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the white sea its surface remains choked with ice been nearly 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 heard and around them. this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice the white sea is the natural habitat.
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i. 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. could not take you on they are behaving strangely today. sure you why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song or it was something wrong with your firth's you wouldn't ask i did your garden before you start singing vs need. a water your best to go into is sure was more. than was a little let's give our throat some fish oil. thank you now let's try to
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get off the. sailors have dubbed baluga whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make . my three want to bring us tearing. skin color distinguishes these marine mammals from their relatives i believe good carbs are of a dark blue color. when they are one year old they turn gray like these two female whales. i later their skin acquires a milky shade. yes this is exactly how they should be
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kept by the people and 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 affection i think. this dolphinarium amulets the conditions of their natural habitat as much as possible you see it's nice reasoning. in the come the luck should behave the whites see specialists from the speeches but branch of the tryst told finance in cooperation with the optics circle dive center set up an open enclosure for baluga whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill mcu but location on the coast of the white sea. it was a stop just by local fisherman known as coast well as in the twentieth century. this place is very remote and difficult to reach only dirt roads and the cold sea
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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 their natural habitats. 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 that organizes this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip dive with blue as i thought for got to do it moving to russia. this is a good place to visit species for the type of photography do that if you just speak to people in south africa about the watch either but. it's a whole experience for me and. i've been diving for the past eight nine years mostly in topical war. most things out. mediterranean away
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called a cold water but now. it's a 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. with this device was invented by ancient people it's a type of leadership that was taken it a step further and designed an intelligent device to snow bills to live chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does the job of really man.
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i starting in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hot spots furnace tears are situated near every water hole pier the divers change and comfort themselves after diving. according to international diving regulations should be certified by the professional association of diving instructors before venturing on to the ice pick. 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 have a dry suit which is the oldest one it has feels he is using the next bus
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a theory it's not supposed to allow a person if you have an inflatable you know 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 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 for a 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 if you're ok the first dive is always made by an experienced instructor you're likely tosk is to learn to navigate on to the ice to exchange signals with your partner correctly and to
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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 columns of kelp scattered about. cold water is the best environment for the seaweed. fish move slowly through the cold war to the sea bass so used to the divers and
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often let them come up very close. the looks of menacing and then not even afraid of bright light. the thread like tentacles of the sea anemones give the seabed a fluffy comet. c.n.m. a nice feed on plankton and other old comic-con tickles the given i take greenpeace to the water of the white sea. and.
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just did it very. dangerous for sure we had a mortar. it was so cruel hari to want to come work we only need ice cream that's going to be heaven think of the aftermath. and were there any. point a few people the underwater world is not the only attraction of the white sea in smooth ice is an excellent environment for kite sledging fans. of 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 killer but almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have
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a choice of parachutes 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 there are codes for any weather conditions or all of them will pull you forward if you want to do. i. buy much of you get you would like your catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should here it is like riding a giant horse galloping at 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 they could pulverize my yacht sledge and kite in no time to make
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trainer alexander and biologist natalia are cut off from civilization. they live in the village of no monkey bugs 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 in montreal 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
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a way of relaxation. technique. was. 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. therefore a very many people come here they want to communicate with the belugas and touch them into thinking you're sure what's most important is that this is not a circus of showing off the animals ability to leap or carry balsam they to use they only have been pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see just the old.
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palookas get to type. to humans very quickly if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of thinking with you know you look at your sometimes their skin ages you and i have certainly experienced that thought you but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched by to a point to turn it over and offer their sides make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots but. we also matters there 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 and quite if. this is an offshore enclosure for 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. there they can
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resurface to brief. large patches of open water close to the village of new mcgrew never freeze over thought. 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 lamarck's 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 already which means black river. is. as first mentioned in historical scripts in fifteen
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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 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 going to me 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 and negative at the local women sit facing each other like this. or that is what i've heard also but there's only so the course of the trip to a fishing area takes
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a long time and those in a moment. in winter time far from. their own were several shots out at 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 at the amplitude of high and low tides in the wide sea is about two majors both in summer and in winter well the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level at that would you want to produce names that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of the building of ice frozen to the rock.
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in 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 these 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 and create a panic so it's like a circle you just create normal 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
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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 cold because plankton lurking on the rocks in ice cleans the water and also gives it unique colors. divers call this place the ice kingdom. last until you can fly to another planet. nobody can certainly not now see the
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americans a visit at 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 the space than they do about what's under the sea the 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 biological research station belonging to moscow state university. only a handful of staff stays at the station in winter young students from moscow state universities biological faculty often pairing their theses presentations. biologist yellin across nova her search of the station for twenty five years she
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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 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 their own nest legs help the ana females to race baby birds and sometimes several get together to form a kind of kindergarten where they grow their flash things together with me if they find a safe place with enough food for their ducklings grazing them together is a convenient thing to do. 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. and then either is ox under coat is the best biological
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heat insulator it doesn't let the 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 palookas to save energy. very easy movements never exhibit aggression. after a brief course of ice diving almost all the divers go swimming with belugas in an
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open closure but. 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 national. our task is to provide a good dive so that the whale school so we in the deep waters for a while can communicate with people and then come back to the surface said we treat them to fish if they fulfill the toss correctly the is the syllable in the pride and. the whales i was 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.
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the huge forehead serves as an acoustic tool thanks to that palookas have perfect echo location. in communicating with human beings they can comprehend body language and facial features. but divers always trump feeling that the whales understand them perfectly and even on so back with their unusual speech. for that reason sailors nicknamed them sea canaries. oh.
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