tv [untitled] October 31, 2011 4:31pm-5:01pm EDT
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rushes for east the northeast york is sailing to the most remote part of the sea of a halt. if the new boeing theory is the more intrigued by the remote place it will meet with. the nike yacht leaves behind busy sea lanes to set sail for the most uninhabited stretch of water. for yachtsmen this part of a journey is very dangerous therefore below. the monkeys captain is accompanied by six tourists. the aim is to reach the shan top islands and find the all chappelli goes the biggest quality of seals isn't it lonely out here when the only one failing.
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the travellers on board hope to get to the islands by the off to noon of the following day but a few hours later the weather turns for the worse. great clouds in a cold piercing wind portend a storm moved in two hundred kilometers and left to reach the shanta arlen's there's no way to avoid from the weather if the vessel is cool top in a bad storm anything could happen it could capsize the waves might toss it on to a sandbank if it's close to the shore. by friday of course this is a dangerous area for men are greater risk here or more for anyone trying to get through this two hundred kilometer stretch will have to cover it in one go the newborn or floor 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 you 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
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sea of a cold is full of danger ships crush it every year in two thousand and four a year old cold disappeared near the shores of the shanty arlen's with three crewmembers on board before it's always unpredictable here if you're not prepared things could turn to the worse. if it is fifty five years old and he is a professional sailing teacher the first visited the shanta owens when he was very young building a yacht was his hobby now he uses it to take tourists to the shanty lim's. makes a stop a road to cut off named in honor of the famed soviet 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 as they
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do it's great that you arrived safe if you must touch akala welcome to shallow violent if you love a copy of the next a captain is an incredibly brave man no it's hilarious. 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 so for scientific purposes of there's a sense of dolphinariums in russia and the brute. is that 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 focus of the 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.
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at present there are some twenty white whales in the facility they take about a month to be tamed during that time they are expected to get accustomed to the 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. which to me is the most difficult process but once the animals undergo be adaptation 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 not yet become accustomed to few mins 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
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a human hand. hold it by the gills and be quiet for a moment it should come up to you to teach you that it is a mile that will instantly. something's coming yeah that's him down there. and you thinking wow look at that. don't they look great if you don't mind and is too hungry i'm speechless they wonderful. men become stronger the travelers decide to hurry on and reach the shores of the shanty or limbs before the storm hits one of the last three genevieve feel ranjoor of this is how the c. of a cause greets everyone. always you know when you. people in the sailing. with
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the weather it's strong winds whip up waves up to three meters hoyo the york could capsize at any moment to see if a halt is the cool to see in the far east if someone falls overboard they could well die of exposure. with one hundred kilometers to cross until the shuttle islands there's not a single bay to hoist from the storm as luck would have it no he has not yet moved far away from their previous stop on the idea. of. the seafarers spend several days in the twenty fishing village on a small spit of land. stuff only we have been waiting for the storm to subside for almost three days since the
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thirty meters a second wind almost knocks you off your feet local fishermen have given a shelter in. just buying into nearby vessels or about the situation is better than being on the high seas right now it's. the fierce storm is a remnant of a powerful typhoon that originated in china thousands of kilometers away even if the weather gets better it will take the high seas several days to calm down completely. this is the second day we've been sitting around waiting for the sun to shine on the bombings broken down today was a first catchable had fish food is running out. if this is exactly their magic journey were up to when we set out.
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five days later when the weather improves the seafarers decide to resume their journey. says a long call scap said. this to more than two hundred kilometers to the shanta islands the captain is charles to the coolest 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. go if it isn't so bad now given that if the waves are just one meter high of the time to head for the shantanu islands. 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 has given us now we are an open sea shufflers with them with.
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a curious part of killer whales is attracted to the small boat this part of the sea of a cause is rich with simon in the summer they spawn in the rivers of the shutoff islands providing plenty of food for the killer whales. were seen on how it's the size of fall but. it's underneath oh look it's coming up now now the. killer whales the most colorful as belonging to the dolphin family they come to new groups that have 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 attack some. of us jerry goes down it
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goes. it's a mail soon car. that's so cool. molly shannon toyland greets sailors with its rocky shores the shanta islands were discovered by russian explorers in the middle of the seventeenth century in the language of the indigenous nif people shanta means island. the participants in the expedition decide to cut the route short to get to that destination as soon as possible to head towards the opacity straight during high tide the water around the shantelle islands rises by several metres low tide rushes a gigantic mess 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 yacht runs the risk of being
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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 is what she teaches 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 there are rocks in the middle of the strait if you ignore them you're in for a good deal of trouble for you for the first call. centuries ago the shanta boylan's were part of the mainland but later the advancing sea separated them from it the archipelago occupies an area some two and a whole thousand square kilometers roughly the same size as luxembourg anyone wishing to see the many natural wonders will take several months to see them.
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of all these frequent storms drive from the shore the driftwood ends up here. it's been a long journey this place is not suitable for a stopover. to all sorts of things. the captain decides to journey on woods even though the sun is setting to get to a separate bay by the bolshoi. for an overnight stay the the waves wind can reach it. the toy changes twice a day. the difference in water level can be as much as eight meters during the the
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water receded and the. bank the captain seizes the opportunity to check his yacht for any damage. well while the captain most asleep on the job the tide turned around and left is here. now that had so much ground we can't possibly get to. have to wait twenty five hours before the next high tide and then we'll continue our journey. and have a great many animals but the pose the biggest threat to humans. is coming here to make a point of camping out in the open territory that can be easily monitored. twenty five twenty five from a juror three six hundred eighty. three with the station is the only place on the
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show where people live all year round it situated in the middle of bolshoi. the station's message of. monitors the weather reports data to the mainland morse code is the most reliable way of transmitting information over distances. the best to you. the weather conditions on the 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 spraining in rankle. using an eye for an axe you need to be careful you must always remember that this place is far removed from
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civilization there is an emergency hope 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 a time in the preheat oven three tins of baked for forty minutes. when you are out of your captain 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 delight of bread with cloud as sandwiches with red caviar. this delicacy is considered an every day food here on the islands which are rich
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with salmon. anatoly devant uke is the island's oldest resident 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 for several years when he quit the job he decided to stay here for good. since then he's been making a living by hunting and fishing he has been to nearly every remote part of the. close to the weather station of the remains of a steam engine it was brought here by whalers in the early nineteenth century. they were whalers from north america where this is where large amounts of fats were rendered nearly three to one grinder was used to mincemeat wood there were lots of whales but there was no element tricity only machines powers all the meat
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grinders world driven by bel air two belts were used. yes not in. anatoly dover juke is sixty two years old when he said for the forest he always takes his trusty rifle with him to ward off any bad as. if you carry a rifle with you and you won't come across anybody for months with him but the moment you don't a bear is bound to appear that's why you need this is all or no with cuba aboard. the bears on shantel island or a big threat they tend to come up to anatoly food supplies rather than the hunter himself. and i mean to bear in my case some of his yards of about on the lot i had made sure she couldn't get inside the store house so she sent her
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cub there the cubs threw out what i could find in the storehouse and when the two men outside had a big feast. all of the shuttle islands there were a total of two hundred living here the trails nearly always leads to the miles of small rivers with fish whom it is that an encounter with a bear is most likely shantel or inquisitive but not aggressive. yeah he's the boss and he's behaving like one worked on a. limb but i mean does the apes amount as if he were working on flat ground which he looks like a clumsy animal but he would catch up with you in no time. even if you get out of your wits you'll still not be as fast as he came in climbing out of there. from there no trace of him anymore. no the bad has retreated to the forest the
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captain can lend the year old to allow the travelers to go ashore and cook dinner. just to my mom who has some fish leave it for and just how do they like it right oh boy let's look at the spider him you can do thank you sweet fish. a small river flows into the sea of a halt the storm has turned into a lake by blocking it with a mass of riverside pebbles a large school of salmon approaches the shore as the fish try to head off a sporting but it is impossible to catch any during the spawning season salmon stop eating and ignore the bait the travel is only happy to finally land some fresh water fish. worth a good read on best seem to be only too willing to get caught i can't help it on the lawn. there are families she had and when i do those here. there are dozens of fresh water and salt water fish to be found in the shadow arlen's among
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them a hunchback simon flat fish and trout. in the morning do you know i keep it through its main destination the clue to chico and. put it what if. we were approaching new teaching island it's in a northeastern straight line and we can't see anything because of the fog for so we have to rely on navigational aids if we are lucky enough we might see a colony of seals you know. with the hope of the g.p.s. the york makes its way through thick fog and drops bank up by the island. and come on the waiting for the signal. to.
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go off like say i'm to say when go ahead it's time. for. all in this home to numerous rookeries here seagulls cormorants and other bugs make the nests. but the most interesting attraction of the island is the vast colony of seals the travellers a lucky to take a picture of them. when the animals 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. but i think this is good on this coat when we were still on board we noticed somebody thinks seals we're going see try to get closer and touch them. several species of sea mammal inhabit the shantelle islands the ring seal is one of the most common they feed on mollusks and ground fish for
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a long time seals were the target of hunters but now the practice is by and. the seals do notice the people most of the rushing to the water but they don't head out too far hundreds of inquisitive always pop up all over the place the animals are puzzled rather than scared humans are a very rare sight here. ah. seals can be very aggressive they can even bite that's why the tourists treat these creatures with cat. just look at this little tail end. troll seals move slowly but they are excellent swimmers they can dive down to a depth of five hundred metres in search of food.
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