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hundred bears stay with us. rushes for east the northeast york is sailing to the most remote part of the sea of a whole school. if you miss the boeing three of them were intrigued by the remote places a little bit with. the nike yacht leaves behind busy sea lanes to set sail for the most uninhabited stretch of water. for yachtsmen in this part of the journey is very dangerous there for a lot of. the marquis's camps it is accompanied by six tourists. the aim is to reach the shan top islands and follow in the ultra color 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 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 portend a storm moved in two hundred kilometers a left to reach the shanta arlen's 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 cold waves might toss it on to a sandbank if it's close to the shore. but i've heard of course this is a dangerous area for her men are greater risk a year or more for anyone trying to get through this two hundred kilometer stretch will have to cover it in one go on a board or floor of course if you haven't gone too far away from it sure 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 cult is full of danger ships crush it every year in two thousand and four a yacht called disappeared near the shores of the shanty 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 idea. 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 limbs. makes a stopover in chicago foil and 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 is there
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you go it's great that you arrived safe if you must search akala welcome to chicago and if you look at that i don't say if your captain is an incredibly brave man oh is he like a. chink 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 paroled. 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 they 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 hand 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
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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 up to you to fix it if it is a mile it will instantly. something's coming yeah that's him down there. and you thinking wow look at that. don't they look great thank you so much and is still hungry i'm speechless they wonderful. even become stronger the travelers decide to hurry on and reach the shores of the shanty or looms before the storm hits. the middle of the long beach area do you feel that you know if this is how the c. of a cause grief several. only if you know the way you. people in the sailing. with
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the weather strong winds whip up waves up to three meters high 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 sham toilets there's not a single day to hoist from the store. as luck would have it the nokia has not yet moved far away from their previous stop on the. call of. the seafarers spend several days in the tiny fishing village on a small spit of. the surface stuff only we have been waiting for the storm to subside for almost three
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a day since the thirty meters the second wind almost knocks you off your feet local fishermen have given a shelter and there's an elderly aunt isn't 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 complete faith. this is the second day we've been sitting around waiting for the sun to shine before the bombings broken down today was a first catch of bullhead fish food is running out. if this is exactly the magic journey were after 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 course captain. this to more than two hundred kilometers to the shanty harlem's 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. it isn't so bad now you remember if the waves are just one meter high or three it's 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 she offers it with.
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a curious port of killer whales is attracted to the small boat this part of the sea of a cause is rich with salmon in the summer they spawn in the rivers of the shutoff islands providing plenty of food for the killer whales. but you know the law it's the size of all boat. it's underneath oh look it's coming up our real. killer whales the most colorful as belonging to the dolphin family they come to new groups that have an intricate social structure when chasing sizable prey they can swim as fast as fifty five kilometers an hour they're not afraid of people although they rarely attack some. of us geragos their
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egos. it's a male soon car. fuku. 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 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
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a stronger than anywhere in the world the slow moving yachts 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. there are massive currents here and 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 islands 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
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wishing to see the many natural wonders will take several months to see them. those who are fascinated with history. to those who have a sweet to. those who can't live without the sky. and of course to the nature lovers this magnificent land offers its treasures. between earth and the sky. on our team. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the walls street they have to. leave the sentence
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when your chance to choose to use it to get with for example the status of the human experiment is exploding with thirty weeks you will proclaim this in this rap music what it knows to kill me slowly trying to make sense of global economy and it's on changelings us financial temple the research scrambling to maintain our confidence in long kids and thinking on the primitives quantities in trade imbalances recession looks to be nations close to collapsing in sub prime loans to close homes people can expect to fail switchblade banks again feel level such thing as a us crash and imminent smash the ceiling seems clear despite quite a few classes in athens three for the i.m.f. in construction and just programs increase that to an economist.
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the lib. through suits. to. the treaties the safety. of the crew called 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.
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of all these frequent storms drive driftwood from the shore the triffid ends up here go to sleep or dead if that has been a long journey this place is not suitable for stopover. it's a block to all sorts of things. the 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 small wind can reach it. the toit changes twice a day. the difference in water level can be as much as eight meters during that the water receded and the. bank the captain seizes the opportunity to check his
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yacht for any damage done. well while the captain most asleep on the job the tide turned around and left is here. now that it's 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. positions coming here make a point of camping out in the open territory that can be easily monitored. twenty five twenty five hundred three six hundred eighty. three with the station is the only place on the show where people live all year round it's
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situated in the middle of bolshoi. the station's marriage of. monitors the weather reports data to the mainland morse code is the most reliable way of transmitting information over long distances. all 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 keeps saying if. you have to tread carefully to avoid slipping spreading 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 if there is an emergency help won't be coming for quite some time
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. 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. oh no our modern 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 delights of bread with cloud barry and sandwiches with red caviar. this delicacy is considered an every day food here on the islands which are rich with salmon. anatoly devant uke is the
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island's oldest resident he has many stories about severe storms and unexpected meetings with baz. of the coming here in one thousand nine hundred he was the weather station chief jeff a several years when he quit a 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 all too. 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 you know what but there was no electricity only machines the power's all prevention the meat grinders world driven by bel air two belts were used.
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if 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 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 or not with you the 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 there in my case was yards of about following the law i had made sure she couldn't get inside the store house about really so she sent her come where the cubs threw out what i could find in the store house and when the two men outside had
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a big feast. as a fan of the show. there are a total of two hundred living here the trails nearly always leads to the miles of small rivers where fish it is that an encounter with a bear is most likely shantel bez or inquisitive but not aggressive. yeah he's the boss and he's behaving like one with a. limp what i mean was tapes and mounds 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 means i mean. they're not interested in any more. the bad has retreated to the forest the captain can land the year old to allow the travelers to go ashore and cook.
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my mom who has some fish leave it for her and just how do they like it oh boy let's go could be spied for him thank you thanks we 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 travelers only happy to finally land some fresh water fish. words are going to read on best seem to be only too willing to get course i can't help but on the line. there are families she she had them when i did those. there are dozens of fresh water and salt water fish to be found in the shadow arlen's among them a hunchback simon flat fish and trout. in
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the morning to your liking it's ritz made destination to cheap oil and. the put it put it. we're approaching new teaching island it's in a northeastern strait and we can't see anything because of the fog. so we have to rely on navigational aids if we're 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. don't come on the waiting for the signal. to. go off and they say i'm going to say when go ahead. sir.
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all in this home to numerous rookeries here seagulls cormorants and other birds make their 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 do miss is that on this coast when we were still on board we noticed somebody thing seals were 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 mullahs and ground fish for a long time seals were the target of hunters but now the practice is bad and.
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the seals do notice the people and 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. seals can be very aggressive they can even fight that's why the tourists treat these creatures with cat. just look at this little tail and flee from. all natural 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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the nikkei has covered almost seven hundred kilometers it's still just a couple one third of that distance again to come full circle but then the return journey always seems easy.
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