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. and i think you know 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 first. before you start singing this new. water your best. is sure. gives 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. us. want to bring us to ring was that you got. 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 grey like these two female whales. later their skin acquires a milky shade. yes this is exactly how they should be kept but the people answer. sadie should know that the bloke a whale is not

a stupid fish as many believe the. global we need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affectionate i think to this dolphin nerium emulates to conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible he knows reason. in the condom luck should behave the whites see specialists from the speeches but branch of the tryst tolson area in cooperation with the optic circle dive center of set up an open enclosure to beleaguer whales. the nearest settlement is the village of milne a good book 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 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 times as have to attend a special ice time and cool i heard about. 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 fishing for the top of photography definitely 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 seem topical war. most saying se. a little bit 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 sea. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving spot. it is hard work so the divers take the short intervals. but. this device was invented by an ancient people it's a type of leader 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 full girlyman.

i styling in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hotspots 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 on to the ice. divers must be wearing dry suits to make sure they don't freeze in the water the user is insolated by a small film and into the suit ok ok so you have to meet up and then you have priced it which is holding it has sealed the deal. in theory it's not supposed to.

you have an inflation. and it up though he it say to keep it comfortable and you don't get squashed in the water with the pressure you put air into the suit keep the lesson comfy and then if you're coming up a see you have to get rid of that faith 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 there 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. the seabed. so used to the divers and

often let them come up very close. they look so menacing and then on to 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 particles the given to take greenpeace to the water of the white sea.

her here we sure had a mortar. it was true ari didn't 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 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 you know it but almost what i like a book kite sledging is that you haven't. choice of power shifts the three metre

parachute is good for strong winds the sixty 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 you won't need to. buy much of you get you would like you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i sure 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 do it well they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time and 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.

stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is missed much. of this beauty brings death at a speed of more than four hundred kilometers from. stepping 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 below go. to the belugas knew him a tree owner would go to the white sea told finale him when they were about one

year old. alexandra natalia became the 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 to thingy ashore what's most

important is that this is not a circus of showing off animals ability to leap or carry balls and they to use and we have been predicting here people simply communicate with a living creature. 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 by what you're going to turn over and offer their sights to make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots. we also massage 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 winter time 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 michael 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 coastal is. the oldest one is jordan i read which means black river. it is first mentioned in historical school. 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. look at the women when fishing in the sea on rowing boats they caught fish many kilometers away from their homes and they went by these robots not by ships going to me you can

still see women on such boats you know if they're oh in a particular way saddles men usually sit with their backs facing forward as a negative but local women sit facing each other like this thing why do they deserve what i've heard also but there's certainly a lot of colas and the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment. 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 shores of bio filter back. to white seas under the influence of the tide it's was the 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. amplitude of

high and low tides in the wide sea is about two mazes both in summer ending 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 their will to have eyes frozen to the wrong crowd. 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 they

funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision you'd 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 formal panic very difficult to get out of that side. decides 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 formed. ice piles up of the white sea coast due to the ebb and flow. 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 to another planet nobody can certainly. now 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 to space than they do about what's under the sea which is 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 county 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 see ida ducks ensuring 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 to help the ana females to race they baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flash things together with him to 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 odds of dogs are never affected by the cold water they bowled 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 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. and. our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we are in the deep waters for a while communicate with people and then come back to the surface we treat them to fish if they feel the toss correct them yes this elephant in the pride and.

the whales also is 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.

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a very warm welcome to you on this the first day of two thousand and twelve. you're watching live from moscow. syria continues unabated despite the arab league observers mission this week security forces. opened fire on the thousands of protesters but the. government snipers. claim dozens were killed in recent clashes points. 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 gangs for the violence james corbet editor of an independent news website based in japan the balance if the observer mission will 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.