tv [untitled] November 5, 2011 11:31pm-12:01am 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 email from the interior is the more intrigued by the remote place it will meet with. the milky yachts 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 here for me unless. the marquis's captain is accompanied by six tourists. the aim is to reach the shan top islands and find the all chappelli goes from the biggest call of the of seals isn't it lonely out here when the only one failing. to travel is 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
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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 floyd 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. road of course this is a dangerous area or else men are great risk here horrible for anyone trying to get through this two hundred kilometer stretch will have to cover it in one go the need for your 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 york has a month's supply of fresh water and fuel on board however every trip across the sea of all cults is full dana. ships crush it every year in two thousand and four
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a yacht called disappeared near the shores of the shanteau 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. is fifty five years old and he is a professional sailing teacher he first visited the shanta orleans 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 stopover of to cut off all 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 it's great that you arrived safe now if you must search akala
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welcome to chicago love and the love of god that the next a captain is an incredibly brave man no way he left. 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 the center dolphinariums in russia and the broad. 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 they capacity for adapting to new environments is not good. at present. there are some twenty white whales in the facility they take about
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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 the adaptation in a new place training is easy each animal has a distinct character some are bold others are timid features one requires an individual approach. since the white whales have not yet become accustomed 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 a human hand. hold it by the
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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 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 looms before the storm hits them back to the last three genevieve feel that your manhood this is how the c. of a cause greets everyone. always you know the way you will keep on 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 halts 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 hoyt from the storm. as luck would have it no he 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 land. the surface stuff we have been waiting for the storm to subside for almost two days since the thirty meters a second wind almost knocks you off your feet local fishermen have given
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a shelter and there's a elderly yacht 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 fois 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 catchable had fish food is running out. if this is exactly their magic genii were after when we set out. five days later when the weather improves. the seafarers decided to resume that
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journey. says on call scap said. this to more than two hundred kilometers to the shutoff parlance the captain is chalta the coolest fall from the coast any closer would risk the yoke 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 you come up with the waves are just one metre high or three times ahead 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 is giving us now we are an open sea and of course it was. a curious port of killer whales is attracted to the small boat this part of the sea
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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. are allowed it's the size of fall but. it's underneath oh look it's coming up our real. killer whales emoticon of course belonging to the dolphin family they hunted in groups that have an intricate social structure when chasing sully's will 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 jerry goes down it goes. in some way will soon tire of.
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wow 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 shantelle 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 shantel 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 thrown back to shore because of the powerful currents underneath the counter flows
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create a swirling vortex as a result the boat looks as though it's sitting on boiling water. but 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 are you going to just call them. centuries ago the shanteau harlan'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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from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough earth emergency department beds and not enough nurses to man goes to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to so i started out going to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours but i wouldn't say it's a francis in lynnwood for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued
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the least. close a team has been to the pentagon. where technological breakthroughs say humanoids. she goes to the scene. a little unusual ways to protect nature. where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. but where future developments depends on the way. black sea coast should close up on our key. the your to reach is the safe way the crew called set up camp by the beach it is
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blocked with driftwood that washed ashore and the shoreline is too narrow to set up the tents that. follow with us of all these frequent storms dr dreadful and from the shore the driftwood ends up here go to sleep until if that has been a long journey that this place is not suitable for a stopover. it's a block to all sorts of things or go fishing. 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 no 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
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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 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 bad as opposed to the biggest threat to humans. coming here to make a point of camping out in the open territory that can be easily monitored.
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twenty five twenty five for all journey three six hundred eighteen. the with the station is the only place on the show where people live all year round it's 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 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 kicks in if. you have to tread carefully to avoid slipping. using an eye for an axe you need to be
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careful you must always remember that this place is far removed from 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 a preheat oven to 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 delights of bread with cloud and sandwiches with red caviar.
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this delicacy is considered an every day food here on the islands which are rich 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 the way it was in the early nineteenth century. they were whalers from north america where this is where large amounts of fat were rendered. grindr was used to mincemeat would there
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were lots of whales but there was no electricity. old machines the powers of prevention the meat grinders world driven by bel air two belts were used. yes not even. on a totally 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 cuba aboard. the bears on shantel island or big threat they tend to come off to i'm a totally food supplies rather than the hunter himself. i mean a bear in my case it was yards of about on the line i had made sure she couldn't
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get inside the store house really so she sent her cub there let me run the cubs through out what i could find in the store house and when the two men outside had a big feast. as a fan of the shuttle islands there are a total of two hundred living here the trails nearly always leads to the miles of small rivers where fish boom it is that an encounter with a bear is most likely shutoff bez or inquisitive but not aggressive. yeah he's the boss and he's behaving like wonderfully. well 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 a scared out of your wits you'd still not be as fast as he came into i mean if.
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they're not interested him anymore. the bad has retreated to the forest the key. in the year old to allow the travelers to go ashore and cook dinner. my mom will catch some fish leave it for and just how do they like it right oh boy let's go could be 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 spawning 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 freshwater fish. best seem to be only too willing to get caught i can't help but on the lawn. there are families she she had them when i did those. there are dozens
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of fresh water and salt water fish to be found in the shuttle islands among them a hunchback simon flatfish and trout. in the morning do you know i keep its roots made destination to cheap oil and. enough to put it in put it. we are approaching new teaching island it's in a north eastern straight line and we can't see anything because of the fog so we have to rely on navigational aids if we are lucky enough we might see a colony of seals. with the hope of the g.p.s. the york makes its way through thick fog and drops bank up by the are looking to. come on the waiting for the signal. to.
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go off and they say i'm going to say when go ahead sir. 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 desisted on this coat when we were still on board we noticed some biting seals we were going see try to get close and touch them. several species of sea mammal inhabit the shantelle islands the ring seal is one of the
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most common they feed on mollusks and ground fish for a long time seals were the target of hunters but now the practice is bad and. 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. 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 and flee. i'm sure the seals move slowly but they are excellent swimmers they can dive down
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