long and rests with damascus blaming armed gangs for the violence. and the year of the protests there as twenty levin draws to a close it's the revolutions and rallies around the globe that made it water was the arab spring we often find movements europeans walking out against ever growing because we're just some of them. well up next we visit the waters of the white sea as mad for childress and kite surfers. 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. squeals and cracking sounds can often be good around the mouth. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice. the white sea is the natural of the top to. the 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 queue and 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 first. before you start singing these. are your best. is sure what. gives our throat some fish oil. if my let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . my three want to bring us to ring was that your. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. polluted cobs are of

a dark blue color thank you when they are 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 beluga whale is not a stupid fish as many believe are the key. you need to tell them 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 he's nice reasoning. in the come the luck should day of the white see specialists from the speeches but branch of the scenario in cooperation with the optics circle dive center of such.

opening closure for the legal whales. the nearest settlement is the village of milwaukee bucks 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 pull the divers visitors from to from different countries around they dream of getting a close look appealing to 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 call i heard about. this same company. this trip. and then when they said they were doing this dive with thought for

got to do it moving to russia. anyway so far north pacific place to visit specie for the toddler photography disability does speak to people in south africa about the watch either i don't know where it is of all it's a whole new experience for me you know iowa 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 warm water compared to here. in order to get to the depths of the want to see winter divers first time to break through the frozen sea. 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. the word for

this device was invented by ancient people it's a type of leadership that was taken it a step further and designed an intelligent device for snowmobiles to lift chunks of ice whistling nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does the job of for girly men. i starting in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hotspots bannister's are situated near every water hole 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 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 heat up first and then you have a dry suit which is all that it has seals the deal of the day in theory it's not supposed to allow a person if you have an inflatable hose here and it up those 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 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 oath. your oath your oath the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor you like to tosca is to learn to navigate under the ice to exchange signals with your partner correctly and to control the equipment. cool. by studying 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 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 carpet. 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.

just. her being here for sure we had a mortar. it was true ari didn't want to come where. we only need ice cream that's going to be have a beer at that. thing where you. go. from point 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 founds. only going to fail 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 could be on the roads but almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes a three metre parachute is good for strong winds something in 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 or since all of them will kill you forward if you want a diversion. by

much be a good you look like you're catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should yeah 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 and make mincemeat out of me i mean of that yesterday again the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the will. lead.

oh and. the folks science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. me leave the eve. of. beluga train alexander in biology. snow talia are cut off

from civilization. they live in the village of new monkey and work in the nearby arctic circle dive center. but 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 belugas knew him a tree owner would go to the wife see dolphinarium when they were about one year old. alexandra 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. i

. train in 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. but of course very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them and to sing in you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off animals ability to leap or carry balls in there to say we've been pretty clear people simply communicate with the living creatures you will see just the old. palookas get attached to humans very quickly if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. the thing with you when you look at your

sometimes their skin ages you and i have certainly experienced that thoughts but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched out of what you're going to turn 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 you could feel many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off when protect our charges. if. this is an offshore enclosure for 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. there they can resurface to brief. large patches of open water close to the

village of new model never freeze over thanks. according to geological evidence the white sea appeared some twenty thousand years ago. the people who first settled in this northern land five 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 which means black river. it is first mentioned in historical scripts in fifteen eleven. the judge stanza. of 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 flung the white sea coast and reached the shores of spitzbergen island even the women made the longest sea trips. the women went fishing in the sea 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 can lose their own in a particular way. as men usually sit with their backs facing forward and negative at the local women sit facing each other like this. or that is. also so so the course of the trip to a fishing area takes a long time. in winter time far

from cho not rich their old 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 time 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 of all their triggered by the moon's orbit around 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 it's within months of goodness names that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of the building of ice frozen to the rock.

and by and feel today 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 they 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 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 ambon flood. 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 see the americans a visit to the moon and probes of landed on mars. isn't eunice 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 this place than they do about what's under the sea of bush's visions but . there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world today one of the most remote ones is in the candle laps of gulf of the white sea. and old wind powered generator is the symbol of the biological 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 see ida

ducks ensuring they stay here. by just spend nearly all of their 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 there 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 flash things together sit 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 bomb 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 palookas 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 because nowhere else in the world can you communicate with blue whales in their natural habitat our national that's our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we were 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 the is the syllable in the pride and. the whales oh it's calf will die was 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 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 answer back with their unusual speech. for that reason sailors nicknamed them sea canaries.

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