The premiere of “Secrets of the White Sea” continues the line of films about the Black and Caspian Seas. These films were shown at Russian universities, at the science festivals “Science 0+” and “FANK”, and were also nominated for the “For Fidelity to Science” and “Crystal Compass” awards, and were shown at the “Russia” documentary film festival.

To work on the project, the canal attracted specialists from the diving service of the BBS MG, the Faculty of Biology of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the A.P. Karpinsky All-Russian Research Geological Institute, the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as independent researchers.

Experts will talk about the ancient Dickinsonia, an organism that lived 558 million years ago. Viewers will see the mysterious world of Zalavruga petroglyphs, the stone labyrinths of Solovki, and a unique scientific center in the Velikaya Salma Strait. In it, biological divers under the leadership of Alexander Semenov, a marine biologist and world-famous underwater photographer, head of the diving service of the White Sea Biological Station of Moscow State University, deliver living marine organisms to scientists.

“It seems that in this cold North Sea, under this icy snow cap, there is nothing at all, it is so cold and harsh. But when you dive under water, it turns out that this is an absolutely amazing world, inhabited by fantastic creatures – bright, beautiful, which form unique ecosystems and entire huge biotopes there, completely different: these are muddy plains, flowing biotopes, and kelp forests in which shrimp, mysids, sessile jellyfish live… You approach some boulder at the bottom and you see that it is all covered with hydroid polyps, similar to small bushes, sponges. Sea spiders, sea goats sit on these sponges, and snails crawl. If you turn over a stone, under it there will be brittle stars, huge polychaetes Nereis, nemerteans and other interesting creatures!” — says Alexander Semenov.

How do scientists and divers reveal the secrets of the inhabitants of the White Sea? Why was he called White? Which ancient artists decorated the shores of this reservoir with petroglyphs? Who built the mysterious stone labyrinths on the Solovetsky Islands?

The premiere of the new documentary film “Secrets of the White Sea” of the “Scientific Sensations” project will take place on Saturday, October 25, at 19:00, and the program will be repeated on Sunday, October 26, at 9:50 am on the “Science” TV channel.

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