is where we sleep an expedition just came in they're making themselves at home and will get. illegally stuff from the buy call research institute will be our guide today he's probably the most anxious one waiting for the exhibition to begin only near submersibles are capable of reaching the depths needed to confirm his theory of how gas hydrates are formed some called these unique deep water compounds of water and methane the fuel of the future. these will go with it at the latest four hundred meters deep in the spot the gas hydrates become unstable above this level we want to use this gas to all my hydrant on the surface where we're going to record it on video to measure the temperature there you either need.

mirrors are capable of remaining underwater for up to two days working on their own i nag is planning to spend at least eight hours looking for gas hydrates this scientists opportunities are limited as each dive cost several thousand dollars the next opportunity to see the bottom of the lake probably won't come anytime soon. the question is that so much good music. they need to cut a lot of people a stereotype but when it comes to finding solutions to the world's economic and financial woes is bigger and more better critics of the g twenty claim otherwise. wealthy british style. pastimes cuts.

markets finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g for some this is just a parliament building in durban. but then. sixty five years ago. it was the final target i'm going to minus two major offensive from the man army. his country became the symbol on the fall of the financial tsunami. and the victory over nazi germany. the following moment on r g. a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded.

nursed her and noone to suffer to the end of the land. it was the first but probably not the last military uses of this weapon. many more will me come. children calm and get on in the future. those so many years of past some former prisoners are still in law. as well for sure. those so many years and. some are hoping to find those same. others take their executioners longing for justice. those so many years of past.

memory is still in my eyes. as well. as. eight. members of the expedition have a lot to do by themselves including cooking. to make this dish we will need a lot of onion and a few carrots. is usually made with us we have none so we just use poultry. meanwhile the senior researcher is trying to figure out when the ship they're studying was built. is a russian ship the construction technique is russian weekend in german its age as of now let's just say it was built in the eighteenth century. however is the first dive shows detailed inspection could be

a problem strong currents and murky waters make it hard to get a good look at the ship the divers boat maneuvers itself in position to drop anchor right above the ship. metres. i've given up the lunch is ready you can ace it's while i may do some extra large portions so writes here i go. will pull him out later on he won't make it on his own with such a weight. an extradition of sunken ships is no punishment for these divers it's a vacation professional divers get their money from doing different kinds of work they spend most of their year studying the bottom of the baltic sea where russia is currently building a valuable gas pipeline their job is more difficult and the schedule is far tighter . ship person usually orients by

visual association you know that if a man finds himself lost in the forest or tundra or any other place that has no clear landmarks he starts going around in circles one leg is always stronger than the other one i have experienced this myself and it's the same on the water one leg kick stronger than the other one. finally finds the sunken vessel four metres below the surface. covered in silt and nets the ship is barely visible. the diver spends over an hour underwater and every minute he's at risk of being in tangled in the ship's fishing tackle. you are going to a little netsuite with every ship has them that will that when there are many there

in the vocal river you see that people have been set on them up for decades and often the nets end up lost so they quinta boats and are dragged across the bottom and if you look at some ships you'll see that there are clumps of nets stuck to them you can you have to be very careful not to get cold when visibility is this bad the worst thing is to get snagged with the a valve in that case he will have to reach around your back to unhook them like. the diver finally comes to the surface he was successful this time and this ship can be a do. here are the rods nails. she the quality they iron is clear without corrosion it points to the rather great age of the ship. sundries favorite design. this ship is loaded up with slabs of limestone the most valuable local community. doesn't have is. a four hundred meters deep depression is forty times as great as that on the

surface. down here. and the only light source. is separated from the hostile environment by a thick layer of extra durable glass i we have selected several samples i mean thing is that we have found gas hydrates at the slope of the bed deposits the second finding a bike i. got lucky it turned out that the barge from which the mirrors were lowered stopped right above the place where these unique chemical compounds are forming the vessels mechanic orms begin to collect samples of ground water. from the depths. of gives us a finding we were also looking at this time we have found the second point of where gas hydrates are at the surface. that's probably what crews felt like when they

simmers in the atlantic ocean to shoot footage eventually shown around the world. on a dive to the ocean floor by the mir vessels searchlights revealed the name of a sunken ship. was among the remotely controlled vessels during the dive to the titanic. this particular ship. famous footage that became part of the film that won eleven academy awards. james cameron i can see he was easy to work with of course it was a pleasure to work with him but i know that every time he comes i need to install a lot of new equipment and the missions are always complicated there's. rumors about james cameron coming to lake baikal have been circulating ever since

the expedition began not everyone believed to famous director would make the dive but mr cameron couldn't turn down an invitation from. the two had worked together on titanic. went well it was very calm creative even. we had a rendezvous with mir two at the bottom we move smoothly in silence. james cameron celebrated his fifty sixth birthday right before taking the plunge when he resurfaced he called it one of the most remarkable experiences he's ever had. but this completely unique situation deepest freshwater lake in the world it felt like being at the bottom of the ocean. this in petersburg divers expedition on the river is about to conclude they found several sunken russian barges over

a five day period using sonar to go in. a sand bank. i'm sure will run into a ship since countless numbers of them have sunk here over a thousand years. if you can see the shoreline here. and this silhouette is probably a ship. our vessel will soon turn around and then we'll try inspecting it again. but still managed to get a good look at the ship's. hard to. put it on the table.

that's. the visibility's only twenty centimeters. the divers in crew still consider the expedition a success their main objective of finding the sunken ships and charting them on maps has been completed. meanwhile on the shores of the black sea. preditions is nearing its end the ten thousand will be gone tomorrow but there's still time for one last dive to submerge ship. a ship. is located seven meters from the surface it's the gun turret of a sunken armored ship it's a dream he can touch. this time. i

think the ten days to spend here were quite fruitful. of course we couldn't bring up the turret but i think next year will be better. than. the expedition traditionally ends with the seaside picnic stories of ship wrecks are told along with several inciting tales and bell merely running out of oxygen to morrow these tents will disappear from the coast of the cursed strait. the home of compressors pushing oxygen into cylinders will fall silent and nobody will see the wreckage of ships hidden in a massive money water until next year.

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and the un human rights council tells america it's responsible for abuses including . in humane prisons and racial discrimination. hello this is our team from moscow you're most welcome it's now one am here kevin zero in with our top story and it's the global currency conflict that's brewing which is likely to get leaders of major economic powers fired up at the g. twenty summit in south korea the u.s. and china have been locking horns accusing each other of using their currencies as defensive weapons to protect themselves. reports know the disputes hitting nerves at the soul assembly. there'll be plenty of soul searching at this g. twenty for the south korean capital it underlines its economic awakening but there are major spots to iron out as countries circle.