very happy two thousand and twelve. 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 good around them. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice on 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 so she wouldn't. before you start singing vs. a water your best big go into is surely more. than was a little let's give her throat some fish oil. bath now let's try to get off.

sailors have dubbed beluga whales sea canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make. as much we want 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. 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. the nerium amulets the conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible he's nice reasoning. in the come the luck should behave the whites see specialists from the speeches but branch of the finance in cooperation with the arctic circle dive center of set up an open enclosure for beluga whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill 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. the doctors visit to see if from

different countries. they dream of getting a close look at. swimming with them in their natural habitats. to do so even experienced divers have to attend a special event cool head about the. same company as this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip. i thought got to do it to russia. this is a good place to visit specie for the top of photography disability doesn't speak to people. it's a whole experience for me i know i hear war i've been diving for the past eight nine years mostly in topical war. most things southeast asia.

mediterranean away called 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 forty to fifty centimeters in the diving school. so the divers take the child into. the world 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 hold really.

clear. 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 instructor has the full 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 first and then you have priced it which is all that once it has seals if you take in theory it's not supposed to allow it 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 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. 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 columns 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 i take greenpeace to the water of the white sea. dog. just. did it very. clear or we sure had

a lot. it was true ari do you want to come work. we only need ice cream that's going to be heaven. if that. were 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 one of 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 good interest with almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes or a three metre parachutist good for strong winds

a six to 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 pull you forward when you push. by much be a good book but you're catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should here it is like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed to go 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 power over as my yacht sledge and kite in no time and make mincemeat out of me yesterday.

the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the wind. witnesses. to history in the making of. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand to eleven.

beluga trainer alexander and biologist natalia are cut off from civilization. they live in the village of no monk 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 knew him a trio enough to go to the white sea 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. 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 and to thing you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus or showing off the animals ability to leap or carry balsam back to say

well we've been pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old. belugas 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 you 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 it over and offer their sites to 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 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 hundred years go 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 coast welders. the oldest one is jordan outcome 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 sea trips. position i look at the women when 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 in the third row in a particular way saddle as men usually sit with their backs facing forward to the

negative of the local women sit facing each other like this thing why do they deserve what i've learned also. so that. the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment which is off. in winter time far from. their own 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 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 white say 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 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 bang 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 diver 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 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 a formed. ice piles up of the white sea coast due to the ebb and flow. 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 a 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 visitor at the moon's probes of landed on mars and venus but actually another planet is right here on earth it's a parallel world with a parallel dimension everything is different here 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 yellin across 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 add their own nestlings help the ana females to race their baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flash things together in the find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings raising them together is

a comedian 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. 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 palooka well 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 us 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. our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we in the deep waters for a while can 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 although 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 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.

you're watching our duty with our lima special coverage this new year's eve the final hour of the year in twenty eleven here in moscow kevin owen and i need to know it here with our best to you overlooking red square as you can see behind us

beautiful is that chilly to tell about the minute twenty twelve is already arrived at the homes of billions of people of course of the pacific region in asia right in most of russia if you will part of them we wish you all the very best for twenty twelve a very happy new year as we prepared to weigh farewell to twenty eleven the world looking back at the key events that shaped the year and also what lies ahead of course of the next twelve months might be well as far as humanity goes there are more about the plan and then ever before as mankind third half the time to million population mark congratulations to everyone who became a mom or dad this year. i'm. more countries all the month so we mustn't forget that so it's a done of cool getting independence and you had recognition earlier on this year the palestinians also made their bid for you where members should know that still the material laws although they are of course been accepted to the will bodies cultural law you know what it's also been a year turbulent kevin of course not.