board squeals and cracking sounds can often be good around them. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice. the white sea is then to the top. 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. not a q. and 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 fur. before you start singing these new. water your best. is sure. was a little let's give our throats some fish oil. no bath now let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales seem canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make. it's. just my theory on how to bring us to ring was that you got. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives. blue. 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 shadings. 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. we need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affectionate i think. this dolphinarium amulets to conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible he's nice trees new. in the condo luck should behave the whites see specialists from the speeches but branch of the scenario in cooperation with the optics circle dive center of set up an open enclosure to believe the whales. the nearest

settlement is the village of mill mcu but ok still 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 divers have to attend a special high style event called i heard about. this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip. i thought got to do it moving to russia. this is

a good place to visit specie for the type of photography he does speak to people. it's a whole new 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 warm water compared to here. in order to get to the depths of the sea divers first have to break through the frozen sea. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving school. so the divers take. into. this device was invented by an ancient people it's a type of it was taken it

a step further and designed intelligent devices no deals to little 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 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 vent. tshering under 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 air into the suit ok ok so you have to leave us and then you have dry suit which is all that once it has sealed it feels that the next theory it's not supposed to allow. you have an inflated post here 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 nice and comfy and then if you're coming up on the sea you have to get ridges that 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 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 pick 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 on the who to comes of kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for this seaweed. fish move slowly through the cold war 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 to give in to take greenpeace to the water of the white sea.

just get it very. dangerous or show him or sam. hari to want to come work we only need a screen that's going to be have an. effect after that. and we're due. for quite a few people the underwater world is not the only attraction of the whites. in

smooth ice is an excellent environment for kite sledging found. only while a failed 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 good lord but almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes or a three metre parachute is good for strong waves six to seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half meters in their case for any weather conditions or all of them will kill you forward it won't give you. my. full. by much of you get

you what you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all 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 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.

one stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is miss mirage. but this beauty brings death at a speed of more than four hundred kilometers. steffensen dumb along. 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 believers knew him a tree owner would go 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. 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 thing 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 only have been predicted here people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old. palookas get 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 h's here and i have certainly experienced that but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched by to afford to turn it 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 of the 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.

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 coast to all those. 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 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. look at the women went fishing in the say 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 to the negative of the local women sit facing each other like this thing why do they deserve. 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 own was several shots out to 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 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. you know why there are daily tides in the white see 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 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 or you could 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 so. besides 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 a 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 cool because plankton lurking on the rocks in ice cleans the water and also gives it a unique color as. diverse coldest place the ice kingdom. bus pollution flies or another planet nobody can certainly. now 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 i think people know much more

about how to space than they do about what's under the sea 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 upshur 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 yellin across nova has served 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 with add their own nestlings to help the out of 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 a 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 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 seed baluga well 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 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 closure. for many it is a dream come true but nowhere else in the world can you communicate with blue whales in the 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 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 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. a little bit of good.

president obama imposed. sanctions on iran. nuclear program despite the threat to shut off a key oil supply route in the gulf. the syrian regime's crackdown on demonstrators . to rein in the by. the world rings in two thousand and twelve with. celebrations we take a look back and see a. civil war. it is good to have you with us on this the first day of two thousand and twelve here

in moscow this is with me rule received u.s. president barack obama welcoming the new year by signing into law a tough new set of sanctions for iran anyone doing business with tehran's central bank will face punishment thanks to the new measures directed at the financial sector the move comes at a time of heightened tension over iran's program and the threat of sanctions as already seen tehran threaten to block off key oil exporter in response to the situation is iran's plans to test a long range missiles during naval drills in the gulf that led to u.s. warships quickly being dispatched to. the independent lobby group the national iranian american council says a lack of diplomatic ties between the two countries is only increasing the danger of a hostile out. in the strait of hormuz for the iranian government would be the equivalent of cutting off its nose to spite its face.