tv [untitled] November 6, 2011 2:31pm-3:01pm EST
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this week as russia's ambitious experiments walk round trip to the red planet came to an end in moscow a six month crew successfully code for five hundred thirty days of isolation. but next a special report on the remote beautiful and very chilly land where i spoke linger through the summer it's coming right up for you. rushes for east the northeast york is sailing to the most remote part of the sea of a halt. if email from the interior or 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 the journey is very dangerous if we're going to. the marquis's captain is accompanied by six tourists. the aim is to reach the shan top islands and find the all chappelli goes the
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biggest quality of seals isn't it lonely out here where the only one failing. to travel is 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 and left to reach the shantel 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. of course this is a dangerous area for her our men are the great risk here for her for anyone trying to get through this two hundred kilometer stretch will have to cover it in one go
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the newborn or floor of course but 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 sea of a whole is full of danger ships crush it every year in two thousand and four 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 worst it. is fifty five years old and he is a professional sailing teacher the first visit to the shanta orleans when he was very young building a yacht was his hobby now he uses it to take tourists to the shanty limbs.
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makes a stopover in chicago 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 you go it's great that you arrived safe if you must attack allah welcome to. is the love of god that i don't say your captain is an incredibly brave man oh if he were 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. purposes of there's a sense of dolphinariums in russia and the brute. if they spend most of the time
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underwater 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. 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 we 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
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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 a human hand. but the one you know you hold it by the gills be quiet for a moment it should come up to you to teach you that it is a mile it will instantly pop up on whether something's coming yeah that's him down there. and if you look at that. don't they look great if you don't mind and they still hungry i'm speechless they wonderful.
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can become stronger the travelers decide to hurry on and reach the shores of the shanty or limbs before the storm hits the back of the box three genevieve feel that you know your manhood this is how the c. of a cause greets everyone. always you know when you. people in the sailing. with the with the strong winds whip up waves up to three meters high the yacht could capsize at any moment the sea of 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 toilet is not a single bay to hide from the storm. as luck would have it to know he has not yet moved far away from their previous stop on the idea. of. the seafarers spend
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several days in the tiny fishing village on a small spit of land. stuff only we have been waiting for the storm to subside for almost three days and still the thirty meters a second wind almost knocks you off your feet local fishermen have given a shelter when there's an elderly aunt is 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 hearty sees several days to calm down completely. this is the second day we've been sitting around waiting for the sun to shine before the bombings broken down today was
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a first catchable had fish food is running out. if this is exactly their magic journey were up to when we set out. five days later when the weather improves the seafarers decide to resume the journey. says uncle scap said. this to more than two hundred kilometers to the shan toilets the captain is charles of 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. of a phone it isn't so bad now given that if the waves are just one meter high the
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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 force with. a curious port 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. but you know how it's the size of all boat. it's underneath oh look it's coming up our. family. killer whales the most colorful as belonging to the dolphin family they come to new
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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 attract them. jerry goes down it goes. it's a male superpower. 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 shantelle means island. the participants in the expedition decide to cut the route short to get to that
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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 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 create a swirling vortex as a result the boat looks as though it's sitting on boiling water. 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
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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 luxemburg anyone wishing to see the many natural wonders will take several months to see them. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand supremum is not enough inpatient beds not on the third emergency department beds and not enough nurses to man those deaths 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 do and i started out going to just do fire fighting
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it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical that 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 of 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 the least. close up team has been to them. for technological breakthroughs say humanoids. she goes to the scene. a little unusual ways to protect nature.
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where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. but where future developments depends on the way. coast should close up on our t.v. . the your to reach is a safe way 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 that. flow would offer through all these frequent storms drive driftwood from the shore the driftwood ends up here go to sleep or dead if that has been a long journey this place is not suitable for a stopover. it's
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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 toy changes twice a day. the difference in water level can be as much as eight meters during the night the 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
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our journey. to. the islands or inhabited by a great many animals but the pose the biggest threat to humans. coming here make a point of camping out in the open territory that can be easily monitored. twenty five twenty five project or three six hundred eighteen. the with the station is the only place on the show where people live all year round it situated in the middle of bolshoi. the station's message of. monitors the weather report stated to the mainland morse code is the most reliable way of transmitting information over long distances. the best to you.
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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. 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 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
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a few items at a time in a preheat oven three tins of baked for forty minutes. oh no our. 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 with salmon. anatoly 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
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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. and they were whalers from north america where this is where a large amount of facts were rendered. grindr was used to mincemeat. there 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 in. anatoly dover duke is sixty two years old when he sets out for the forest he always
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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 is all or no with cuba aboard. the bears on shantel island or a big threat they tend to come up to i'm a told these food supplies rather than the hunter himself. only i mean there in my case was yards of about on the line i had made sure she couldn't get inside the store house really so she sent her cub there let me run the cubs through i did what i could find in the store house when the two men outside had a big feast. as a fountain all 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 shantel bez or inquisitive but not aggressive.
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yeah he's the boss and he's behaving like wonderfully. well i mean does tapes amount as if he were working on flat ground which is he looks like a clumsy animal but he would catch up with you in no time and. even if you a scared out of your wits you'd still be as fast as he came into i mean. there's no trace of him any more. the bad has retreated to the forest the key. 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 spied for him you can do thank you sweetie fish. a small river
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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 freshwater fish. words are going to read our best seem to be only too willing to get caught i can't help it on the lawn. there are found all she she had and when i do those here . there are dozens of fresh water and salt water fish to be found in the shanty. among the hunchback simon flat fish and trout. in the morning do you know i keep it through its main destination the clue to cheap oil and. the put it put it. we are approaching to teach it i learned
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it's in a northeastern straight line and we can't see anything because of the fog over so we have to rely on navigational aids if we are lucky enough we might see a colony of seals. with the help of the g.p.s. the york makes its way through thick fog and drops by the are looking to. come on the waiting for the signal. to. go off like say i'm going to say when go ahead. sir. all in this home to numerous rookeries here seagulls cormorants and other birds make the nests. but the most interesting attraction of the island is the vast
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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 done on this call when we were still on board we noticed somebody thing seals were going see try 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 a long time seals were the target of hunters but now the practice is bad 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
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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 if. the seals move slowly but they are excellent swimmers they can dive down to a depth of five hundred meters and so to food. the nike 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 away seems easy.
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and also tonight in greece crucial talks are underway to negotiate for we can do coalition government the prime minister resignation is expected any time soon. plus the battle for america police crackdown on a peaceful end to call for the occupied movement spreading across the country for nearly two months now. russia questions the galaxy a victim trial after a new york jury found the business guilty of international arms trafficking. and a mind mission the boss came one step closer to reality this week as russia's ambitious experiment round trip to the red planet successfully ended in moscow after a five hundred twenty day.
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