tv [untitled] October 31, 2011 5:30am-6:00am EDT
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soon reach crisis if you need some from friends to transition. means for instance on t.v. don't come. one thirty pm in moscow these are your artsy headlock. syria's president bashar al assad believes the seven month long unrest in his country's been funded from abroad and interview to russian television he also warned military intervention could engulf the entire region and. scores of occupy protesters arrested across the u.s. in confrontations with police as authorities confiscate tends to ban people from camping overnight for you while the bad weather hits the east coast testing activists determination to keep the anti-corporate micro. feuding russian
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the aim is to reach the shan top islands and find the all chappelli goes biggest quality of seals isn't it lonely out here where the only one failing. to travel is on hold for hope to get to the orleans by the of the noon of the following day but a few hours later the weather turns for the worse. great clouds in a cold piercing wind core tend to storm moving two hundred kilometers a left to reach the shuttle islands there's no way to floyd from the weather if the vessel is cool top in a bad storm anything could happen it could capsize all the waves might toss it on to a sandbank if it's close to the shore. i've heard of course this is a dangerous area. also in our greater risk here horrible for anyone trying to get
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through this two hundred kilometer stretch will have to cover it in one go the report overall of course if you haven't gone too far away from the shore you can turn around and go back. in any case it depends on where the bad weather gets shipped it's up to the captain to make a decision. the yacht has a month's supply of fresh water and fuel on board however every. trip across the sea of occult is fraught with danger ships question every year in two thousand and four a yacht called disappeared near the shores of the shantelle arlen's with three crew members on board before it's always unpredictable here if you're not prepared things could turn to the worst if you. will for. the next is fifty five years old and he is a professional sailing teacher he first visited the shan tolerance when he was very young building
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a yacht was his hobby now he uses it to take tourists to the shanteau harlem's. deal makes a stopover of chicago hours and named in honor of the famed soviets pilot on the island is russia's only center that specializes in capturing white whales the travelers decide to wait here until the storm has passed. everybody there is very it's great that you arrived safe from us political welcome to and if you look at the next eight if you will captain you will is an incredibly brave man knew it hello to. the head of the facility first came to this island with his parents when he was a young boy after completing his military service he returned here and spent many years working as a fisherman now he is in charge of a team catching white whales and for scientific purposes of has
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a sense of dolphinariums in russia and brought. it's about they spend most of the time underwater where they can hold their breath for twenty minutes they just go underwater and stay there until you lose track of the school for the same number of males and females we catch depends on the customer we don't take big ones because their capacity for adapting to new environments is not good. at present there are some twenty white whales in the facility they take about a month to be tamed during that toit they are expected to get a customs to trainers and allow people to feed them each instructor trains a small group he feeds the mammals and observes that behavior if a white whale refuses to eat for a long time it is released back into the sea. so crucial to me is the most difficult process but once the animals undergo we had
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occasion in a new place training is easy each animal has a distinct character some are bold others are timid each one requires an individual approach but. since the white whales have more yet become accustomed to humans they are very apprehensive of them they don't show up on the surface but eventually one of them agrees to be fed fish from a human hand. but. you hold it by the gills and be quiet for a moment it should come out do you think if it is a mild it will instantly pop up something's coming yeah that's him down there. on me thinking wow look at that. don't they look great you know martin and this too hungry i'm speechless they're wonderful.
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didn't become stronger the traveller's decided to hurry on and reach the shores of the shanty our limbs before the storm hits back of the monkey genevieve feel at home base is how the sea of occult screech everyone would fly. only if you know we will keep on sailing. with the with the strong winds whip up the waves up to three meters high the yacht could capsize if any movement the sea of a halt is the cool to see in the far east if someone falls overboard they could well dive exposure. with one hundred kilometers to cross until the shadow islands there's no single day toit from the school as luck would have it to know he has not yet moved far away from their previous stop on the
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itinerary kahlo for them the seafarers spend several days in the train a fishing village on a small spit of land. so suddenly we have been waiting for the storm to subside for almost three days and the thirty meters a second wind almost knocks you off your feet local fishermen have given a shelter when there's an elderly officer buying into nearby vessels what about the situation is better than being on the high seas right now on. the fierce storm is a remnant of a powerful for food in that originated in china thousands of kilometers away even if the weather gets better it will take the fois seize several days to come down from the face. of the earth this is the second day we've been sitting
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around waiting for the. the shot. broken down today was first catch of bull head fish food is running out. yet this is exactly the magic genii were after when we set out. five days later when the weather improves the seafarers decide to resume that journey. says uncle scabs. this to more than two hundred kilometers to the shelves harlem's the captain is charles the cools fall from the coast any closer would risk the old running aground the crew keeps on track with the help of the g.p.s. navigator and america's compass. of
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a phone it isn't so bad now given to the waves are just one metre high of the time to head for the shan thailand's. we have resolved to move on because of stable atmospheric pressure in the last twenty four hours we are fine full to the shore for the shelter it is given a school now we are in open season she offers you a bit of them with. a curious port of killer whales is attracted to the small boat this part of the sea of a cost is rich with simon in the summer they spawn in the rivers of the shutoff harlem's providing plenty of food for the killer whales. mollusk the size of all boat. it's underneath a look coming up now now the.
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killer whales the most colorful as belonging to the dolphin family they come to new groups with an intricate social structure when chasing so it will prey they can swim as fast as fifty five kilometers an hour they're not afraid of people over they rarely attacks them. their egos their egos. it's l.a. will soon tire of. the fuku. muddy shantelle island creek sailors with its rocky shores the shans islands were discovered by russian explorers in the middle of the seventeenth century in the language of the indigenous nif people shantelle means the island.
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the participants in the expedition decide to cut the bridge short to get to their destination as soon as possible they head towards the opacity straight during high tide the water around the shantelle islands rises by several metres low tide rushes a gigantic mass of water back to the sea of a halt the currents in the straits between the islands a stronger than anywhere in the world the slow moving yours runs the risk of being thrown back to shore because of the powerful currents underneath the counter flows create a swirling vortex as a result the boat looks as though it's sitting on boiling water. this isn't going to seem to change there are massive currents here storms give rise to big chaotic always making it difficult for small vessels to seal the sailing here is a dangerous side from that their rocks in the middle of the strait if you ignore them you're in for
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a good deal of trouble for you for the first call. centuries ago the shan top islands were part of the mainland but later the advancing sea separated them from it the archipelago poisoned area some two and a whole thousand square kilometers roughly the same size luxemburg anyone wishing to see the many natural wonders will take several months to see them. it.
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old treat is a safe way of the crew call set up camp by the beach it is blocked with driftwood that washed ashore and the shoreline is too narrow to set up the tents that. floated off of all these frequent storms dr grifo is from the shore the triffid ends up here go to sleep or to live but it's been a long journey this place is not suitable for stopover. it's a block to all sorts of things are going fishing. the
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captain decides to journey on woods even though the sun is setting he wants to get to a separate bay by the bolshoi river for an overnight stay the the waves no wind can reach it. toit changes twice a day around the shuttle landings the difference in water level could be as much as eight meters during the night the water receded and the yacht ended up stuck on a sandbank the captain seized the opportunity to check his yacht for any damage done with a close call to get the weld while the count the most asleep on the job the tide turned the yacht around and left it here it is now that it's home and grounds we can't possibly get it to budge so we'll have to wait twenty five hours before the next high tide and then we'll continue our journey and the reason we have for that
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is that. the islands are inhabited by a great many animals but the bad as opposed to the biggest threat to humans that's why we expect dishes coming here to make a point of camping out in open territory that can be easily monitored. twenty five twenty five hundred three six hundred eighty. two with the station is the only place on the shelf where people live all year round it's situated in the middle of bolshoi shanteau island. and stations marriage of letting the monitors the weather report states into the mainland morse code is the most reliable way of transmitting information over long distances.
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to you. the weather conditions on the shuttle islands are quite challenging summer is short and in the winter the island's a cut off from the rest of the world by severe storms. when far away from civilization your self preservation instantly kicks in if. you have to tread carefully to avoid slipping or sprain your ankle. or using an eye for an axe you need to be careful you must always remember that this place is far removed from civilization. there is an emergency help won't be coming for quite some time. foodstuffs and fuel delivered to the weather station twice a year locals take good care of themselves they grow vegetables on a small plot of land and they also bake bread people here can only prepare a few items at
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a time in the preheat oven three tins of they for forty minutes. oh no are smart of your caps and the like still about of is always welcome here. he brings food and news from the mainland the meeting is celebrated with a traditional tea party and the guest is treated to a local delights of bread with cloud very dry and sandwiches with great caviar. this delicacy is considered an every day food here on the islands which are rich with salmon. anatoly devon cuke is the island's oldest residence he has many stories about severe storms and unexpected meetings with baz. coming here in one thousand nine hundred he was the weather station chief manager for several years when he quit that job he decided to stay
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here for good. since then he's been making a living by hunting and fishing he's been to nearly every remote part of the archipelago. close to the weather station of the remains of a steam engine that was brought here by where he lives in the early nineteenth century. and they were whalers from north america boy this is where large amounts of facts were rendered. grindr was used to mincemeat. there were lots of whales but there was no element tricity only machines the powers of the engine and the meat grinders were all driven by belt here two belts were used. yet not even yeah. anatoly over juke is sixty two years old when he sets out for the forest always takes his trusty rifle with him to ward off any bad as. i think area
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rifle which you won't come across anybody for months with him but the moment you don't see a bear is bound to appear that's why you need this or not with. the bears on shantel island or big threats but they tend to come out i'm a police food supplies rather than the hunter himself. and i need a bear in my case it was yards and i'm not following the law i have made sure she can get inside the store house as well really so she sent her cub there the cubs threw out what i could find in the store house and when the two men outside i knew they had a big east. as a family all of the shuttle islands there are a total of two hundred living here trails nearly always leads to the miles of small rivers where fish pool it is that an encounter with a bat is most likely sham top as inquisitive but aggressive.
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yeah he's the boss and he's behaving like one worked really. well i mean was states the mounds if you will working on flat ground really working with her he looks like a clumsy animal but he would catch up with you in no time and. even if he was good out of your wits you're still not as fast as he means i mean up there before we go . there i see him anymore. now the back has retreated to the forest the captain can lend me your to allow the travelers to go ashore and cook dinner. just my mum who has some fish leave it for us moon pound if they like it right oh boy let's look at the spy for him thanks a sweet fish. a small river flows into the sea of a halts the school is turned into a lake by blocking it with
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a mass of riverside pebbles a large school of salmon approaches the shore as the fish try to head off the spooling but it is impossible to catch any during the spawning season salmon stop eating and ignore the pate to travis only happy to finally land some fresh water fish. words are going to read our best seem to be only too willing to get course i can't help but it on the line with their families she she had when i did this you know. there are dozens of fresh water and salt water fish to be found in the shuttle islands among them a hunchback simon flat fish and trout. in the morning beyond like he had threats made destination to go to chico and. now what would you want if. we were approaching to teach island it's in
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a north eastern straight line and we can't see anything because of the fog or so we have to rely on navigational aids. if we are lucky enough we might see a colony of seals you know. with the help of the g.p.s. the york makes its way through thick fog and drops bank up by the island. to come on there waiting for the signal. drop like say come and say when god heads. for. you to cheat all in this home to numerous recurrence here see goals cormorants and make nests. but the most interesting attraction of the island is the vast colony of seals the travelers a lucky to take
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a picture of them. when the animal sunbathing on the beach they are reluctant to go on the water during low tide this is the best trying to get close to them. that you noticed on this coast when we were still on board we noticed some bathing seals going sea trying to get close and touch them. several species of seem a million habit shantelle islands the rain seal is one of the most common they feed on mollusks and ground fish for a long time seals were the target of hunters but now the practice is. the seals do notice the people most of them rushing to the water but they don't get out too far hundreds of inquisitive always pop up all over the place the animals a puzzled rather than skeptical humans are very rare sight here. because.
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seals can be very aggressive they can even bite that's why the tourists treat these creatures with cash. just look at this little tail and flee. the troll seals move slowly but they are excellent swimmers they can dive down to a ditch the five hundred meters and so to food. to know that he has covered almost seven hundred kilometers it still has to cover one third of that distance again to come full circle but then the return journey away seems easy.
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