typically they hide under the ice. the white sea is then not the top. fall 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. and i think you know they're behaving strangely today. sure why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving a song or something wrong with your first. before you start singing these new. water your best. is sure. let's give our

throat some fish oil. bath now let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales sea canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make. it's. just my theory i wanted to bring us to ring was that your. 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 grey like these two female whales. later best. in a quiet as

a milky shadings. stall 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 the. loop will need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affection i don't want my teeth to the nerium emulates to conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible is this nice reason you're. in the condo luck should day of the white see specialists from the petersburg branch of the. incorporation with the optics circle dive center of set up an open enclosure to baluga whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill mill good 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 and the cold sea found that. such things do not pull the divers visitors flock to from different countries only 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 divers have to attend a special high style been called 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 type of photography definity does you speak to people in south africa but the watch either i don't know where it is of all it's a. experience for me and. i've been diving for the past eight nine years mostly in

topical war. southeast asia. mediterranean away called cold water but now. it's a warm water compared to here. in order to get to the depths of the sea winter divers first have 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. 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 chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does the job of.

i starting in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hot spot furnace is a situated near every water hole near 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 small films on to the suit ok so you have to. geneva and then you have priced it which is holding it has seals if

you take a bath in theory it's not supposed to allow. you have an inflamed. 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 nice and comfy and then if you're coming up on the sea you have to get rich is that they 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 take their over your head you're ok you're ok 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. 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 water to. the sea bass so 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 to give in to take greenpeace to the water of the white sea.

just get it her danger or show him or tab. through ari do you want to come work we only need some ice cream that's going to be have an effect after 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 fountains. only camilla failed 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 lord 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 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 all of them will kill you forward if you want you to. buy much you would like to catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should 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 well they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time to make mincemeat out of me but yesterday. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the wind.

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role in their lives this is where they first met and then got married. let's go. to the belugas numa a trio now were brought 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 singing you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off animals ability to leap or carry balls and they don't meet them prey they fear people simply communicate with a living creature as rooms this is the old. palookas gets attached to humans very quickly. if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of the youth of that year sometimes their skin ages you and i have certainly experienced that but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched by two or three go turn over and

offer their sides will make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots. we also masters 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 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. 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 five 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 well it's. 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 in the third row in a particular way saddle as men usually sit with their backs facing forward as a negative at the local women sit facing each other like this thing why do that is . also so silly so. the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment. in winter time far from cho not rich or old was several shots out of sea belonging to divers. they were located in front of the rocky shore of bio filter bank. two white seas under the influence of the tide 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. as they do you know why there are daily tides in the whites only what they're triggered by the moon's orbit around the. temple chewed 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 wrong crowd. and by fields of 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 i think funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision and you use the ability to to think quick quick increases your breathing and this and create 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 thought 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 zone of the 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 it's 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 world. there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world today one of the most remote ones is in the candle auction 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 pattering their theses presentations. biologist yelling across nova has served to 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 that their own nestlings piano females to race their baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flat 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. 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 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 beluga whales in the natural habitat. 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 am the is the syllable in the pride and. the whales oh 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. a 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 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 little bit of good.

russia has already marked the arrival of the new year nine times thanks to its nine time zones while the west of europe finally welcomed in two thousand and twelve just two hours ago. people in brazil are wishing each other happy new year popping fireworks in toasting champagne as you can see. the fireworks from rio de janeiro in brazil happening right now a spectacular event as people from all over the world. bringing in the new year looking forward to an amazing twelve. broadcasting live from our studios in. sean thomas wish you a happy and prosperous year ahead from the heart of the russian capital where the

party is still believe it or not in full swing and while brazil now has fireworks soaring across its city skies over half the world has already rung in two thousand and twelve. finally marked the arrival of two thousand and twelve just two hours ago while celebrations in russia have been in full swing all night long as the new year began its march across the country's vast territory australia japan that the two koreas china and other countries lit up with fireworks and celebrations. nine hours ago they were ringing in the new year in thailand and vietnam with. india falling just a bit later the next country to pick up the baton of the new twenty twelve the u.s. with huge festivities to be held across the east coast first while it's a night for celebration look back on what has been a turbulent year.