they hide under the ice. the white sea is then somehow topped. off 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 they are behaving strangely today. show you why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song or something wrong with your frodo did you gargle before you start singing business. of water your best. is sure. let's give our throat some fish oil. 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 on how to bring us to ring was that your. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. who 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. enough. yes should store 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 think. the nerium emulates to conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible is the snakes reason. in the come the luck should day of the whites see specialists from the petersburg branch of the tryst. in cooperation with the optics circle dive center set up an open enclosure to baluga whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill no 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 in the cold sea found that. such things do not pull the divers visitors from 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 times as have to attend a special ice time and cool head about. 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 specie for the top of photography definitely does speak to people in south africa but the watch either i don't know where it is of all it's a whole experience for me you know i your i have been diving for a. last eight nine years most seen topic

a war. in southeast asia. mediterranean away called 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 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. was. this device was invented by ancient people it's a type of leadership that 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 a job of really man.

i starting in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hot spots bonuses are situated near every water hole here 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 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 front of the suit ok so you have to meet up and then you have. all the. it has seals if you connect the dots

a theory it's not supposed to allow you to if 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 the lesson comfy and then if you're coming up a see you have to get ridges 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 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. 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 then all to even afraid of broad 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.

just get it very. sure had a more tab. through ari do you want to come where. we only need 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 founds. 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. parachute good but almost what i like

a bug tied sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes or a three metre parachutist good for strong winds and a six to seven metre power should it 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 of your good you would like your catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should hear 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 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. well. science technology innovation all the is developments around russia we've got the future covered.

white stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is mesmerized. by this beauty brings death at a speed of more than four hundred kilometers per. step down of a launch. 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. to the believer's 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 if we're very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them to thinning you're sure what's

most important is that this is not a circus showing off animals ability to leap or carry balsam they to me have been pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old. belugas get attached to humans very quickly. if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of the youth cliff yes 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 are 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 tellings. 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 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. local 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 coastal is. 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 see troops. 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 going with their own

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 that is. also because there's only so. the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and the load 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. you know why there are daily tides in the white say 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 building of ice frozen to the rock. in bio filter bank a 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 these funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 with add their own nestlings piano females to race they baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow they flash 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 are dogs 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. their 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 closure. for many it is a dream come true because nowhere else in the world can you communicate with beluga whales in their natural habitat. 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 correctly the is the syllable in the pride and. the whales although it's careful 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. 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 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.

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today's top story sound of the week fresh clashes flare up in syria with dozens are reported killed despite the arab league observers mission there while he is korea's rebels are taking their revolution to present us as door steps. from. president obama slaps new sanctions on iran over its atomic ambitions as tehran threatens to close off a key oil supply route in the persian gulf. and the world welcomes twenty twelve for the final word celebrations and tell the holiday sweets the globe with north america being the latest to greet the new year.

it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.r. marina joshie welcome to the program. violence in syria continues unabated despite the arab league observers mission that started this week security forces have reportedly opened fire on thousands of protesters with monitors giving conflicting accounts of government snipers involved activists claim dozens were killed in recent clashes flashpoint cities all of which are also being visited by the monitors the u.n. says more than five thousand people have died in the ten month long unrest with damascus blaming armed gangs for the violence james corbet editor of an independent news website based in japan dowd's if the observer mission would bring any plausible results. the final report will be a pretty much preordained conclusion that there will be findings that the assad government is not doing enough to to listen to the concerns of its citizens but personally i'm not sure what is more ridiculous about this story be the idea that the the autocratic focus of the arab league states.