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 water is . not a cure they are behaving strangely today. sure 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. your best. is sure. throat some fish oil. my let's try to get off.

say list of dubbed palooka whales sea canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make. us. want to bring us to ring. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. who good carbs 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 that. we need to tell them that these intelligent creatures are worthy of. they sniff not affectionate. nerium amulets to

conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible. in the condo luck should behave the whites see specialists from the petersburg branch of the scenario in cooperation with the arctic circle dive center have set up an open enclosure to believe the whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill mcu but 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 visitors flock to from different countries around they dream of getting

a close look appealing to whales and swimming with them in the natural habitats. yet before they're allowed to do so even experienced times as have to attend a special ice time and cool i heard about. this same company. this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip. i thought got to do it moving to russia. anyway so far north pacific place to visit species for the top of 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 and. i've been diving for the past eight nine years most serene topical water. mediterranean away called a cold water but now. it's warm water compared to here. in

order to get to the depths of the like sea winter divers first have to break through the frozen so. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving spokes. it is hard work so the divers take turns but short intervals. was perfect for this device was invented by an ancient people it's a type believe it 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 full girlyman to that of the top of all. i styling 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 near 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 the full venturing onto 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 so you have to meet up and then you have to go see it which is all that it has seals if you say in theory it's not supposed to allow a person if you have an inflatable he it and it up though he it say to keep it comfortable and you don't get squashed. the water with the pressure equal

air into the suit keeps nice and comfy and then if you're coming up a see you have to guess which is that a bench 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 care over your head you're ok you're ok the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor like to task is to learn to navigate on to the ice to exchange signals with your partner correctly and to control the equipment. by starving 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. 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 another old comic con tickles to give and i take greenpeace to the water of the white sea. just. her danger for sure had a more tab. it was true ari didn't want to

come where. we only need ice cream that's going to be heaven. if they get at that. thing where you. go. for quite a few people the underwater world is not the only attraction of the white sea in smooth ice is an excellent environment to kite sledging fountains. only one of fail often visits this remote place in the past he would only dive into the ice with scuba gear now he prefers to ride over the top with a special sledge and a parachute good memories 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 up to a six to seven metre pash it 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 for which you won't get to. buy much of your good you look like you're catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all the shit 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 well they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time to make mincemeat out of me. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle

a leg is finally able to catch the wind. among

the least exploded areas. untouched by money. surrounded by steep. cave paintings on display for thousands of. eastern scientists. on sea. 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 belugas 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 in your show what's most important is that this is not a circus showing off animals ability to leap or carry balsam they to me it's 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 the youth if you're sometimes their skin aitches you and i have certainly experienced that 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 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 immigrants 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 book 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 coast welders. 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 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 you know if they're zero in a particular way saddles men usually sit with their backs facing forward but local women sit facing each other like this. why do they deserve. their girls are so silly so. the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment 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 shores 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. 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 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 bay 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 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 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 creates a panic so it's like a circle you just create more and more panic very difficult to get out of that side . besides the obvious spot of getting you back to the hole 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 metres.

this is the underwater world bio filter bank. it is so cool because plankton lurking among the rocks in 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 visitor 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 and i think people know much more about how this face than they do about what's under the sea which is visions but.

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 serve 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 they latch things together in the find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings raising them together is the communion thing to do. on. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the idea 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 lead to one thought 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 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. nash as. our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we know that 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 is the syllable in the pride and. the whales are also as 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.

russia has marked the arrival of the new year with grand fireworks displays and celebrations across the whole country and at this moment people in berlin and across central europe are welcoming the two thousand and twelve. broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow where it has been two thousand and twelve for at least three hours now we welcome zagreb vienna stockholm and budapest into the year two thousand and twelve this year and i shant thomas would also like to wish you a happy and prosperous year ahead from the heart of the russian capital where the party is in full swing and while half the world has rung in two thousand and twelve the rest are getting ready to do so. two thousand and twelve first arrived at some

eleven hours ago plus and in a new location this year this year it was the independent state of samoa in the south pacific for the first time ever it used to be last in line but switched time zones to get closer to new zealand in fact this weekend they even skipped friday entirely the previous new year premier venue was in. better known as christmas island next country to enter two thousand and twelve was new zealand closely followed by russia's far east and as the new year started its march across russia as a vast territory australia japan of the two koreas china and other countries lit up as midnight passed five hours ago they were ringing in the new year in thailand and vietnam with kazakhstan nepal and india following later right now the south pacific is probably heading off to sleep after hours of celebration but here in moscow we're already over three hours into two thousand and twelve for the west dozens of

countries for you.