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The continent of Antarctica
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is unbelievably vast and inhospitable.
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It's the coldest place on Earth.
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But each spring,
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the warming sun draws lifefrom the southern ocean
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onto the edges of the continent,
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and it becomes home to oneof the toughest birds on the planet,
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the Adelie penguin.
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To chronicle the amazing storyof these polar pioneers,
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Disneynature mounted one of the biggestfilming operations
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Antarctica has ever seen,
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assembling a unique team of filmmakers,
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including some of the bestcinematographers in the world.
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They'll face the worstthat Mother Nature can throw at them,
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and still come back for more.
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Whoo!
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The penguinsare on a mission of their own.
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Ah, these penguins.
Would you stand in the frame? They just...
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Oh...
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I can't believe this.
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They can be wary of strangers.
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I'm gonna be hiding
in their colony like this.
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And finding them isn't easy.
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Which way
was the penguin colony again?
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But these filmmakers knowwhat it takes to capture every moment
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of this magical story.
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Oh, that was a penguin.
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Aye.
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That could have been
the Oscar-winning shot.
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Just missed it.
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The Adelies have spentthe winter out at sea.
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Now they're heading back to land to breed.
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It's the green light the Disneynature teamhas been waiting for.
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More than 20 cinematographerswill attempt to film the penguins' lives
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in unparalleled detail.
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They'll travel vast distancesto find those subjects,
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carrying with themover ten tons of filming equipment.
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They will spend monthsin some of the coldest
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and most isolated places on the planet.
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And they'll depend on hundredsof support staff
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from eight different nations
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to get them there and keep them alive.
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The first camera teamleft England a week ago,
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heading for a staging post in New Zealand.
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They then flew to Ross Island
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and the US Antarctic Research Baseat McMurdo.
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Now the final legof their grueling journey
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is taking them across the islandto the remote Cape Crozier.
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Each year, Crozier becomes home
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to the largest Adelie penguin colonyon the planet.
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The crew is racing to get therebefore the penguins do.
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Mark Smith is a cinematographerwho has filmed here before,
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as has Jeff Wilson,
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the team's leaderand one of the film's directors.
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So, two years of planning has gone
into this moment right now,
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trying to get all the logistics,all the people,
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all the equipment, and the weather correct
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in order to drop us into this base
that we're going,
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has been an enormous effort.
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This barren mountainwill be the main filming location
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for the next few months.
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Both Mark and Jeffknow the harsh conditions that lie ahead.
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It's like a midsummer's day down here,
it's about minus 18.
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Nice and warm.
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For Antarctica,it's actually unseasonably calm and sunny.
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Man, I can't believe the weather.I've never seen it like this here, ever.
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Yeah, this is beautiful.
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- Okay, good to go.
- Are you good?
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- Have fun, guys.
- Thank you very much, mate.
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You're welcome. See you soon.
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- Whoo!
- Whoo!
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Yeah.
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Awesome.
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How about that?
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We made it.
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That is the best feeling ever.
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Landing here is pretty amazing.
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This is our home.
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It's been eight monthssince this base was operational,
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so the crew's first priorityis to rebuild the camp.
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- Jeff.
- They also have to carry
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the film kit, piece by piece,to the penguin colony.
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It's about a mile walk down to the colony
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and we're just taking some of our gear,some of the 5,000 pounds
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of gear that we brought in with us.
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The camera, tripod, and what have you,
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we're gonna stash that down at the colony
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so we don't have to bring it back
and forth each day.
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Jeff, why aren't you carrying
as much as the rest of us?
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Mark and Jeff hope to capturethe beginning of the Adelies' story:
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the return of males across the sea ice,on their way to their nesting grounds.
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But have they made it aheadof the penguins?
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What do you think, Mark?
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It's pretty amazing. It's incredible.
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There's a few hundred penguinsof quarter of a million penguins here.
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Most of them are still out in the sea
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and coming back here in the next few days.
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And the penguins have to pass through here
to get to the colony,
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and hopefully, they'll come back
through all this amazing ice.
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Each year,the sea around Antarctica freezes.
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By midwinter, it more than doublesthe size of the continent,
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and then melts away again each summer.
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This year, that melt is slower than usual.
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The ice is about six kilometers out there,
so most normal years,
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it's about half that, more or less.
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It's a long way for the Adelies to walk.
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There's a lot of Adeliesgoing through that ice there.
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Very beautiful. Blue ice,
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black and white Adelies, looks amazing.
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With hundreds of males arriving
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and the good weather holding,it's the perfect start.
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But Mark and Jeff had been heremany times
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and know that conditions can changein a matter of minutes.
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So the Adelies are finally coming down
in huge numbers,
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which is exactly what we came here for,
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and then Mark is trying to film them.
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But here's the dilemma.
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Up on the top of the hill up there,
it's starting to blow an enormous gale.
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And the winds here can get pretty strong.
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So whilst we've got all this action,
we're, um, on a bit of a line
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as to whether to head for home
or stay and get some good stuff.
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It quickly becomes clearthat staying is not an option.
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That's, uh... blowing snow,
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which...
which puts the fear of God into me.
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And that means that this
is, uh, some strong winds.
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You never quite know how strong they are.
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We're going to leave.
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We're not gonna hang around to find out.
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Pretty strong, eh?
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Before they know it,
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the crew are battlinghurricane-force winds
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and temperatures dropping belowminus 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Caught out in the open,these are potentially lethal conditions.
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At last, they reachedthe safety of their camp,
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but it was a narrow escape.
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Whew!
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Quite punchy.
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Just a bit of breeze, isn't it?
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The storm vanishesas quickly as it arrives.
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The next morning,it's as if it never happened.
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It seems all kind of very benign
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now that we're sitting back in the colony
the next morning, but...
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it came pretty close
to being serious last night.
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And I don't think we wanna try
and test that wind again.
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And there were times where I was thinking,
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"I'm not sure I can take this anymore."
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I was that tired.
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I don't think I've ever been
that physically tired
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when we got back to the hut.
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And you know what?
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If it had been any colder,we would have been in real, real trouble.
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The most amazing thing about a stormis the penguins didn't mind at all.
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The colony seems to be abouttwice as full,
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so more penguins came inthrough those winds,
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which must have toppeda hundred miles an hour at least.
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They were still going
about their business,
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which is unbelievable, really.
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Credit to this tiny little animal.
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Cape Crozier is the mainlocation for the penguins' story,
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and will be filmed throughout the seasonby three different camera crews.
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But it's not the only colonythe Disneynature team will film.
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Another film crew is sailing southfrom Australia
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on an ice-breaking resupply ship.
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They're heading for the sea ice barrier
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and the French research baseof Dumont d'Urville, or DDU.
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Their three tons of cameraand diving equipment has to travel by sea.
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But two of the crew are able to fly inahead of the others by small plane.
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Their weight restriction only allowsfor some clothes
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and a single small camera.
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It's their first time in Antarctica.
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What do you reckon, Rolf?
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Look at that. I mean...
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There are icebergs frozen in the sea,
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I mean, wow.
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I'm a little bit speechless,
I have to admit.
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Can't see any penguins yet.
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But that's not such a bad thing,
because at the moment all our camera kit
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is stuck out about 200 kilometers
that way,
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on the boat with the rest of the team.
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Fingers crossed they get here soon,
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because without cameras,
we can't do anything.
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The boat they're waiting for,the Astrolabe,
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hits early spring icefar sooner than expected.
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In addition to the equipment,
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it's also carrying much-needed suppliesfor all those living at DDU.
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On board is underwater filming legendDidier Noirot,
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who has dived in Antarcticamany times before.
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Normally, crossing from Australiatakes ten days,
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but this season, the ship is strugglingagainst the unusually thick sea ice.
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The closer they get,and the further south they go,
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the thicker the ice becomes.
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Their progress grows slower day by day...
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until finally, they can go no further.
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They're stuck
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and the mission hangs in the balance.
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The research baseis still several days away.
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They have no choice but to waituntil the weather improves.
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While Rolf and Max must waitfor their cameras,
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they are no longer waiting on the Adelies.
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The main base is up here.
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It's amazing,
it's one of the only bases down here
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that's actually surrounded
by a penguin colony,
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so it's ideal for us.
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This is luxury,
because we only have a short stroll
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and we're right in the colony itself,
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and they've got Emperor penguins
just over this direction,
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but we're completely surrounded
by Adelies.
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They still have no ideawhen they'll be able to start filming.
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I mean, it's a little bit of a disaster
that we can't get our cameras,
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because they are out there on the boat
and we can't do anything.
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So, uh, we can get really familiar
with the area,
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really familiar with the behavior,
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but in the worst case, it's...
it's over when the cameras are here.
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So, fingers crossed
that, uh, the boat will come soon.
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The Astrolabe is maroonedin a sea of ice.
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The chances of sailing to DDUare fading fast.
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But a window of fine weathergives Didier and the underwater team
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an opportunity to get ashoreby different means.
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Now the true extentof the sea ice becomes clear.
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I can hear a helicopter.
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The entire film teamwill be guests at the French base at DDU,
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which has been home to 30 scientistsand engineers all winter.
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The helicopter is bringingnot only Didier,
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but also fresh food for all,
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and long-awaited messages from home.
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This is the first mail in eight months.
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I don't know what they get,
but everybody seems to be pretty excited.
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That is heavenly.
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Following deliveryof the salad appetizer,
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the helicopter returnswith the main course
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and a surprise for Max.
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Finally, finally, we got everything.
In amongst a load of science kit.
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It's been a long wait, but...
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it's here, a camera.
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We can finally start filming.
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DDU has been chosen
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because it allows the teamto film the Adelie penguins
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on and beneath the thick sea ice.
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Okay.
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There's a big group coming there. Wow.
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Rolf is focusing on the femalesthat are now returning from sea,
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heading to the colony,and the males awaiting them.
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I often go for a process where
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I try to simply get into the mind space
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of the protagonist that I'm filming.
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In this case, it's a penguinwho has decided to breed
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in one of the most remoteand toughest places in the world, and...
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their supermarket is the sea,
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that's where they get their food,
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and the sea ice is very thick this year,
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so it's a long walk to the supermarket.
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And, uh, we go back to our base.
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As a chef, he has made the food.
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And we don't have to think about that.
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But these guys,they know they have to find the sea
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and they have to find a lot of food,otherwise, they will never survive,
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so it's serious business,
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and we try to capture that.
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So...
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I definitely have a lot of respect
for those
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tiny black-and-white miracle machines.
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The Disneynature teamhave created
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a unique, new look for the film
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that captures a penguin's-eye viewof the story.
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Max uses a special camera rig
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that's more at home in Hollywoodthan Antarctica.
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Everything here is really tough.
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I mean, we're using cameras,
we're using equipment
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that you'd normally use
on a feature film set,
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but using them here,
at the end of the world,
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is almost impossible
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because every time I stepon a piece of snow and break through,
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puts a wobble in the shot,
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the wind here is just relentless.
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We're getting 60, 70 mile-an-hour winds,
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and I think the best we've had
is a nice breezy 30 miles an hour,
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and you just can't even keep
the camera steady.
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And the whole pointof this ridiculously heavy rig is that
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I can get stable shots moving with them.
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It's quite hard to get close to them.
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Understandably, they're quite nervous.
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God knows what the penguins think I am
when I come wandering towards them,
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looking like the Terminator.
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Didier is also eager to startthe underwater filming,
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but he needs to find somewherehe can dive.
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The unusually thick spring ice meansthere's no open water for many miles.
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It is a problem for him and the penguins.
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The open sea is too far away,
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so the dive team search for holesin the ice closer to the base,
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where they hope to find some Adelies.
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The first holeis home to a Weddell seal.
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They live further souththan any other mammal
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and keep their ice holes open year round.
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The next has penguins,
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but they're Emperors, not Adelies.
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Then Didier findsa very promising-looking hole.
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All he needs is an Adelie.
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He's in luck.
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Before he dives beneath the ice,
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Didier wants shots of his stargetting into the water.
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He's a cool guy.
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As Didier sets upto film the best angle,
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our hero gets ready for his close up.
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And like a true professional,he's right on cue.
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As the little Adelie continuesto perform for the camera,
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it's clear a star is born.
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Another reasonDDU has been chosen as a filming location
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is that it's one of the few placeson the planet
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where Emperor penguins...
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...live near a colony of Adelies.
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The Emperorshave been overwintering here
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and now they're leaving.
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All the adultsare starting to go to the sea.
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We've just had one Adelie,
the first Adelie,
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wander up unannounced from the sea,
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straight through the middleof this Emperor colony.
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You could just seethese two species interact,
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and you just see the different characters.
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He's not even as bigas some of Emperor chicks,
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but he's just bargingthe full-sized adults out the way.
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Once the Adelies are in town,they seem to think they own the place.
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Their behavior is like no other penguin.
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They're almost these hyperactive,
caffeinated little...
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bundles of energy.
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I think we're gonna enjoy filmingthese guys,
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because they're... they're definitely
little characters,
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and uh... it's gonna be fun.
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Across Antarctica,
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female Adeliesare heading to their colonies,
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where the males are already busypreparing their nests.
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Their colonies are always situatedon bare rock...
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...because Adelies need to lay their eggson solid ground.
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So, all the males have come back
into the colony by now,
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and they're fervently trying to buildtheir nests,
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and they build their nestsout of these little stones.
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In fact, Adelie penguin coloniesare only found where you find these stones
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because they need themto lift their eggs off the ground
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for when the snow meltsso their eggs don't freeze.
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And all the males are going backwardsand forwards and backwards and forwards
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picking up rocks,trying to build their nests up in time,
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because they gotta do it
to impress the ladies.
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But nest buildingisn't as innocent as it seems.
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Rocks are the money,
they are the currency in these colonies.
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But some penguins, they're lazy.
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Oh, he's on the prowl,our little friend here.
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They look so innocent.
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Look.
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This guy looks beautiful, clean.
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And you would never think
that he's actually standing,
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looking, "Where can I find a rock?"
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And sometimes, they...they just stand there for ages,
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and they just observe the area,
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and observe the area.
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And that's what he's doing,
like, "Just looking around."
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And then suddenly, bam, they just...They run, they dive into the nest,
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and grab their rock and... boom.
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"Hi, baby, I'm the guy, I got the rock."
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I don't know if everyone asks
where a nice present comes from.
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Sometimes you just take the present
and... be thankful.
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The next stage of Didier's mission
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is filming penguins swimming aroundbeneath the ice.
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And he knows exactly who his star will be.
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The water is below freezing,so gearing up takes a long time.
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All right.
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Didier is late on set,and our lead actor is growing impatient.
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The little penguinis a natural performer,
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and he leads Didierinto a magical world beneath the ice.
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Down here,the ice blocks out most of the sunlight,
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preventing the algae from blooming.
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The result is crystal-clear visibility
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to distances of 800 feet.
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And then, a surprise bonus.
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The supporting cast arrives.
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That's a wrap for the day.
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Didier heads for home.
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One thousand miles awayat Cape Crozier, there's been a change.
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After two grueling months away from home,
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Jeff and Mark have handed overto a fresh new team,
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Julie and Matt.
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Julie has been to Antarctica before,but it's Matt's first time,
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and he has a lot to learnabout living with penguins.
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Look what I've been sitting in.
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Meltwater that's passed through,
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well, let's just say much guano.
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These pants
are starting to smell a little bit.
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It's gonna take a few washesto get the smell out, if I bother.
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Yeah.
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The colony is now hometo over a million breeding penguins.
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Almost all of them have paired up,mated, and laid their eggs.
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Matt and Julie's mission is to capturethe exact moment when a chick hatches.
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It's a shot that is essential to the film.
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So, Matt has been filming
for the last three days.
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It's a very, very slow process.
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And if you miss the momentthat the chick breaks the egg,
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then that's it.
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You need to... m... move on
to a different egg.
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So, Matt has to concentrate.
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He just needs that magic moment.
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I have no doubt he's gonna get it.
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But... can't really talk to him.
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He's, um...
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just really, really focused on his...on his work.
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But at exactly the wrong moment,
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an early summer storm arrives.
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So, I went to bed last night,
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and it was still beautiful outside.
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I woke up this morning
and we have more wind,
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which is pretty frustrating because
there's a lot happening in the colony.
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So this is kind of like crucial time,
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and I'm pretty keen to be working.
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So, let's hope to get
as much sleep as I can
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and wake up in the morning
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and be blue sunshine
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and ready for another day,
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because we have so much
to... to actually achieve
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in uh, such a short amount of time.
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These are katabatic winds,
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cold air from the icy interior
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that is being pulled downhillby the warmer sea.
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They can reach nearly 200 miles per hour
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and last for days.
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It's like being stuck
in a big bass drum.
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It's been like that all night.
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I don't know what to do.
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So, it's a new dayand the wind is still strong.
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I am getting a bit anxious.
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When we left the colony,
there was maybe 50 percent
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of, um... the birds with eggs,
hatching eggs.
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I imagine that figure
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is... way down,
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because penguins get onwith things regardless.
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Regardless of the weather,which is quite extraordinary, really.
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Those eggs will have been hatchingunder those crazy little birds.
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Finally, the katabatics die down.
435
00:33:55,367 --> 00:33:59,913
You know what, this is nothing really,
it's just a mild breeze.
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Yeah, we'll be filming today.
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Good.
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Having barely slept,Matt and Julie head back to the colony
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desperate to make up for lost time.
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But now, overcast skies
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and snow flurriescreate yet another obstacle.
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So, I try my best not to get
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my frustration out when I work.
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Um...
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But today...
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Christmas Eve, um...
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we decided to switch hours
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and do, like, um,
an early... an early start,
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um, because I needed some...
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some specific shots.
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But the specific shots
needs to be done in...
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bright blue sky.
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And I pretty much have the opposite.
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So, hopefully I'll be able to do
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those specific shots in the sun tomorrowon Christmas day.
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That'd be quite a nice...
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Christmas present, um,
because I'm kind of running out of time.
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That why I'm... I'm a bit upset.
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Christmas morning,and the weather is improving.
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Julie's first taskis her daily radio check.
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MacOps, this is Yankee 328 Camp Crozier
on Mount Terror.
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Do you copy?
463
00:35:40,722 --> 00:35:43,892
Yankee 328 Camp Crozier,this is MacOps, good morning.
464
00:35:45,060 --> 00:35:48,813
Morning, George.This is Julie for our daily check-in.
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There are two people and all is good.
466
00:35:54,319 --> 00:35:56,071
Good morning, Julie.Merry Christmas
467
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and I copy that you havetwo people in camp and all is good, over.
468
00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:03,828
George,Merry Christmas to you, too.
469
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:06,122
Is there any message for us?
470
00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:09,918
Uh, Julie,I do have one message for you.
471
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The message is,"Merry Christmas from Mick," over.
472
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,513
Thank you very much. Um...
473
00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:23,890
Which Mick are we talking about?
474
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Mick...Oh, you know what?
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00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:31,981
I apologize, it's for the Cape Croziercrew tonight, the Bravo 031.
476
00:36:32,148 --> 00:36:33,900
I apologize, Julie.
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00:36:34,651 --> 00:36:36,486
So, no messages for us?
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00:36:37,070 --> 00:36:38,697
No,there are no messages for you.
479
00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:41,658
Uh, sorry about that,and I have nothing further,
480
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so have a very Merry Christmasand we'll talk to you tomorrow.
481
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MacOps is clear.
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One thousand miles awayfrom the isolation of Crozier,
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the DDU team are also enduring Christmasfar from home.
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Sit on it!
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It's Christmas for me.
486
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Despite the pressing demands of filming,
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Matt and Julie take a few hours off
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and celebrate with a bottle of wine
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they've been keepingfor a special occasion.
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We have a very, very good wine
for Christmas.
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It says, "A delicious red wine,"
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a "vin rouge délicieux,"
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...on this bottle.
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And Julie's going to try some.
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- Julie.
- Yup.
496
00:37:57,358 --> 00:37:59,027
Oh. Ugh!
497
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It's really bad.
498
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In DDU, the vin rouge
really is délicieux.
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- Again?
- Yeah, sure.
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And there's no shortage of selection.
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Julie cooksa lavish meal to lift spirits.
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There we are. Thank you, Julie.
503
00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:32,018
- Gravy?
- That looks awesome. Yeah.
504
00:38:32,727 --> 00:38:34,145
And at DDU...
505
00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:02,173
Julie and Matthave left friends, family,
506
00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:04,008
and life's luxuries at home,
507
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:08,930
all to capture the special momenta chick emerges from its shell.
508
00:39:10,390 --> 00:39:14,602
Without that crucial shot,a key part of the story will be missing,
509
00:39:15,144 --> 00:39:18,523
and all their sacrificeswill have been for nothing.
510
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:23,403
So, we haven't been herefor, what, three days.
511
00:39:23,570 --> 00:39:25,280
We... we were delayed by the storm.
512
00:39:25,822 --> 00:39:28,533
A lot of change since, uh,we were last here.
513
00:39:28,908 --> 00:39:31,661
Most birds have now got chicks.
514
00:39:38,334 --> 00:39:41,170
So, there's still birds with eggsbut not... not many.
515
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:44,591
I just have to be carefulto find the right bird
516
00:39:44,757 --> 00:39:46,509
to concentrate on today.
517
00:39:49,304 --> 00:39:52,807
Okay. There's a clearly hatching egg here.
518
00:39:52,974 --> 00:39:56,144
So we've actually got a... a subject
I can line up on now.
519
00:39:59,731 --> 00:40:02,358
It's got a big open hole in the egg,
520
00:40:02,525 --> 00:40:04,694
which means it's not far offfrom hatching.
521
00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:06,487
Actually coming out.
522
00:40:25,673 --> 00:40:26,841
And that...
523
00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:29,594
is a very useful shot.
524
00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:33,222
After all they've been through,
525
00:40:33,389 --> 00:40:38,227
this one vital successmakes all their hardships worthwhile.
526
00:40:43,942 --> 00:40:47,028
Good day today. Good hatching.
527
00:40:47,862 --> 00:40:49,197
Very pleased.
528
00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:55,620
For the penguins,there's no time to rest.
529
00:40:55,912 --> 00:41:00,291
The victory for Julie and Matt is a callto action for the chick's parents.
530
00:41:01,417 --> 00:41:04,420
They now have hungry mouths to feed.
531
00:41:04,796 --> 00:41:06,589
Time to get busy.
532
00:41:08,508 --> 00:41:09,884
For the next few weeks
533
00:41:10,051 --> 00:41:12,720
the parents take turnsheading out in search of food
534
00:41:12,887 --> 00:41:14,430
for their ravenous chicks.
535
00:41:18,351 --> 00:41:23,147
The feeding relay racesoon creates a penguin super highway.
536
00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:31,072
The team want to film a penguin's-eye viewof the rush-hour journey
537
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:32,865
to and from the sea.
538
00:41:38,579 --> 00:41:42,083
It's a challenge that requiresmore than one approach.
539
00:41:46,170 --> 00:41:47,255
Plan A.
540
00:41:48,381 --> 00:41:50,591
Max does his best to try and keep up,
541
00:41:51,384 --> 00:41:54,303
but one misplaced foot and...
542
00:41:57,598 --> 00:42:00,184
Following these waddlingmiracle machines
543
00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:02,520
is a lot harder than they thought.
544
00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:09,777
Time for plan B.
545
00:42:14,407 --> 00:42:16,242
What could possibly go wrong?
546
00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:53,071
Okay.
547
00:42:53,613 --> 00:42:55,490
So, plan C.
548
00:42:57,742 --> 00:42:58,785
Good idea.
549
00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,631
It's a camera version of a zip line.
550
00:43:12,006 --> 00:43:14,050
Camera's running. Okay.
551
00:43:14,926 --> 00:43:16,344
Just one test.
552
00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:31,609
It works beautifully.
553
00:43:39,742 --> 00:43:42,161
Once they've gotall the zip line shots they need,
554
00:43:42,328 --> 00:43:44,622
it's time for a little free-styling.
555
00:43:52,255 --> 00:43:56,592
The sea ice that surrounds Antarcticais melting fast.
556
00:43:57,385 --> 00:43:58,886
Cracks are appearing.
557
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:03,683
The open water feeding groundsare getting closer.
558
00:44:09,814 --> 00:44:13,192
It's time to call inthe ice edge chopper team.
559
00:44:13,776 --> 00:44:16,863
Their mission is not just to filmthe penguins from the air,
560
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,491
they're also hereto film them swimming underwater.
561
00:44:23,119 --> 00:44:26,914
That means landing a helicopterpacked with heavy camera equipment
562
00:44:27,081 --> 00:44:30,126
on sea ice that's breaking apart.
563
00:44:31,878 --> 00:44:35,298
It's an extremely high-risk operation.
564
00:44:38,634 --> 00:44:42,555
They must be absolutely certainthe ice can take their weight.
565
00:44:43,681 --> 00:44:45,141
So, before Tom,
566
00:44:45,349 --> 00:44:48,102
the cinematographer,is allowed near the ice edge,
567
00:44:48,436 --> 00:44:50,605
the team set up safety ropes.
568
00:44:50,938 --> 00:44:53,858
There is no way that Tom could fall in.
569
00:44:54,025 --> 00:44:55,151
But just in case he does,
570
00:44:55,318 --> 00:44:57,445
we can pull on this
and yank him right out.
571
00:44:58,487 --> 00:45:00,698
Keep right. Yeah...
572
00:45:03,409 --> 00:45:05,161
As the Adelies follow the channels
573
00:45:05,328 --> 00:45:08,039
toward open ocean and their food,
574
00:45:08,206 --> 00:45:10,458
the crew get into position ahead of them.
575
00:45:14,337 --> 00:45:15,880
With the camera on a jib arm,
576
00:45:16,047 --> 00:45:19,550
Tom can film them underwaterwithout diving.
577
00:45:30,978 --> 00:45:33,731
But suddenly,the penguins halt their journey.
578
00:45:34,523 --> 00:45:36,150
Something has spooked them.
579
00:45:46,661 --> 00:45:47,662
Orca.
580
00:45:50,122 --> 00:45:51,332
Killer whales.
581
00:45:58,297 --> 00:45:59,715
Whoa.
582
00:46:00,383 --> 00:46:02,009
Oh, my goodness.
583
00:46:03,344 --> 00:46:06,264
Orca are Antarctica'sgreatest predators.
584
00:46:10,643 --> 00:46:13,354
And the ice channelsthat let the penguins out
585
00:46:14,522 --> 00:46:16,607
have let the orca in.
586
00:46:18,734 --> 00:46:19,902
Oh, yes.
587
00:46:22,154 --> 00:46:24,490
Whoa. Smell that breath.
588
00:46:24,907 --> 00:46:26,200
That was so close.
589
00:46:37,795 --> 00:46:40,965
Uh, so the camera I'm using hereis just a little underwater camera
590
00:46:41,132 --> 00:46:42,633
in a waterproof housing.
591
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,095
Uh, the point of having it on this nice
big boom is that we can just move it
592
00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:49,932
and just drift and follow the animalin-frame as it enters and leaves.
593
00:46:51,267 --> 00:46:53,811
It looks great. The colors are beautiful.
594
00:46:54,061 --> 00:46:55,896
The water clarity is amazing.
595
00:47:14,498 --> 00:47:16,375
Oh... yes.
596
00:47:18,127 --> 00:47:19,211
Yes, Mark.
597
00:47:19,545 --> 00:47:21,130
There you go. Beautiful.
598
00:47:22,965 --> 00:47:24,133
This is amazing.
599
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:32,016
Oh, mate.
600
00:47:32,933 --> 00:47:34,268
This is perfect.
601
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:36,020
He's gonna come right next to you.
602
00:47:36,187 --> 00:47:37,480
Great guy, good guy.
603
00:47:38,397 --> 00:47:41,400
Orca are hugely intelligentsocial animals.
604
00:47:46,530 --> 00:47:50,201
And the strangers on the ice edgearouse their curiosity.
605
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:53,621
Oh, my goodness.
606
00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:21,857
Wow.
607
00:48:22,024 --> 00:48:23,692
- How was that, Tom?
- That was awesome.
608
00:48:23,859 --> 00:48:24,944
That was a bit of luck.
609
00:48:25,111 --> 00:48:27,488
I'd literally just dipped it in
and then a second later...
610
00:48:28,114 --> 00:48:29,156
I wasn't recording!
611
00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:30,825
I was.
612
00:48:30,991 --> 00:48:32,993
The look on Mark's face.
613
00:48:33,953 --> 00:48:35,329
Mate, we got it.
614
00:48:35,746 --> 00:48:38,791
Whoa!
615
00:48:49,301 --> 00:48:53,264
All around Antarctica,the sea ice is breaking up.
616
00:49:00,980 --> 00:49:02,314
It's becoming much easier
617
00:49:02,481 --> 00:49:05,192
for the adult penguinsto get to their feeding grounds.
618
00:49:07,069 --> 00:49:13,075
And this constant supply of fish and krillis helping their chicks grow rapidly.
619
00:49:19,665 --> 00:49:23,294
At Cape Crozier,Matt has completed his time in the field
620
00:49:23,461 --> 00:49:27,882
and heads home to his loved onesand a well-earned shower.
621
00:49:30,050 --> 00:49:33,304
He's handed it over to Sophiefor the last leg of filming.
622
00:49:33,929 --> 00:49:37,433
She's more used to working in Africathan Antarctica.
623
00:49:39,018 --> 00:49:40,603
It's her first time.
624
00:49:41,020 --> 00:49:44,690
Nothing. Nothing can prepare you
for this landscape.
625
00:49:45,524 --> 00:49:47,985
It's exactly everything I wanted it to be.
626
00:49:48,152 --> 00:49:53,240
Just huge and dramatic and awe-inspiring
and terrifyingly beautiful.
627
00:49:54,658 --> 00:49:55,868
Together with Julie,
628
00:49:56,035 --> 00:49:59,413
she's here to filmthe final stages of the penguins' story.
629
00:50:00,414 --> 00:50:03,250
And it's love at first sight.
630
00:50:04,543 --> 00:50:07,546
They're just enchanting. They're so...
631
00:50:08,839 --> 00:50:11,258
Can't get enough of them.
We really can't. They're just heaven.
632
00:50:12,259 --> 00:50:13,844
It's a real treat to be here.
633
00:50:15,387 --> 00:50:17,223
They're relentless. They don't stop.
634
00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:18,974
I admire them for their tenacity.
635
00:50:19,141 --> 00:50:22,478
They're just up and down this hill,just motoring,
636
00:50:22,645 --> 00:50:25,231
absolutely beetling up and down that hill.
637
00:50:25,648 --> 00:50:28,526
We do it a couple of times a day
and it nearly breaks us.
638
00:50:29,818 --> 00:50:31,529
I love their curiosity. Look at this.
639
00:50:31,695 --> 00:50:33,781
They're just sitting there.They're completely cool.
640
00:50:33,948 --> 00:50:36,367
They're just happy to hang out with usand let us be here.
641
00:50:36,534 --> 00:50:40,704
Slightly bewildered. I think they think
we're very, very tall, stupid penguins.
642
00:50:42,039 --> 00:50:44,041
Definitely the best birdI have ever filmed.
643
00:50:44,208 --> 00:50:46,210
Really, really. They're just amazing.
644
00:50:50,756 --> 00:50:53,008
The chicks are now several weeks old.
645
00:50:53,175 --> 00:50:54,885
They're constantly hungry.
646
00:50:55,344 --> 00:50:58,055
So when a parent arrives backfrom a fishing trip,
647
00:50:58,222 --> 00:51:01,559
every chick in the neighborhoodtries to get in on the action.
648
00:51:20,953 --> 00:51:23,372
Go on! You can get her. Go on!
649
00:51:39,013 --> 00:51:41,390
That is the funniest thingyou can ever see.
650
00:51:48,564 --> 00:51:52,067
If you imagine a Justin Bieber fanin a gray, fluffy onesie
651
00:51:52,234 --> 00:51:54,111
chasing Justin Bieber for an autograph,
652
00:51:54,486 --> 00:51:58,157
that's the fervor with which those chickspursue their parents.
653
00:52:10,669 --> 00:52:12,463
Sophie's missionis to film the chicks
654
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:14,673
as they get ready to leave the colony.
655
00:52:15,174 --> 00:52:18,344
It won't be long nowbefore they head out to sea.
656
00:52:19,637 --> 00:52:21,639
I can't believethe couple of weeks we've been here
657
00:52:21,805 --> 00:52:22,931
the changes we've seen,
658
00:52:23,098 --> 00:52:26,226
from the winter wonderland,
which was so incredibly beautiful.
659
00:52:26,935 --> 00:52:29,396
And I don't think either of ushad the faintest idea
660
00:52:29,563 --> 00:52:30,564
it would go so quickly.
661
00:52:30,731 --> 00:52:32,149
It really took us by surprise.
662
00:52:32,775 --> 00:52:35,944
One day to have this all ice,
just everything solid,
663
00:52:36,236 --> 00:52:39,615
and the next day, a bit broken,
the next day, gone.
664
00:52:40,157 --> 00:52:41,784
Um, the change is so quick.
665
00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:45,704
The chicks are beginningto change their plumage.
666
00:52:46,372 --> 00:52:49,875
The adults are spending less and less timeup in the colony.
667
00:52:50,209 --> 00:52:51,460
The ice is all gone.
668
00:52:51,627 --> 00:52:54,213
We're down to a kind ofshingly, pebbly beach.
669
00:52:55,464 --> 00:52:56,632
And now, look.
670
00:52:56,799 --> 00:52:58,092
Open ocean.
671
00:53:00,678 --> 00:53:03,055
A few hundred milesnorth of Sophie,
672
00:53:03,222 --> 00:53:05,015
another film team has arrived.
673
00:53:05,182 --> 00:53:08,852
The open ocean and good weatherare what they've been waiting for.
674
00:53:10,020 --> 00:53:11,897
It's the aerial team.
675
00:53:13,107 --> 00:53:17,820
Until now, summer storms have made ittoo rough and windy to launch.
676
00:53:21,615 --> 00:53:23,701
Finally, after days of waiting,
677
00:53:23,867 --> 00:53:26,578
we really now, tonight,
have the perfect conditions.
678
00:53:26,745 --> 00:53:28,622
Absolutely no breeze at all.
679
00:53:28,789 --> 00:53:30,374
Amazing clear skies.
680
00:53:30,541 --> 00:53:32,167
Beautiful sunlight on the mountains.
681
00:53:32,334 --> 00:53:34,545
And we're now just gettingthe helicopter ready.
682
00:53:34,712 --> 00:53:36,422
We'll take off in about half an hour,
683
00:53:36,588 --> 00:53:38,382
and we'll spend
up to four hours in the air
684
00:53:38,549 --> 00:53:40,759
trying to capture this amazing scenery.
685
00:53:45,305 --> 00:53:46,724
- Okay, good?
- Yeah.
686
00:53:46,890 --> 00:53:48,267
- Ready to go.
- Yeah, ready.
687
00:53:48,767 --> 00:53:52,396
We got the 360and the forward cameras running.
688
00:53:53,355 --> 00:53:57,109
Their task is to filmAntarctica's majestic mountains
689
00:53:57,401 --> 00:54:00,362
and icebergs freedfrom the melting sea ice.
690
00:54:02,906 --> 00:54:06,702
It's a chance to visit placesfew have ever seen,
691
00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:08,662
let alone filmed.
692
00:54:09,621 --> 00:54:11,957
Marcelo, turn it over
to the black mountain, please.
693
00:54:12,124 --> 00:54:13,876
That will be our starting point.
694
00:54:14,042 --> 00:54:15,085
Yup.
695
00:54:24,762 --> 00:54:27,055
- Okay. Let's go this way, please.
- Uh-huh.
696
00:54:29,558 --> 00:54:31,143
Looking for
some good bergs, really.
697
00:54:31,393 --> 00:54:32,394
Yup.
698
00:54:32,561 --> 00:54:35,731
And let's head for these
uh, icebergs here in front of us.
699
00:54:36,857 --> 00:54:38,275
Yeah, this is gonna be lovely.
700
00:54:44,823 --> 00:54:46,742
That is one hell of an iceberg, there.
701
00:54:48,452 --> 00:54:50,996
Okay. Let's try going low towards
the one just here,
702
00:54:51,163 --> 00:54:52,915
the one with the... with the holes in it.
703
00:54:56,001 --> 00:54:58,504
It's very nice with the gray sky
behind this way as well.
704
00:55:00,881 --> 00:55:01,965
Yeah, that's great.
705
00:55:02,716 --> 00:55:04,927
That's really nice.That's like Stonehenge.
706
00:55:07,054 --> 00:55:08,722
Those holes are superb.
707
00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:12,351
That's beautiful.The lighting's lovely, too.
708
00:55:13,519 --> 00:55:14,770
This is great, Marcelo.
709
00:55:14,937 --> 00:55:17,189
Just keep going round like this,
this is very nice.
710
00:55:20,275 --> 00:55:22,611
That is a beautiful piece of ice.
711
00:55:26,156 --> 00:55:28,951
- Very good flying. Thank you.
- Thank you.
712
00:55:30,744 --> 00:55:34,248
Amazing sort of... where that glacier's
coming right down into the ocean there.
713
00:55:37,084 --> 00:55:38,293
Altitude is good?
714
00:55:38,627 --> 00:55:39,878
Altitude is lovely.
715
00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:41,296
Uh-huh.
716
00:55:42,381 --> 00:55:43,465
Push.
717
00:55:51,181 --> 00:55:52,975
Let's keep goingin this direction.
718
00:55:53,141 --> 00:55:54,142
Uh-huh.
719
00:56:07,906 --> 00:56:09,575
Can we try and fly quite close
720
00:56:09,741 --> 00:56:11,743
- to this ridge straight ahead of us?
- Uh-huh.
721
00:56:12,494 --> 00:56:15,247
That's got a real feelingof going forever.
722
00:56:20,752 --> 00:56:22,713
Okay, Marcelo,
can you see that ridge there?
723
00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:26,675
- Can we go over the top of it?
- Okay.
724
00:56:34,433 --> 00:56:37,185
That's a lovely shot.Very nice. Okay, keep going.
725
00:56:42,691 --> 00:56:45,277
Nice altitude. Good speed.
726
00:56:47,571 --> 00:56:50,115
And we stay on
the sunny side of the ridge.
727
00:56:53,118 --> 00:56:54,703
Yeah, this is gonna be lovely.
728
00:56:57,706 --> 00:56:58,957
Yeah, that's nice.
729
00:57:07,674 --> 00:57:10,135
Three and a half thousand miles away,
730
00:57:10,302 --> 00:57:12,346
on the other side of Antarctica,
731
00:57:12,512 --> 00:57:14,222
the last of the Disneynature teams
732
00:57:14,389 --> 00:57:18,018
is sailing from the Falkland Islandsdown the Antarctic Peninsula
733
00:57:18,185 --> 00:57:21,438
heading for the appropriately namedAvian Island.
734
00:57:24,399 --> 00:57:26,568
It's accessible only by boat,
735
00:57:26,860 --> 00:57:30,697
and only when there's open waterand the sea ice has broken up.
736
00:57:31,531 --> 00:57:35,118
On board is the largest film crewof the entire production,
737
00:57:35,285 --> 00:57:37,412
with three separate filming teams,
738
00:57:37,913 --> 00:57:42,292
all trying to get to a rarely visitedand very remote penguin colony.
739
00:57:45,253 --> 00:57:47,756
One of the most experienced is John,
740
00:57:47,923 --> 00:57:50,884
a specialist long lens cinematographer.
741
00:57:51,051 --> 00:57:52,803
I've been here a few times filming,
742
00:57:52,970 --> 00:57:55,472
but it's fresh, I think,every single time, because...
743
00:57:55,639 --> 00:57:58,100
the landscape changes,
all the ice moves around, and...
744
00:57:58,558 --> 00:58:00,477
you never get
the same weather twice either.
745
00:58:01,395 --> 00:58:03,355
Apparently this yearthere's a huge amount of ice,
746
00:58:03,605 --> 00:58:07,025
and it could well block this boatfrom being able to get to the colony
747
00:58:07,192 --> 00:58:09,277
where the Adelie penguins arethat we're trying to film.
748
00:58:09,444 --> 00:58:12,698
And if that's the case,then we may not be able to land there.
749
00:58:13,532 --> 00:58:16,660
The dive team leader, Doug,has also been here before,
750
00:58:16,827 --> 00:58:20,414
and knows a thing or twoabout these freezing waters.
751
00:58:21,623 --> 00:58:24,042
Well, I've been diving the tropics
for the last two years,
752
00:58:24,209 --> 00:58:27,129
so, um, yeah, I think it's gonna be
a bit of a shock to the system.
753
00:58:27,295 --> 00:58:29,631
From memory, you know,
the first week is the hardest,
754
00:58:29,798 --> 00:58:32,259
you know, before your body
starts to acclimatize to the cold.
755
00:58:32,426 --> 00:58:36,471
And it's not really your core, um,that's the problem.
756
00:58:36,638 --> 00:58:38,557
It's, uh, your hands stop working.
757
00:58:38,724 --> 00:58:42,978
Uh, so you simply can't control
the other buttons on a camera housing.
758
00:58:43,145 --> 00:58:46,648
So, um, yeah, but if we can get an hour
in the water after a week,
759
00:58:46,815 --> 00:58:48,233
then we're doing pretty well.
760
00:58:49,151 --> 00:58:52,195
The third Antarctic veteran is Jamie.
761
00:58:52,362 --> 00:58:55,574
His special camerauses military technology.
762
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:01,496
It's a stabilized system,so it means we can get stable images
763
00:59:01,663 --> 00:59:04,166
while we're in a boatfilming penguins in the water.
764
00:59:04,332 --> 00:59:07,002
And basically, it looks like, you know,
you get rock-steady images
765
00:59:07,294 --> 00:59:09,588
while the boat's moving around
and we're tracking with them.
766
00:59:09,921 --> 00:59:12,924
Three separate teamswith one common goal:
767
00:59:13,091 --> 00:59:17,137
to film the chicks as they enter the seafor the very first time.
768
00:59:19,681 --> 00:59:22,225
But within hours, they run into trouble.
769
00:59:22,809 --> 00:59:25,687
The change in the weathercatches them by surprise.
770
00:59:29,441 --> 00:59:30,984
What a difference a day makes.
771
00:59:31,151 --> 00:59:34,571
Yesterday, we had sunshine.
Glorious sunshine.
772
00:59:34,738 --> 00:59:38,825
And uh... and now we're stuck in the ice,
parked next to an iceberg,
773
00:59:38,992 --> 00:59:40,577
and we've got gale-force winds.
774
00:59:42,579 --> 00:59:44,998
This is not exactly
what we were expecting.
775
00:59:45,624 --> 00:59:47,250
Uh, we're in the middle of summer.
776
00:59:47,834 --> 00:59:50,128
Uh, if the ice is like thisfor us, you know,
777
00:59:50,587 --> 00:59:52,255
this is their timefor the chicks to fledge.
778
00:59:52,422 --> 00:59:53,757
What they need is open sea.
779
00:59:53,924 --> 00:59:56,927
They need somewhere for the chicksto be able to go and feed themselves,
780
00:59:57,094 --> 00:59:59,888
as well as the parents to be able
to get fish to feed the chicks.
781
01:00:00,055 --> 01:00:01,848
So as much as it's a problem for us,
782
01:00:02,015 --> 01:00:04,101
my dinner's downstairs
being cooked in the mess.
783
01:00:04,267 --> 01:00:06,061
These guys are having a much harder time.
784
01:00:11,691 --> 01:00:14,486
On the other side of Antarctica,at Cape Crozier,
785
01:00:14,653 --> 01:00:18,073
Sophie is dealing with a stormof a different kind.
786
01:00:22,077 --> 01:00:24,496
The penguin chicks are molting.
787
01:00:34,714 --> 01:00:36,800
Can I just... look.
Look at this, everywhere.
788
01:00:38,677 --> 01:00:41,680
This, there was so much of this
in the air,
789
01:00:42,097 --> 01:00:43,974
that I think that Julie and I
have inhaled
790
01:00:44,141 --> 01:00:48,520
an entire penguin chick down sleeping bag.
791
01:00:49,980 --> 01:00:51,565
Like, look, everything. It's...
792
01:00:52,190 --> 01:00:54,192
The whole air is just full of this stuff.
793
01:00:57,696 --> 01:01:01,241
The downy feathers have servedto keep them warm up until now.
794
01:01:01,658 --> 01:01:03,285
But they're not waterproof,
795
01:01:03,493 --> 01:01:06,288
so the chicks must shed thembefore they can go to sea.
796
01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:14,337
It's the penguin equivalentof those awkward teenage years.
797
01:01:21,511 --> 01:01:24,848
And it's not just downthat the chicks are leaving behind.
798
01:01:26,850 --> 01:01:29,227
I don't like the way
they poo on our camera gear,
799
01:01:29,477 --> 01:01:31,021
and the way I smell.
800
01:01:31,188 --> 01:01:33,440
I smell worse than I've ever smelled,
801
01:01:33,607 --> 01:01:39,362
because we spend all day
kneeling in down, excrement.
802
01:01:39,529 --> 01:01:40,614
It's not a nice smell.
803
01:01:40,780 --> 01:01:45,285
It really isn't. They're not gonna bemaking a perfume any time soon.
804
01:01:46,620 --> 01:01:49,456
And plus there's no shower,
so I think we smell quite high.
805
01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:51,541
But they... they think
they smell delicious.
806
01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:54,002
They... They're like,"Yeah, man, we're good."
807
01:01:54,628 --> 01:01:58,381
The chicks don't know it,but this is a risky time for them.
808
01:02:00,091 --> 01:02:01,718
If they molt too soon,
809
01:02:01,885 --> 01:02:04,596
they run the riskof being caught out by a storm.
810
01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:08,141
Molt too late,
811
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:11,645
and they won't be ableto enter the water and leave the colony
812
01:02:11,811 --> 01:02:13,313
before winter returns.
813
01:02:17,859 --> 01:02:19,527
Back on the Antarctic Peninsula,
814
01:02:19,694 --> 01:02:22,030
the boat crew have weathered their storm
815
01:02:23,323 --> 01:02:25,492
and have arrived at Avian Island.
816
01:02:25,659 --> 01:02:28,954
So our first footsteps onto Avian.
817
01:02:29,704 --> 01:02:32,207
No film crewhas ever been here before.
818
01:02:32,540 --> 01:02:34,751
They have no idea what they'll find.
819
01:02:36,044 --> 01:02:37,754
It's a really large colony,
820
01:02:37,921 --> 01:02:40,674
and we're seeing it for the first time,
so we're trying to work out
821
01:02:41,049 --> 01:02:43,677
where we can land, where the penguins
are likely to go into the sea,
822
01:02:43,843 --> 01:02:45,845
which is the most important thing
we're gonna film.
823
01:02:46,805 --> 01:02:49,766
It's just very encouraging, really,to find so many birds here.
824
01:02:53,603 --> 01:02:56,690
They soon discoverthat the penguins are not alone.
825
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:03,613
Elephant seals.
826
01:03:07,826 --> 01:03:11,705
Up to 20 feet long,and nearly 9,000 pounds,
827
01:03:11,871 --> 01:03:13,873
they're the world's largest seal.
828
01:03:14,708 --> 01:03:17,877
And they even smell even worsethan the penguins.
829
01:03:20,797 --> 01:03:22,590
Oh, the stench.
830
01:03:24,217 --> 01:03:26,678
It's like a great cloud of smellthat comes up from them.
831
01:03:26,845 --> 01:03:28,179
It's amazing.
832
01:03:29,681 --> 01:03:31,182
Not good neighbors.
833
01:03:31,850 --> 01:03:33,518
But I don't want to get any closer.
834
01:03:33,893 --> 01:03:35,395
They're so big.
835
01:03:42,068 --> 01:03:45,238
It does sound pretty bad,doesn't it? Terrible guts.
836
01:03:55,582 --> 01:03:58,960
Soon, John is forced to retreatfrom his filming position.
837
01:04:00,879 --> 01:04:02,297
Yes, yes, okay.
838
01:04:03,089 --> 01:04:04,799
We won't give you any trouble.
839
01:04:06,384 --> 01:04:08,428
My tripod and camerawere right in the way,
840
01:04:08,887 --> 01:04:13,058
so, um, we had to negotiate
who went where, and I lost.
841
01:04:30,033 --> 01:04:31,701
All across Antarctica,
842
01:04:31,868 --> 01:04:33,995
the adult Adeliesare leaving their colonies,
843
01:04:34,162 --> 01:04:36,956
heading back to seafor the last time this season.
844
01:04:39,918 --> 01:04:41,169
For the chicks,
845
01:04:41,336 --> 01:04:45,173
it's time to take their final steptoward independence.
846
01:04:45,507 --> 01:04:47,467
Unlike other birdswhich have to learn to fly,
847
01:04:47,634 --> 01:04:49,260
penguins have to learn to swim.
848
01:04:49,427 --> 01:04:52,639
It's a rite of passage for penguinsthat they have to take.
849
01:04:54,974 --> 01:04:58,269
There are lots of chicks going just now.
They're coming down from the colony,
850
01:04:58,436 --> 01:05:00,939
and coming down to the shore
and trying to swim offshore,
851
01:05:01,106 --> 01:05:02,816
but they've never done it before, so...
852
01:05:02,982 --> 01:05:05,360
they're making a bit of a mess of it,some of them.
853
01:05:05,860 --> 01:05:08,488
Some just go in quite confidently,and others fall in
854
01:05:08,655 --> 01:05:11,074
and have to crash aboutand then climb out again.
855
01:05:12,867 --> 01:05:15,328
They don't seem to knowwhat to do at all, really.
856
01:05:29,008 --> 01:05:31,052
Oh, dear, falling over.
857
01:05:31,719 --> 01:05:33,138
Oh, gosh.
858
01:05:34,472 --> 01:05:35,765
Yeah, there they go.
859
01:05:39,310 --> 01:05:41,980
They jump like parachute jumpers,they don't jump like penguins.
860
01:05:42,147 --> 01:05:43,731
It's all jumping feet first.
861
01:05:46,484 --> 01:05:49,070
All right. Ready for youse.
862
01:05:50,113 --> 01:05:53,408
They're mainly coming upon this little bit here.
863
01:05:54,784 --> 01:05:56,202
No, no. Don't go there.
864
01:05:56,786 --> 01:05:59,080
That's entirely the wrong way.
865
01:06:00,248 --> 01:06:01,583
To me. To me.
866
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:03,501
Come on.
867
01:06:09,174 --> 01:06:11,009
We've been on the beach for the last week
868
01:06:11,176 --> 01:06:14,012
because the chicks have started to fledge.
869
01:06:15,013 --> 01:06:17,599
And their excitementat being in the water is just amazing.
870
01:06:17,765 --> 01:06:19,309
It's like any toddler, you know.
871
01:06:19,476 --> 01:06:21,936
It's like any kidwhen they see the sea, the ocean.
872
01:06:22,103 --> 01:06:24,272
They're just so happy.
They're in their element.
873
01:06:24,522 --> 01:06:26,649
And they're off. They're going.
874
01:06:26,816 --> 01:06:29,444
It's like, they're off for the sea ice,
for the winter, they're done.
875
01:06:30,737 --> 01:06:33,573
So this is the end of the storyfor us, actually.
876
01:06:33,948 --> 01:06:36,910
It's really lovely to see
the, kind of, season drawing to a close.
877
01:06:38,077 --> 01:06:39,954
Sophie's mission may be ending,
878
01:06:40,121 --> 01:06:44,542
but there's still one more chapterto the penguins' Antarctic adventure.
879
01:06:47,504 --> 01:06:51,674
It's one of the most dangerous momentsin a young chick's life,
880
01:06:52,050 --> 01:06:55,011
and it's the whole reasonthe boat team have battled their way
881
01:06:55,178 --> 01:06:57,889
so far south to Avian Island.
882
01:07:01,392 --> 01:07:04,771
Here, brash icestill surrounds the island.
883
01:07:07,565 --> 01:07:10,401
It's a major barrierthe chicks need to cross
884
01:07:10,568 --> 01:07:12,028
before they can reach the open sea.
885
01:07:13,738 --> 01:07:16,824
But it's what's below the surfacethat is the most feared.
886
01:07:19,702 --> 01:07:21,120
Leopard seals.
887
01:07:26,459 --> 01:07:29,796
Eleven feetof specialized penguin predator.
888
01:07:37,303 --> 01:07:39,597
The timing of this event
has been incredible,
889
01:07:39,764 --> 01:07:42,225
because as soon as the chicks
started to leave the island,
890
01:07:42,392 --> 01:07:43,726
leopard seals arrived.
891
01:07:46,145 --> 01:07:48,648
The seals seem to have some kind ofin-built calendar
892
01:07:48,815 --> 01:07:52,402
that brings them here exactlyon the same date as the penguins' leaving.
893
01:07:52,569 --> 01:07:54,153
It's amazing how nature works.
894
01:07:54,779 --> 01:07:55,822
There'd previously been none.
895
01:07:55,989 --> 01:07:58,908
There are maybe six, seven,or eight now around the island.
896
01:08:00,535 --> 01:08:03,246
It's a big, risky place out therefor a young penguin.
897
01:08:14,173 --> 01:08:16,718
For the story's climax,the team want to capture
898
01:08:16,884 --> 01:08:19,887
the nail-biting dramaof the seals hunting.
899
01:08:20,346 --> 01:08:22,557
Three camera crews cover the action,
900
01:08:23,141 --> 01:08:24,934
each from a different angle.
901
01:08:26,019 --> 01:08:29,188
I'm here with the Cineflex,so I'm filming topside,
902
01:08:29,522 --> 01:08:32,066
Doug is doing underwater,and then we've got John on land.
903
01:08:32,233 --> 01:08:34,777
So hopefully they can give us a wider view
and a different perspective on it.
904
01:08:35,445 --> 01:08:37,030
Hold still on the boat. Okay.
905
01:08:37,196 --> 01:08:40,116
Well, for us, we wanna make itfeel exciting and dramatic,
906
01:08:40,283 --> 01:08:42,827
so we're trying to give a sense of scale
to the leopard seals,
907
01:08:42,994 --> 01:08:45,371
and to be with the chicks
as they're moving through the ice,
908
01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:49,250
and wanna make people understandhow scary it is for the chicks, really.
909
01:08:50,918 --> 01:08:52,920
You've got thousands of chicksgetting into the water
910
01:08:53,087 --> 01:08:54,672
and these little lines streaming out.
911
01:08:54,839 --> 01:08:56,758
And then these leopard seals
come out of nowhere
912
01:08:56,924 --> 01:08:59,427
and just... utter mayhem.
913
01:09:12,273 --> 01:09:13,816
Amid all the chaos,
914
01:09:13,983 --> 01:09:17,153
the crew were facingexactly the same problem as the chicks.
915
01:09:19,322 --> 01:09:21,491
When the seal drops beneath the ice,
916
01:09:22,116 --> 01:09:25,328
no one knows where it will appear next.
917
01:09:26,579 --> 01:09:29,165
Okay. Everyone keep their eyes peeled
for the seal.
918
01:09:31,376 --> 01:09:34,170
It's like cat and mousewith the seal looking for the penguins
919
01:09:34,420 --> 01:09:36,047
and us looking for the seal.
920
01:09:36,381 --> 01:09:39,300
But from our point of view,
it's a needle in a haystack.
921
01:09:44,347 --> 01:09:45,890
- There it is.
- Yeah.
922
01:09:50,353 --> 01:09:52,939
He was just five meters to your right now.
923
01:09:58,861 --> 01:10:01,280
Okay. Doug's getting in the water now.
924
01:10:05,118 --> 01:10:07,161
The dive teamhope to have better luck.
925
01:10:07,328 --> 01:10:08,830
Okay, camera's booting.
926
01:10:09,330 --> 01:10:13,292
Underneath the ice,they shouldn't be able to hide so easily.
927
01:10:18,339 --> 01:10:21,926
But leopard sealsare masters of deception.
928
01:10:59,630 --> 01:11:03,509
Doug, they're at the back.
The other side.
929
01:11:20,359 --> 01:11:23,613
At last,one seal decides to reveal itself
930
01:11:24,155 --> 01:11:26,157
and Doug can start filming.
931
01:11:33,748 --> 01:11:35,708
We've finally caught upwith a leopard seal
932
01:11:35,875 --> 01:11:38,961
that doesn't seem to be
overly scared of Doug.
933
01:11:39,670 --> 01:11:42,381
They tend to be very skittish,don't like divers in the water,
934
01:11:42,548 --> 01:11:45,718
whereas this the first timewe've seen one actually hang around,
935
01:11:46,177 --> 01:11:49,013
and we're all crossing our fingersand hoping that Doug's getting the shots
936
01:11:49,180 --> 01:11:51,307
that we've been chasingfor days on end now.
937
01:11:52,225 --> 01:11:54,393
But just as Doug's luck is improving,
938
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:56,354
he has to stop filming.
939
01:11:56,521 --> 01:11:58,773
His hands are starting to freeze.
940
01:11:59,190 --> 01:12:00,191
Well done, Dougie.
941
01:12:00,358 --> 01:12:01,734
You're a trooper and a star.
942
01:12:01,901 --> 01:12:03,820
Yeah, crikey.
You must be cold by now.
943
01:12:05,404 --> 01:12:07,365
The seal has disappeared again.
944
01:12:08,074 --> 01:12:09,784
The deadly game resumes.
945
01:12:16,791 --> 01:12:18,960
Right now we're just waitingfor them to catch a chick.
946
01:12:19,126 --> 01:12:21,337
You know, we're trying to get the chick
being caught by the leopard seal,
947
01:12:21,504 --> 01:12:22,505
then escaping.
948
01:12:22,672 --> 01:12:24,882
That's sort of our raison d'être.
949
01:12:29,595 --> 01:12:32,139
The odds are stackedagainst the chicks.
950
01:12:32,682 --> 01:12:35,059
Those chicks are in trouble.They're really struggling.
951
01:12:38,729 --> 01:12:40,064
Oh!
952
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:46,445
But some do manage to get away.
953
01:12:52,869 --> 01:12:53,995
Oh, that's a clever penguin.
954
01:12:55,329 --> 01:12:56,998
It's amazing how they actually escape.
955
01:12:57,373 --> 01:13:00,668
The crew's challengeis to film how they do it.
956
01:13:02,336 --> 01:13:04,630
No, we got a really good take
with that one, Raz.
957
01:13:05,047 --> 01:13:07,758
Okay. He's coming around,
back of the boat.
958
01:13:13,139 --> 01:13:15,975
As the seal hones inon a vulnerable chick,
959
01:13:16,475 --> 01:13:18,561
the final scene plays out,
960
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:23,524
and the chick's incredible escape trickis about to be revealed.
961
01:13:34,785 --> 01:13:37,788
They literally play dead.
962
01:13:39,415 --> 01:13:42,418
When you see chick get draggedunderwater and then a few minutes later
963
01:13:42,585 --> 01:13:43,628
it pops up again...
964
01:13:44,211 --> 01:13:46,172
It's... yeah.
It's really, really exciting.
965
01:13:52,094 --> 01:13:54,680
Is the guy still alive
or is he just acting dead?
966
01:13:56,557 --> 01:13:59,143
The chicks hopethat the seal will lose interest...
967
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,065
and allow them one last chance...
968
01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:07,318
to escape.
969
01:14:15,368 --> 01:14:17,954
That was the last shot
that we needed to get.
970
01:14:18,579 --> 01:14:21,082
We've got everything, which is amazing.
971
01:14:30,508 --> 01:14:33,219
It's taken remarkablephysical endurance...
972
01:14:34,971 --> 01:14:36,847
...unparalleled innovation,
973
01:14:37,014 --> 01:14:40,810
expertise, patience, and determination.
974
01:14:42,436 --> 01:14:44,647
But finally, the Disneynature team
975
01:14:44,814 --> 01:14:48,943
has captured the life of the Adelieas never before.
976
01:14:52,947 --> 01:14:56,325
It's the amazing story of theseunstoppable little penguins
977
01:14:56,575 --> 01:14:59,537
and their heroic fightto breed and survive
978
01:14:59,704 --> 01:15:02,915
in one of the harshest places on Earth.
979
01:15:11,674 --> 01:15:13,467
When you get... uh, come down here,
980
01:15:13,884 --> 01:15:18,597
you're issued with uh,
special outdoor safety equipment
981
01:15:19,056 --> 01:15:21,142
to combat the cold and the conditions.
982
01:15:21,976 --> 01:15:27,565
And uh...
most important of these is a... beard,
983
01:15:28,190 --> 01:15:31,402
the uh... the long...
the long, gray beard.
984
01:15:31,569 --> 01:15:34,071
And uh, that often...
you can use that in a lot of ways.
985
01:15:34,613 --> 01:15:38,159
It protects your lower face area.
986
01:15:39,410 --> 01:15:41,328
Um, often really useful.
987
01:15:41,495 --> 01:15:43,789
And, of course, the... the penguin beak,
988
01:15:43,956 --> 01:15:47,251
which enables you to get closer
to penguins.
989
01:15:47,585 --> 01:15:49,378
Are they standard issue,
or are they specifically for...
990
01:15:49,545 --> 01:15:51,255
No, they're... they're only for media.
991
01:15:51,964 --> 01:15:53,924
Yeah, for media, because, uh,
992
01:15:54,341 --> 01:15:56,177
we don't wanna upset the penguins,
993
01:15:56,343 --> 01:15:58,721
so you gotta try
and blend in a little bit.
994
01:15:59,263 --> 01:16:03,642
So there, obviously, look alike,
like a penguin immediately.
995
01:16:03,809 --> 01:16:04,894
Um...
996
01:16:05,061 --> 01:16:09,398
And, uh... And then... then often, they...
997
01:16:09,565 --> 01:16:12,818
If... If you're from, uh, the UK,
they'll often give you a wig.
83394
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