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verify them. just ahead some of his waters are above the arctic circle it is still a truck. surface seeking adventure we invite you that the visit the white sea of northern russia next. 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 receipt. that even in winter can be seen through holes in the ice. board squeals and cracking sounds can often be a good around them. this is how so cold 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. sure why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song or something wrong with your throat. before you start singing vs. the water your best go into is sure. was

a little let's give our throat some fish oil. after the fifth no let's try to get off. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of their peculiar sounds they make. just. as much three wanted to bring us to ring. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. blue good carbs 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 but the people in society should know that the bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that you. need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affection i think. this dolphinarium emulates the conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible it's just nice reasoning. in the come the luck should day of the whites see specialists from the speeches but branch of the scenario in cooperation with the optics circle dive center of set up an open enclosure to believe the whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill mcu but location 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 doctors visit to fifteen different countries. they dream of getting a close look at police. and swimming with them in their natural habitat. to do so even experienced divers have to attend a special event called i heard about. this trip. 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 species of photography did. you speak to people to watch

that. it's a whole experience for me you know i your i have been diving for the past eight nine years most train topic a war. most sane southeast asia. mediterranean away called a cold water but now. it's warm water compared to here. in order to get to see divers first 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 one 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 insulated by

a small film of the air on to the suit ok ok so you have to meet up and then you have to i think it was just old it was it has fields if you look at the next theory it's not supposed to allow. you have an inflated post here and it up though 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 if you're coming out of the sea you have to get ridges that 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 tracks 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. their 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 covens 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. 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 comment. c.n.n. money's feed on plankton and other old comic con tickles the given to take green here to the water of the white sea.

just. get it very. dangerous or head towards her. it was true ari didn't want to come work we only need some ice cream that's going to be heaven. that. we're 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 found. only a mile 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 killer of almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes or a three metre parachute is good for strong winds the sixty seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half meters in their case for any weather conditions or all of them will kill you forward you want you to. buy much of you get you what you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all it is like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed to go i am carried away by

a feeling of exhilaration because i am fully aware of the infinite power of nature's forces used to just do it well they could power over as my yacht sledge and kite in no time i 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 with. the. cultures that so much of allaah table at the area will dance in old words to tell

the difference between mulcher was here 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 you stunned birthplace to the most ambitious football club in the world. knowledge argy 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. and where the country's mental well starts its way across the oceans. well come to the from mars creature russia blows up on our t.v. . 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. for the luca 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 belugas numa and much the owner would go to the white sea told finale him when they were about one year old. alexandra natalia became the 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 of course every man if people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them to thing in you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus showing off animals ability to leap or carry balsam they to meet them prey they fear people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old. belugas get attached to humans very quickly. if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of the youth cliff yes sometimes their

skin h's you and i have certainly experienced that but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched by to a point to turn it over and offer their sides make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots. we also massage 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 of the belugas even a natural environment in wintertime these palooka whales always flock to go for swell 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 find a hundred years ago called coast to as. 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 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 also look at 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 you know if they're on a particular way saddle as men usually sit with their backs facing forward and negative at the local women sit facing each other like this i think i do i do that is what i've learned also because there's only so the course of the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in the low just off. in winter time far from cho not rich they're always 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's was the 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 through of the amplitude of high and low tides in the wide sea is about two mazes both in selma and in winter all of the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level of that with amount 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.

and by a 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 they funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision and you do use the ability to to think like which increases your breathing and this and creates a panic so it's like a circle you just create more and more panic very difficult to get out of that 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 formed.

ice piles up of the white sea coast due to the amp and flood. huge chunks of ice create corridos 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 color as. 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 earth. there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world today one of the most remote ones is in the country 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 yelling across nova to search 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 with add their own nest legs help the on the females to race the baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow they latch things together with him to 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 dogs are never affected by the cold water 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 don't 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 belugas to save energy. they're 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 but nowhere else in the world can you communicate with blue

whales in their natural habitat. and. our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we are in the deep waters for a while to communicate with people and then come back to the surface we treat them to fish if they fulfill the task correctly is this elephant in the pride and. the whales oh is 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 hope effect

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

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