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the country. while next we set out to explore the stormy drafts of the wyatts see in our special reports to go way. the white sea its surface remains choked with ice minutely seven months a year. the chilly breath of the arctic ocean keeps the water freezing cold. near the coast however the high winds and bitter cold recede. that even in winter also can be seen through holes in the ice. board squeals and cracking sounds can often be hood around them. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under

the ice the white sea is the natural habitat. far from the civilized world in the north of russia on the coast of the white sea sea canaries are communicating with people with great pleasure in the open waters. of a q and they're behaving strangely today. show you why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song or it was something wrong with your throat stood. before you start singing vs. a water your best big go into is sure was more. than was a little let's give our throat some fish oil. bath now let's try to

get off. sailors have dubbed palooka whales canaries because of their peculiar sounds they make. as much they want to bring us to ring. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. baluga cobs are of a dark blue color. when they're one year old they turn gray like these two female whales. later their skin acquires

a milky shade. yes this is exactly how they should be kept by the people and society should know that the bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that. we need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affection i think. this dolphinarium amulets to conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible he's nice reasoning. in the come the luck should day of the white see specialists from the speeches but branch of the. incorporation with the optics circle dive center of set up an open enclosure to believe the whales. the nearest settlement is the village of no mcu but ok still on the coast of the white sea. it was a stoppage by local fisherman known as coast well as in the twentieth century. this

place is very remote and difficult to reach only dirt roads in the cold sea found that. such things do not go. a doctor's visit to see if from different countries. they dream of getting a close look appealing. and swimming with them in their natural habitats. to do so even experienced to attend a special event called i heard about. this same company. and then when they said they were doing this trip. i thought for got to do it to russia. this is a good place to visit the species the top of photography did just speak to people. it's a whole new experience for me and. i've been diving for the past eight nine years

most train topical water. southeast asia. mediterranean away called cold water but now. it's warm water compared to here. in order to get to the sea divers first have to break through the frozen sea. the thickness of ice is about fifty centimeters in the diving school. so the divers take. into. this device was invented by an ancient people it's a type believe it was taken it a step further and designed intelligent devices no deals to lift. nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this is a regional structure does the job of. living

. i styling in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hotspots bonuses are situated near every waterhole pier the divers change and comfort themselves after diving. according to international diving regulations should be certified by the professional association of diving instructors before venturing on to the ice. divers must be wearing dry suits to make sure they don't freeze in the water the user is insolated by a small film of air into the suit ok ok so you have to leave out first and then you

have a dry suit which is all that once it has sealed if you use it the next theory it's not supposed to allow it if you have an inflated he it and if he is say to keep it comfortable and you don't get squashed in the water with the pressure he put air into the suit keeps the nice and comfy and then if you're coming up on this you have to get ridges that think ventured out through here. a lot of preparation is needed before diving under the ice. it takes time to put on a dry suit as well as making thorough checks on the equipment before finally getting used to the cold water. divers always had under the ice tethered to a safety line which is controlled by a team member above picture over your head your rope your role the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor you like to tosca is to learn to navigate

on to the ice to exchange signals with your partner correctly and to control the equipment. i styling is fraught with danger the visibility beneath is only twenty to twenty five meters if the breathing apparatus fails the diver will not be able to surface immediately because of the ice above. the diver has to be aware of where the exit is. even in winter time life goes on under the white sea ice. on the seabed near the bolshoi christofi island there are underwater comes of kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for this seaweed.

fish move slowly through the cold war to the sea bass are used to the divers and often let them come up very close. there looks a menacing and they're not even afraid of bright light. the thread like tentacles of the sea anemones give the seabed a fluffy comment. c.n.n. money's feed on plankton and other old comic con tickles the given to take greenpeace to the water of the white sea.

dog. just. did it very rare in here so we sure had a mortar. it was true ari didn't want to come or. we only need ice cream that's going to be heaven. if that. were to. go. for quite a few people the underwater world is not the only attraction of the white sea it's smooth ice is an excellent environment for kite sledging fans. only while a failed often visits this remote place in the past he would only dive under the ice with scuba gear now he prefers to ride over the top with a special sledge and

a parachute good interest but almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes or a three metre parachutist good for strong winds and a six to seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half meters their case for any weather conditions all of them will kill you forward you won't get to. by much be a good book but you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should it is like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed i am carried away by a feeling of exhilaration you know because i am fully aware of the infinite power

of nature's forces used to just do it or they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time to make mincemeat out of me yesterday. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the wind. gusts. could. come ashore is that so much of allaah table at an area will stand it all words to tell the difference between multi-use year of two thousand and eleven the world changed in ways hardly anyone could have expected we witnessed the rise of people power on. the close up team has been to die new

stuff birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. knowledge argy goes to the far east where the timber industry attracts the legendary siberian tigers where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world. and where the country's mental well starts its way across the oceans . and well come to the hamas creature russia blows up. beluga trainer alexander and biologist natalia are cut off from civilization. they live in the village of new monkey and work in the nearby arctic circle dive center . well so are you ready. palooka wails of plays an important

role in their lives this is where they first met and then got married. let's go below go. to the believer's numa a trio enough were brought to the white sea dolphinarium when they were about one year old. alexander and natalia became their foster parents they tended fed and trained them. keeping in touch with palookas is not only that job but it is also a hobby and a way of relaxation. training belugas means playing with them any hostility against them is totally ruled out.

whales and dolphins have an acute sense of how humans are disposed towards them they respond to friendly treatment. and if we're very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them and to thing you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus or showing off animals ability to leap or carry balls and they tell us they only have been predicted here people simply communicate with a living creature as your limbs this is the old. palookas gets attached to humans very quickly. if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of with you click here sometimes their skin h's here and i have certainly experienced that but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched by to afford to turn over and offer their sides make

a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots. we also message their stout bodies. they open their mouth but we don't allow everybody to touch their nice looking tongues. many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off we protect our charges. if. this is an offshore enclosure for belugas even a natural environment in wintertime these palooka whales always flock to go where winds and currents create cracks and holes in the ice. then they can resurface to brief. large patches of open water close to the village of new mcgrew never freeze over. according to geological evidence the white sea appeared some twenty thousand years ago. the people who first settled in this northern land fine hundred years ago book

called coast to as. fishing and hunting with their means of subsistence. many of them drowned during hurricanes and storms. local still put up landmarks of the most dangerous sites they serve as a warning to others. along the shore of the white sea their villages founded hundreds of years ago by coastal is. the oldest one is jordan i read which means black river. it is first mentioned in historical screw. in fifteen eleven. the church stands above the village it was named after some trifle the protector of hunters and fishermen. according to local tradition this church had to look like a ship. sailed north along the white sea coast and reach the shores of

spitzbergen island even the women made the long distance see troops. position i look at the women went fishing in the city on rowing but they caught fish many kilometers away from their homes and they went by these robots not by ships you can still see women on such boats you know if they're oh in a particular way saddos men usually sit with their backs facing forward at the local women sit facing each other like this i think i do i do that is what i've heard also but there's certainly a lot of colas the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and the load which is off. in winter time far from. their role was several shots out of sea belonging to divers. they were located in front of the rocky shore of bio filter bank. the white seas under the influence of the tide it was a level of the shore rises up and down twice

a day. in the bay even in winter you can see a change of ice level of the coastline. you know why there are daily tides in the whites only what they're triggered by the moon's orbit around the earth of the amplitude of high and low tides in the wide sea is about two mazes both in summer and in winter all of the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level at that would you want that would listen names that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of the buildings eyes frozen to the rock. in bio filter bank a divers learn how to work in pairs on their own so that they will be able to dive under the ice without an instructor. some

divers stand above the ice hole and control those who are underwater then they swap places. after the first two dips divers understand clearly that their lives depend on those above the ice. when everything is working fine it's fine but are these funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision and you use the ability to to think like which increases your breathing and this and create a panic so it's like a circle you just create more and more panic very difficult to get out of that side . decides the obvious part of getting you back to the fold this is like an umbilical cord that keeps you calm. in the depths of the ice world the sense of danger is very relative. near the rocks piles of ice a formed. ice piles up of the white sea coast due to the ebb and flow. huge chunks of ice create corridors and labyrinths stretching over many meters.

this is the underwater world bio filter bank. it is so cold because plankton lurking among the rocks an ice cleans the water and also gives it unique colors. divers call this place the ice kingdom. bus so you can fly to another planet nobody can certainly. not now says the americans a visit to the moon's probes of landed on mars and venus but actually another planet is right here on earth with a parallel world with a parallel dimension everything is different here and i think people know much more about how to space than they do about what's under the seat of bush's visions of the world. there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world

today one of the most remote ones is in the county laps of gulf of the white sea. and old wind powered generator is the symbol of the bottle tickle research station belonging to moscow state university. only a handful of staff stays at the station in winter young students from moscow state university's biological faculty often pairing their theses presentations. biologist yellin across nova has served at the station for twenty five years she often comes here with family in winter. she studies c i do ducks sure and i stay here. i just spend nearly all of the life time on water and in the end. it is only during the brief reproduction period that they make nests on the shore they always stick together on land as they do on the sea.

young female dogs who are that their own nestlings help the ana females to race they baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flash things together with him to find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings raising them together is a convenient thing to do. on. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the odds of dogs are never affected by the cold water they bob in the waves the whole day. undercoat is the best biological heat insulator it doesn't lead to one thought in the old days where there were new modern synthetic materials around the fluff was used to make clothes for polar explorers and sleeping bags and it's indeed an excellent insulator.

like seabirds beluga whales simply turned feel the cold the temperature of their bodies always stays at ninety eight point six degrees fahrenheit thirty seven degrees celsius. the thick layer of hypodermic fat keeps the heat in well however it makes them look somewhat cumbersome. instinct compels polluters to save energy. their easy movements never exhibit aggression. after a brief course of ice diving almost all divers go swimming with belugas in an open enclosure. for many it is a dream come true because nowhere else in the world can you communicate with beluga whales in their natural habitat. our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we are in the deep waters for a while communicate with people and then come back to the surface we treat them to

fish if they fulfill the task correctly yes the syllable in the pride and. the whales oh it's careful divers cannot move as fast and graciously as they count so they adjust themselves to the divers movements. people always talk to the whales in their own language but beluga whales can barely hear human speech they perceive high frequency sounds. the huge forehead serves as an acoustic tool thanks to that palookas has perfect echo location. in communicating with human beings they can comprehend body language and facial features. but divers or was calm

feeling that the whales understand them perfectly and even on so back with their unusual speech. for that reason sailors nicknamed them sea canaries. a lot of good.