march is being held in syria with activists suggesting more than thirty people have been killed across the country on friday alone but some critics are dismissing those reports saying it's hard to verify them. coming up so ms waters above the arctic circle going to still manages to attract tourists and kite service seeking a thrill so next we invite you for the next thirty minutes to visit the white sea in northern russia. the white sea its surface remains choked with ice for nearly 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 heard around them. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice and 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. but not a cure they are behaving strangely today. sure you know why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us

a song or something wrong with your fur. before you start singing. water your best. is sure well. let's give our throat some fish oil. now let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . it's. just my theory on how to bring us to ring. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. baluga cobs are of

a dark blue color thank 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 but the people in society should know that the bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that he. will need to tell them that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affectionate i think. this dolphinarium emulates the conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible you see snow is reason. in the come to look should day of the white see specialists from the speeches but branch of the scenario in cooperation with the optic circle dive center of. it up an open enclosure for beluga whales. the nearest

settlement is the village of no local bus located 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 pull the divers visit just fifty different countries around they dream of getting a close look at political whales and swimming with them in the natural habitats. before they're allowed to do so even experienced divers have to attend a special event called i heard about. being with this same company the organizers this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip dive with thought for got to do it moving to russia. this is

a good place to visit species for the type of photography do that if you just speak to people in south africa about the watch either i don't know where it is of all it's a whole experience for me you know i i've been diving for the past eight nine years mostly in topical war. southeast asia. mediterranean away called a cold water but now. it's a warm water compared to a year. in order to get to the depths of the want to see winter divers first have to break through the frozen sections. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving school. it is hard work so the divers take the short intervals. was. this device was invented by ancient people it's

a type of leadership that was taken it a step further and designed intelligent devices no deals to lift chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does the job of fully manned. i styling in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hot spot furnace is a situated near every water hole here the divers change and comfort themselves after diving. according to international diving regulations one should be certified by the professional association of diving instructor has before venturing on to the ice because divers must be wearing dry suits to make

sure they don't freeze in the water the user is insulated by a small film of the air on to the suit ok ok so you have to meet up first and then you have the guy sit which is all the one that has feels he is using the next told us a theory it's not supposed to allow a person if you have an inflatable hose here and it up so here say to keep it comfortable and you don't get squashed in the water with the pressure you put air into the suit keeps the nice and comfy and then as you're coming up on the sea you have to get ridges that i 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 take their over your head your rope your role the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor like the task is to learn to navigate on to the ice. to exchange signals with you upon a correctly and to control equipment. cool. 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 gardens of kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for this seaweed. fish move slowly through the cold war to the sea bass they used to the divers and often let them come up very close. they look so menacing and they're not even afraid of bright light. the thread like tentacles of the sea anemones give the seabed a fluffy comet. c.n.n. money's feed on plankton and other organic particles the given to take green hue to the water of the white sea.

fifth. thank you for sure we had a mortar. it was through ari do you want to come or. we only need ice cream that's going to be haven't been there. 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 to kite sledging fans. of 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 three metre parachutist good for strong winds three to 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 or for all of them will kill you forward when you push.

by might be a good one you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all it is like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed you go i am carried away by a feeling of exhilaration you know because i am fully aware of the infinite power. our of nature's forces used to just do it well they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time and make mincemeat out of me but yesterday. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the wind. game. playing. culture is that so much of a lot of people at nigeria will stand the cold war and tell the difference between

multiple syria 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 first plays to the most ambitious football club in the world. lead knowledge argee goes to the far east where the timber industry affects the legendary siberian tigers where the ancient native community loses its way in the modern world lead and where the country's mental well starts its way across the ocean. well come to the bars creature russia close up. beluga trainer alexander and biologist natalia are cut off from civilization. they

live in the village of new monkey bugs and work in the nearby arctic circle dive center. but well so are you ready. palooka whales 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 belugas numa in montreal now to the white sea dolphinarium when they were about one year old. alexandra natalya 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. i

. 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 of course very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them to singing you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off the animals ability to carry balls in there to use and we've been pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as you insist the world. palookas get a time. to humans very quickly if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of thinking with you when you look at your

sometimes their skin ages you and i have certainly experienced that thought you but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched by bite you afford to turn it over and offer their sides will make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots but. we also massage their stout bodies. they open their mouth but we don't allow everybody to touch their nice looking tellings. many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off we protect our charges and wait for that 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 thank. the coding to geological evidence the white sea appeared some twenty thousand years ago. the people who first settled in this northern land find a hundred years ago book called coast to us. fishing and hunting with their means of subsistence. many of them drowned during hurricanes and storms. locals 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 coast welders. the oldest one is jordan i already come which means black river. and. as first mentioned in historical scripts 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 trips. by the women went fishing in the city on rowing boats 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 thorough in a particular way. as men usually sit with their backs facing forward but local women sit facing each other like this. why do they deserve. the term also. so the course of course that the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment which is often. in winter time far from. their own was several shots out at 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 its water 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. there are daily tides in the whites. there 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 well the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level at that would you want that would listenings that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of the building of ice frozen to the rock.

in bio filter bank a diver's 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 or 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 normal panic very difficult to get out of it so. besides 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 cool because plankton lurking on the rocks in ice cleans the water and also gives it unique colors. divers call this place the ice kingdom. last you can fly to another planet. nobody can certainly not now ask 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 i think people know much more about how the space than they do about what's under the seat of bush's vision sure but. there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world today one of the most remote ones is in the come the 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 after pairing their theses presentations. biologist yelena cross nova has served at the station for twenty five years she often comes here with family in winter. she studies c i did

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 with their own nest legs help the ana females to race they baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flats things together share with me if they find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings raising them together is the convenient thing to do. on. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the odds of ducks 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 let the 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 don't feel the cold the temperature of their bodies always stays at ninety eight point six degrees fahrenheit thirty seven degrees celsius. their thick layer of hypodermic fat keeps the heat in well however it makes them look somewhat cumbersome. instinct compels palookas to save energy. they're easy movements never exhibit aggression. after a brief course of ice diving almost all divers go swimming with polluters and in no plane closure. for many it is a dream come true. because nowhere else in the world can you communicate with blue

whales in their natural habitat. and. our task is to provide a good dive that so that the whales will so when the deep waters for awhile communicate with people and then come back to the surface we treat them to fish if they fulfill the task correctly the is the syllable in the pride and. the whales o. is careful divers cannot move as fast and graciously as they can 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 hope effect

echolocation. in communicating with human beings they can comprehend body language and facial features. but divers or was trapped feeling that the whales understand them perfectly and even on so back with their unusual speech. for that reason sailors nicknamed them sea canaries. in. the.

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