this is how so-called canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice. the white sea is then the time. i. become 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. show you why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song it was something wrong with your photos you wouldn't ask i didn't gargle before you start singing feast me. the water your best. is sure was more.

than was a mortal let's give our throat some fish oil. now let's try to get off the. sailors have dubbed palooka whales canaries because of the peculiar sounds they make. my three want to bring is tiring. 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. 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 bloke a whale is not a stupid fish as many believe that. you 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 scenario in cooperation with the optics circle dive center of set up an open enclosure for beluga whales. the nearest settlement is the village of mill mcu but 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 good roads in the cold sea found that. such things do not pull the doctor's visit just try 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 high style event called i heard about. this same company. this trip. and then when they said they were doing this trip. i thought for got to do it would be to russia. this is a good place to visit species for the type of photography do good if you just speak to people in south africa about the watch either way. it's

a whole experience for me and. i've been diving for the past eight nine years most serene topical water. mostly in southeast asia. mediterranean away called a cold water but now. it's a warm water compared to here. in order to get to the depths of the want to see winter divers first have to break through the frozen sea. the thickness of ice is about forty to fifty centimeters in the diving school. which is hard work so the divers take a short intervals. was the word this device was invented by an ancient people it's a type of leadership that was taken it a step further and designed intelligent devices snowmobiles to lift chunks of ice nothing of the kind anywhere else in the world this original structure does

a job of really man. i styling in the white sea is a serious challenge in winter the water is bitterly cold. several hotspots bannister's 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 under 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 air into the suit ok ok so you have to meet up first and then you have a dry suit which is all that it has feels to you feels at the neck in theory it's not supposed to allow a person if you have an inflatable you know post here and a bit of self 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 close you have to get rid of that they ventured out through here. action is needed before diving under the ice. it takes time to put on a dry suit as well as making thirty 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 their over your head your rope if you're ok the first dive

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 this 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. they look so 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 old comic particles the given to take greenpeace to the water of the white sea.

fifth. her danger for 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 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

under the ice with scuba gear now he prefers to ride over the top with a special sledge and a parachute good interest but almost what i like about kite sledging is that you have a choice of parachutes a three metre parachute is good for strong winds up three to six to seven metre parachute is the right size for milder winds this one is nine and a half meters there counts for any weather conditions course all of them will kill you florida you won't get you pleasure. ok i am. i am. by much you would like you catching the wind is what i enjoy most of all i should hear 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 do it or they could power as 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 i. speak your language. programs and acumen trees in arabic.

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up. up to. the end. of. the war. 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 whales have played 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 i alexandra natalia became a 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. 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 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 there to meet them pretty clear people simply communicate with a living creature as you will see this through old. blue. gets attached to humans very quickly if they communicate with them for a long time they learn the habits. of them come with you when you click here sometimes their skin h's you and i have certain experience that you thought you but they have no hands to scratch the spot so they like being scratched but you'll

forget turn it over and offer their sides make a point of scratching and stroking all the if she spots but. we also matters there are stout bodies. they open their mouths but we don't allow everybody to touch their nice looking tongues you. many people don't do it gently enough so we put them off we protect our charges for you if. this is an offshore enclosure for belugas even a natural environment in wintertime these palooka whales 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. never freeze over thank you. 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. 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 founded hundreds of years ago by coast welders. the oldest one is short an outcome which means black river. which 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. the coast to alice sailed north long the white sea coast and reached the

shores of spitzbergen island even the women made the long distance sea trips. was asia and i've also looked at the women went fishing in the se 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 going with their own in a particular way saddle oarsmen usually sit with their backs facing forward and they're going to the local women sit facing each other like this everything why do they desert of the floor and also there's certainly a lot so the course of course the trip to a fishing area takes a long time and the luggage is off. in winter time far from cho not rich there are always several shots out of sea. belonging to divers. they were located in front of the rocky shores of bio filter bank. the white seas

under the influence of the time 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 white sea. 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 meters both in summer and in winter well the ice i'm standing on will take six hours to rise to this level it's within months it would listenings that six hours later anyone standing here will have no problem stepping out of the building of ice frozen to the rock. 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

diver 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 diving is funny the moment something goes wrong you have what they called narrowing of vision and you use the ability to to think awkward increases your breathing and this and create a panic so it's like a circle you just create more and more panic very difficult to get out of it so i. decides 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 rare. if. near the rocks piles of ice formed. ice piles up of the white sea coast due to the eben flood. huge chunks of ice

create corridors and labyrinths stretching over many meters. this is the underwater world of 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 called his place the ice kingdom. bus so you can fly to another planet nobody can certainly not now see the americans a visit to the moon and probes of landed on mars and venus let's listen 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 outer space than they do about what's under the sea of bush's vision sure but the. there are hundreds of maritime biological research stations in the world today one of the most remote ones is in the come to lapse of. an old wind powered generator is the symbol of the bottle tickle research station belonging to moscow state university. and only a handful of staff stays at the station in winter young students from moscow state universities biological faculty after pairing their theses presentations. biologist yellin across nova has surged to 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 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 out of females to race day 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 the convenience thing to do with. the water in the white sea remains cold even in summer time but the our 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 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 turn. 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 and in no plane closure. 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 so that the whale school so we were 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 toss correctly am the is the syllable in the pride and . the whales oh its 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 has perfect echo location. in communicating with human beings

they can comprehend body language and facial features. but divers always 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. going to.

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