the monitors are overseeing the implementation of a peace plan that president assad has agreed to. the world rings in two thousand and twelve with a bang with fireworks and celebrations all across the globe in moscow hundreds gathered on the red square to watch a larger scale extravaganza light up the city skyline. and what a display it was now here on r.t. we travel to the northwest coast of russia it's time to make friends with sea canaries and explore the wild underwater world our special report coming your way in. the white sea 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. board squeals and cracking sounds can often be hood around the mouth. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice. the white sea is the natural habitat. of. 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. 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. are your best. is sure well. let's give 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. palooka cobs are of a blue color thank when they're 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 beluga whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that. we 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 it's nice reasoning. in the come the luck 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 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 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 event called i heard about. being with this same company the organizers

this trip. and then when they said they were doing this dive with i thought for got to do it moving to russia. anyway so far north pacific place to visit fishing for the toddler photography disability doesn't 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 in ohio or i've been diving for the past eight nine years mostly in topical war. most seeing southeast asia. mediterranean away called a cold water but now. it's a warm water computor here. in order to get to the depths of the want to see winter divers first have to break through the frozen so. 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.

but. 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 bills to lift chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does the job of for girly men to that of the. i starting in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hearts with bannister's are situated near every water hole here the divers change and comfort themselves after diving. according to

international diving regulations one should be certified by the professional association of diving instructors 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 insulated by a small film of the air on to the suit ok ok so you have to meet up and then you have to go see it which is all that once it has sealed the deal they say in theory it's not supposed to allow a person if you have an inflated hose here and of those 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 a c. you have to get rid of 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 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 oath. your oath is your oath the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor to task is to learn to navigate on to the ice to exchange signals with your partner correctly and to control the equipment. cool. by styling 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 the seaweed. fish move slowly through the cold war to the sea bass are 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 to take green hue to the water of the white sea.

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from point 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 one of 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 good manners but almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of partial seizure 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 their case for any weather conditions or since all of them will kill you florida will give you pleasure.

by much be a good you book but you're 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 polarize my yacht sledge and kite in no time and make mincemeat out of me me of the study. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the with.

the wind stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is mesmerizing. but this beauty brings death at a speed of more than four hundred kilometers per. step in a long. 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. 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 below good luck. to the belugas numa 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. i

. train in 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 you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off animals ability to leap or carry balls in there to say well we've been pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as humans this is the old. lucas. gets attached to humans very quickly if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of thinking with you when you look at your

sometimes their skin ages you and i have certainly experienced that thoughts but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched out of what you're going to turn 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 tongues you could feel 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 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 thanks. 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 us. 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 wallace. the oldest one is jordan i already come 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 long the white sea coast and reached the shores of spitzbergen island even the women made the long distance see trips. look at the women went 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 you can still see women on such boats spinning at their own 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. why do they deserve. so certainly a lot of coast literally to a fishing area takes a long time and those in a moment. 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 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. there are daily tides in the whites only about what they're 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 while the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level at that with your mouth up with little 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 bank 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 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 diving is 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 create a panic so it's like a circle you just create formal panic very difficult to get out of it so. besides the obvious part of getting you back to the hold 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 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 you can fly to another planet. nobody can certainly not now ask the americans a visit to 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 and i think people know much more about how the space than they do about what's under the seat of bush's vision sure but. 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 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 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 there their own nest legs 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 a 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 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 palookas 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 because nowhere else in the world can you communicate with blue

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 answer back with their unusual speech. for that reason sailors nicknamed them sea canaries. a little bit of good.

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