the unprosperous of twelve months ahead. and we have our two special report coming up next. the whites see 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. cold squeals and cracking sounds can often be hood around them. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice. the white sea is the natural habitat.

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 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 first. before you start singing. what are your best. is sure what. gives our throat some fish oil. now let's try to get off the.

sailors have dubbed beluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . my three want to bring us to ring. 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 bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that. 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 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 optics circle dive center of such. opening closure to beleaguer whales. the nearest settlement is the village of the buck 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 from fifty 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 called i heard about. being with this same company that organizes this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip dive with thought for got to do it moving to russia. anyway so far north pacific place to visit species for the toddler photography days and 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 new experience for me i know iowa i've been diving for the past eight nine years mostly in topical water. most things south east asia and.

mediterranean away called a cold water but. it's a warm water computer 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 turns to short intervals. well there are four this device was invented by ancient people it's a type of lever that was taken it a step further and designed an intelligent device for snow deals to lift chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does the job of fall barely man to that of the.

i starting 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 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 insolated by a small film of their own to the suit ok ok so you have to meet up first and then you have a dry suit which is all that it has seals the deal that. theory it's not supposed

to allow a person if you have an inflated post here and 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 care over your head your rope if you're ok the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor to task 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 they 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 i've taken from green hue to the water of the white sea.

just. her being here for we sure had a mortar. it was. 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. 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 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 with almost what i like about kite sledging is

that you have a choice of parachutes a three metre parachute is good for strong winds three and a six to seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half meters there case for any weather conditions or since all of them will pull you forward if you want a diversion. by much like 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. over as 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 with. the

least exposed rhea's. touch. surrounded by stupid. case paintings on display for thousands of years. eastern science beyond the taiga. on oxy. beluga trainer alexander 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 wails of plays an important role in their lives this is where they first met and then got married. let's go. to the belugas numa trio enough 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

. 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. but of course very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them and to sing in your show what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off animals ability to leap or carry balls and that. i mean i'm pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature. belugas get attached to humans very quickly if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of thinking with you when you click here

sometimes their skin ages you and i have certain experience that you thought you but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched but you afford to turn it over and offer their sides 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. many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off we protect our charges. 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 thanks. according to geological evidence the whites see appeared some twenty thousand years ago. the people who first settled in this northern land five hundred years ago close to us. fishing and hunting with their means of subsistence. many of them drowned during hurricanes and storms. locals still put up lamarck's of the most dangerous sites they serve as a warning to others. along the shore of the white sea there are villages founded hundreds of years ago by coast wallace. the oldest one is short and i read which means black river. it is 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. was asia and i've also looked at the women when fishing in the se 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 spin with their own in 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 thing why do they deserve what i've heard also because there's only so little or so of course the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment which is often. 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 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 white c. there triggered by the moon's orbit around the earth you have 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. it will take six hours to rise to this level of that with your mother but listen names that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of their will to have eyes frozen to the rock.

and by and feel to 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 diving funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision of you you'd lose 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 it so. decides the obvious part 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 eben 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 on the rocks in ice cleans the water and also gives it unique colors. divers cool. this place the ice kingdom. for us 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 and venus listens 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 to space than they do about what's under the seat of bush's vision sure but the. 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. and 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 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 who are their own nest legs out the on the females to race they baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flesh 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 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 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. their 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. and national. 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 correct i am the is the syllable in the pride and . the whales oh it's calf all 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.

a huge forehead serves as an acoustic tool thanks to that palookas have perfect echo location. in communicating with human beings they can comprehend body language and facial features. but divers of all 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. a lot of good.

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.