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stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter about what your mobile device says you can watch r.t. anytime anywhere at. 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 water can be seen through holes in the ice. board squeals and cracking sounds can often be heard around them. this is how so-called canaries of the
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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 why did you feel like giving a song or something wrong with your throat. gargle before you start singing. a water your best.
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throat some fish oil. now let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of their peculiar sounds they make. my three want to bring us to ring. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives i believe good carbs are of a dark blue color. when they're one year old they turn gray like these two female whales. i later their skin acquires
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a milky shade. you know yes this is exactly how they should be kept but i woke up people in society should know that the bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe the. need to tell him that these intelligent creatures are worthy of perspex a sniff not affectionate i think. this dolphinarium emulates the conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible he's nice reasoning. in the come the luck should behave the whites see specialists from the petersburg branch of the scenario in cooperation with the optics circle dive center set up an open enclosure to believe the whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill mcu but located on the coast of the white sea.
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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 around they dream of getting a close look appealing to whales and swimming with them in their natural habitats. before they're allowed to do so even experienced divers have to attend a special event cool head about. being with this same company as this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip. i thought got to do it to russia. this is a good place to visit specie for the type of photography do that if you just speak to people in south africa but the watch either i don't know where it is at all it's
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a whole new experience for me and. i've been diving for the past eight nine years most train topic a war. in southeast asia. mediterranean away called a cold water but now. it's the warm water computor here. in order to get to the depths of the sea winter divers first have to break through the frozen so. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving school so. it is hard work so the divers take the short intervals. was the word this device was invented by ancient people it's a type of leader that was taken it a step further and designed intelligent device for snow deals to lift chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this is
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a regional structure does the job of really man. i styling in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hotspur furnaces are situated near every water hole pier 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 under the ice because divers must be wearing dry suits to make sure they don't freeze in the water the user is insolated by a small film of air into the suit ok ok so you have to meet up first and then you
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have priced it which is all that it has feels he is feels at the neck so in theory it's not supposed to allow any if you have an inflatable you know post here and 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 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 ferret checks 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 care over your head you're ok if you're ok the first dive
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is always made by an experienced instructor like 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.
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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 i take green here to the water of the white sea.
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just. her being here for sure we had a mortar. it was through ari do you want to come where. we only need ice cream that's going to be have a. little bit after that. thing where you. go. 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 going to fail often visits this remote place in the past he would only dive
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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 parachutes three metre parachute is good for strong winds up three and a six to seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half meters there case for any weather conditions or since all of them will pull you forward if you want to do push. by much you look like you're catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should share it is like riding a giant horse galloping up breakneck speed i am carried away by
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a feeling of exhilaration you know because i am fully aware of the infinite power of nature's forces. they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time to make mincemeat out of me started. the weather on the white sea often changes abruptly but after a long struggle a leg is finally able to catch the with. her . led mission and free accreditation free comes for charges free. range month free. free. time free
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palooka trainer alexander and biologist natalia are cut off from civilization. they live in the village of no 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 go. to the belugas numa tree owner would go to the white sea dolphinarium when they were about one year old i alexandra natalia became their foster parents
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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. think. i. 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. but of course very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them and to sing in your show what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off the animals ability to leap or carry balsam betty if they
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only have been pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old. palookas. gets attached to humans very quickly and if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of the end of which you know you look like you're sometimes their skin ages you and i have certain experience that you thought you 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. 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 while. this is an offshore
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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. there they can resurface to brief. large patches of open water close to the village of new never freeze over thanks. 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. 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
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founded hundreds of years ago by coast welders. the oldest one is jordan i already 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 flung the white sea coast and reached the shores of spitzbergen island even the women made the longest sea trips. 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 saddles men usually sit with their backs facing forward to the
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negative of the local women stood facing each other like this. why do they do this . for girls are so silly so the course of the trip to a fishing area takes a long time at the 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 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. there are daily tides in the whites. there triggered by the moon's orbit around the earth of the amplitude of high and low tides in the wide sea is about two majors both in summer and in winter all of
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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 into the belt of ice frozen to the rock or. and bio filter back 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 are they funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision and you use the ability to to think like which increases your breathing and this
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and creates 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 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 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 and . this is the underwater world bio filter bank. it is so cold because plankton lurking on the rocks in ice cleans the water and also gives it unique colors.
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divers call this place the ice kingdom. last you can fly to another planet. nobody can certainly not now see the americans a visitor 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 this place 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 come to luxor 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
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university's biological faculty after pairing their theses presentations. biologist yelena cross nova search of the station for twenty five years she often comes here with family in winter. she studies c i did ducks and sure and i stay here. i just spend nearly all of their 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 their own nestlings help the on the females to race baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flesh things together share with me if they find a safe place with enough food for they ducklings raising them together is
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a convenient thing to do. on. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the idea ducks are never affected by the cold water they bob in the waves the whole day. under code 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. 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 polluters to save energy. very easy movements never exhibit aggression.
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after a brief course of ice diving almost all the divers go swimming with belugas and in no plane closure the company for many it is a dream come true because nowhere else in the world can you communicate with beluga whales in their natural habitat. and. our task is to provide a good dive that's so that the whale school so we know that deep waters for a while 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 that. the whales are also as careful divers cannot move as fast and graciously as they can so they adjust themselves to the divers movements.
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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 all 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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