Tales of ice-bound wonderlands | Paul Nicklen

Prevoditelj: Mislav Ante Omazić - EFZG Recezent: Tilen Pigac - EFZG

My journey to become a polar specialist,

Moje putovanje kako bih postao polarni ekspert,

photographing, specializing in the polar regions,

fotografiranje, specijalizacija za polarne regije,

began when I was four years old,

počelo je kada sam imao četiri godine,

when my family moved from southern Canada

kada se moja obitelj preselila iz južne Kanade

to Northern Baffin Island, up by Greenland.

u sjeverni Baffin Island, pokraj Greenlanda.

There we lived with the Inuit

Tamo smo živjeli s Eskimima.

in the tiny Inuit community of 200 Inuit people,

U maloj eskimskoj zajednici od 200 članova,

where [we] were one of three non-Inuit families.

mi smo bili jedna od tri ne-eskimske obitelji.

And in this community, we didn't have a television;

I u toj zajednici, mi nismo imali televiziju;

we didn't have computers, obviously, radio.

nismo imali računala, očito, radio.

We didn't even have a telephone.

Nismo imali telefon.

All of my time was spent outside

Svo vrijeme sam provodio vani

with the Inuit, playing.

s Eskimima, igrajući se.

The snow and the ice were my sandbox,

Snijeg i led su bili moje igralište,

and the Inuit were my teachers.

a Eskimi moji učitelji.

And that's where I became

I tu sam postao

truly obsessed with this polar realm.

stvarno opsjednut polarnom stvarnošću.

And I knew someday that I was going to do something

I znao sam kako ću jednog dana napraviti nešto

that had to do with trying to share news about it

što će biti povezano s dijeljenjem novosti o tome

and protect it.

i zaštitom toga.

I'd like to share with you, for just two minutes only,

Volio bih s vama podijeliti, samo na dvije minute,

some images, a cross-section of my work,

neke slike, pregled mog rada,

to the beautiful music by Brandi Carlile, "Have You Ever."

uz prekrasnu glazbu od Brandi Carlile, "Jesi li ikada".

I don't know why National Geographic has done this, they've never done this before,

Ne znam zašto je National Geographic to napravio, to nikada ranije nisu napravili,

but they're allowing me to show you a few images

ali su mi dozvolili da vam pokažem nekoliko slika

from a coverage that I've just completed that is not published yet.

iz reportaže koju sam upravo završio a koja još nije objavljena.

National Geographic doesn't do this,

National Geographic to ne radi.

so I'm very excited to be able to share this with you.

Zato sam jako uzbuđen što mogu to podijeliti s vama.

And what these images are --

A ono što ove slike jesu --

you'll see them at the start of the slide show -- there's only about four images --

vidjeti ćete ih na početku prezentacije -- imamo samo nekoliko slika --

but it's of a little bear that lives in the Great Bear Rainforest.

ali one predstavljaju male medvjede koji žive u prašumi Great Bear.

It's pure white, but it's not a polar bear.

Skroz su bijeli ali nisu polarni medvjedi.

It's a spirit bear, or a Kermode bear.

To je medvjed duh, ili Kermode medvjed.

There are only 200 of these bears left.

Ostalo je još samo 200 tih medvjeda.

They're more rare than the panda bear.

Oni su rijeđi od panda.

I sat there on the river for two months without seeing one.

Sjedio sam tamo na rijeci dva mjeseca a da niti jednog nisam vidio.

I thought, my career's over.

Mislio sam, moja je karijera gotova.

I proposed this stupid story to National Geographic.

Predložio sam tu glupu priču National Geographicu.

What in the heck was I thinking?

Što sam, dovraga, mislio?

So I had two months to sit there

Tako sam imao dva mjeseca za sjediti tamo

and figure out different ways of what I was going to do in my next life,

i razmišljati o različitim opcijama što ću raditi ostatak života,

after I was a photographer, because they were going to fire me.

nakon fotografske karijere, jer će me otpustiti.

Because National Geographic is a magazine; they remind us all the time:

Jer National Geographic je magazin; to nas podsjećaju cijelo vrijeme,

they publish pictures, not excuses.

oni objavljuju slike, ne isprike.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And after two months of sitting there --

I nakon što sam dva mjeseca tamo sjedio --

one day, thinking that it was all over,

jednog dana, dok sam razmišljao kako je sve gotovo,

this incredible big white male came down,

taj nevjerojatni bijeli mužjak se spustio,

right beside me, three feet away from me,

točno pored mene, jedan metar od mene,

and he went down and grabbed a fish and went off in the forest and ate it.

i spustio se dolje i zgrabio ribu i otišao u šumu i pojeo ju.

And then I spent the entire day living my childhood dream

I onda sam proveo cijeli dan proživljavajući dječački san

of walking around with this bear through the forest.

hodanja okolo s tim medvjedom kroz šumu.

He went through this old-growth forest

On je hodao tom starom šumom

and sat up beside this 400-year-old culturally modified tree and went to sleep.

i sjeo pored tog 400 godina kulturološki-modificiranog drveta i zaspao.

And I actually got to sleep within three feet of him,

I ja sam u stvari zaspao metar udaljen od njega,

just in the forest, and photograph him.

upravo u šumi, i fotografirao ga.

So I'm very excited to be able to show you those images

Tako da sam jako uzbuđen što vam mogu pokazati te slike

and a cross-section of my work that I've done on the polar regions.

i pregled svog rada koji sam napravio u polarnim regijama.

Please enjoy.

Molim vas uživajte.

(Music)

(Glazba)

Brandi Carlile: ♫ Have you ever wandered lonely through the woods? ♫

Brandi Carlile: ♫ Jesi li ikada lutao usamljen šumama? ♫

♫ And everything there feels just as it should ♫

♫ I sve tamo je upravo onakvo kakvo bi trebalo biti ♫

♫ You're part of the life there ♫

♫ Ti si dio života tamo ♫

♫ You're part of something good ♫

♫ Ti si dio nečeg dobrog ♫

♫ If you've ever wandered lonely through the woods ♫

♫ Ako si ikada lutao usamljen šumama ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ If you've ever wandered lonely through the woods ♫

♫ Ako si ikada lutao usamljen šumama ♫

♫ Have you ever stared into a starry sky? ♫

♫ Jesi li se ikada zagledao u zvjezdano nebo? ♫

♫ Lying on your back, you're asking why ♫

♫ Ležeći na leđima, pitaš se zašto ♫

♫ What's the purpose? ♫

♫ Koja je svrha? ♫

♫ I wonder, who am I? ♫

♫ Pitam se, tko sam ja? ♫

♫ If you've ever stared into a starry sky ♫

♫ Ako si se ikada zagledao u zvjezdano nebo ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Aah, ah, aah ♫

♫ Aah, ah, aah ♫

♫ Ah, oh, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh ♫

♫ Ah, oh, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh ♫

♫ Have you ever stared into a starry sky? ♫

♫ Jesi li se ikada zagledao u zvjezdano nebo? ♫

♫ Have you ever been out walking in the snow? ♫

♫ Jesi li ikada vani hodao po snijegu? ♫

♫ Tried to get back where you were before ♫

♫ Pokušavajući se vratiti tamo gdje si nekada bio ♫

♫ You always end up ♫

♫ Uvijek završiš ♫

♫ Not knowing where to go ♫

♫ Ne znajući gdje da ideš ♫

♫ If you've ever been out walking in the snow ♫

♫ Ako si ikada vani hodao po snijegu ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Aah, ah, aah, ah, aah ♫

♫ Aah, ah, aah, ah, aah ♫

♫ Ah, ah, oh, ah, ah, oh, ah ♫

♫ Ah, ah, oh, ah, ah, oh, ah ♫

♫ Oh, ah, ah, ah ♫

♫ Oh, ah, ah, ah ♫

♫ Ah, ah, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh ♫

♫ Ah, ah, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh ♫

♫ If you'd ever been out walking you would know ♫

♫ Ako si ikada hodao vani onda ćeš znati ♫

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Paul Nicklen: Thank you very much. The show's not over.

Paul Nicklen: Puno vam hvala. Predstava nije gotova.

My clock is ticking. OK, let's stop.

Moj sat otkucava. U redu, stanimo.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Puno vam hvala. Cijenim to.

We're inundated with news all the time

Mi smo cijelo vrijeme zatrpani vijestima

that the sea ice is disappearing

kako morski led nestaje

and it's at its lowest level.

i da se nalazi na najnižoj razini.

And in fact, scientists were originally saying

A u stvari, znanstvenici u stvari govore

sea ice is going to disappear in the next hundred years, then they said 50 years.

morski led će nestati u slijedećih 100 godina, onda kažu 50 godina.

Now they're saying the sea ice in the Arctic,

Sada govore o morskom ledu na Artiku,

the summertime extent is going to be gone in the next four to 10 years.

ljetno produljenje će nestati u slijedećih četiri do 10 godina.

And what does that mean?

I što to znači?

After a while of reading this in the news, it just becomes news.

Nakon što to neko vrijeme čitate u vijestima, postane samo vijest.

You glaze over with it.

Prijeđete preko njih.

And what I'm trying to do with my work is put faces to this.

I ono što pokušavam svojim radom jest dati svemu lica.

And I want people to understand and get the concept

I želim da ljudi razumiju i dobiju koncept

that, if we lose ice,

da, ako izgubimo led,

we stand to lose an entire ecosystem.

možemo izgubiti cijeli ekosustav.

Projections are that we could lose polar bears, they could become extinct

Projekcije govore kako možemo izgubiti polarne medvjede, oni će isčeznuti,

in the next 50 to 100 years.

u slijedećih 50 do 100 godina.

And there's no better, sexier,

I nema bolje, više seksi,

more beautiful, charismatic megafauna species

ljepše, karizmatičnije megafaunske vrste

for me to hang my campaign on.

oko koje mogu izgraditi kampanju.

Polar bears are amazing hunters.

Polarni medvjedi su nevjerojatni lovci.

This was a bear I sat with for a while on the shores.

Ovo je medvjed s kojim sam sjedio neko vrijeme na obalama.

There was no ice around.

Nije bilo leda okolo,

But this glacier caved into the water and a seal got on it.

ali glečer se ulegnuo u vodu i tuljan se popeo na njega.

And this bear swam out to that seal --

I ovaj medvjed je plivao do tog tuljana --

800 lb. bearded seal --

brkati tuljan od 600 kg --

grabbed it, swam back and ate it.

zgrabio ga, otplivao nazad i pojeo ga.

And he was so full, he was so happy and so fat eating this seal,

I bio je toliko pun, bio je toliko sretan i toliko debel jer je pojeo tog tuljana,

that, as I approached him --

da, kako sam mu se približavao --

about 20 feet away -- to get this picture,

na nekih 6 metara -- kako bih snimio ovu sliku,

his only defense was to keep eating more seal.

njegova jedina obrana bila je da nastavi jesti.

And as he ate, he was so full --

I dok je jeo, bio je tako pun --

he probably had about 200 lbs of meat in his belly --

vjerojatno je imao oko 90 kg mesa u svom trbuhu --

and as he ate inside one side of his mouth,

i dok je jeo na jednu stranu usta,

he was regurgitating out the other side of his mouth.

na drugu stranu je povraćao.

So as long as these bears have any bit of ice they will survive,

Dakle, toliko dugo dok će ti medvjedi imati ikakav komadić leda oni će preživjeti,

but it's the ice that's disappearing.

ali to je led koji nestaje.

We're finding more and more dead bears in the Arctic.

Pronalazimo sve više mrtvih medvjeda na Artiku.

When I worked on polar bears as a biologist 20 years ago,

Dok sam radio na polarnim medvjedima kao biolog prije 20 godina,

we never found dead bears.

nikada ne bismo našli mrtvog medvjeda.

And in the last four or five years,

A u zadnjih četiri ili pet godina,

we're finding dead bears popping up all over the place.

nailazimo na mrtve medvjede po cijelom mjestu.

We're seeing them in the Beaufort Sea,

Vidimo ih u Beaufortovu moru,

floating in the open ocean where the ice has melted out.

kako plutaju na otvorenom oceanu gdje se led topi.

I found a couple in Norway last year. We're seeing them on the ice.

Pronašao sam nekoliko u Norveškoj prošle godine. Vidimo ih na ledu.

These bears are already showing signs

Ti medvjedi već pokazuju znakove

of the stress of disappearing ice.

stresa zbog nestanka leda.

Here's a mother and her two year-old cub

Ovdje je majka s njezinim dvogodišnjim mladunčem

were traveling on a ship a hundred miles offshore in the middle of nowhere,

kako putuje brodom stotine kilometara od obale usred ničega,

and they're riding on this big piece of glacier ice,

i voze se na tom velikom komadu glečera,

which is great for them; they're safe at this point.

koji je sjajan za njih; oni su sigurni u tom trenutku.

They're not going to die of hypothermia.

Neće umrijeti od hipotermije.

They're going to get to land.

Doći će do obale.

But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic

Ali na nesreću, 95 posto glečera na Artiku

are also receding right now

se također otapa upravo sada

to the point that the ice is ending up on land

do točke gdje led završava na obali

and not injecting any ice back into the ecosystem.

i ne vraća nimalo leda nazad u ekosustav.

These ringed seals, these are the "fatsicles" of the Arctic.

Ovi prstenasti tuljani, oni su zalihe sala Artika.

These little, fat dumplings,

Te male, debele knedle

150-pound bundles of blubber

70 kg teške gomile masti

are the mainstay of the polar bear.

jesu oslonac za polarnog medvjeda.

And they're not like the harbor seals that you have here.

I oni nisu poput uobičajenih tuljana koje imate ovdje.

These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle

To prstenasti tuljani također žive ovdje cijeli životni ciklus

associated and connected to sea ice.

povezani i spojeni s morskim ledom.

They give birth inside the ice,

Oni daju život unutar leda,

and they feed on the Arctic cod that live under the ice.

i hrane se artičkim bakalarom koji živi ispod leda.

And here's a picture of sick ice.

A ovdje je slika bolesnog leda.

This is a piece of multi-year ice that's 12 years old.

Ovo je komad višegodišnjeg leda koji je 12 godina star.

And what scientists didn't predict is that, as this ice melts,

A ono što znanstvenici nisu predvidjeli jest, da kako se taj led topi,

these big pockets of black water are forming

ti veliki džepovi crne vode se stvaraju

and they're grabbing the sun's energy

i gutaju sunčevu energiju

and accelerating the melting process.

te ubrzavaju proces otapanja.

And here we are diving in the Beaufort Sea.

A ovdje ronimo u Beaufortovo more.

The visibility's 600 ft.; we're on our safety lines;

Vidljivost je 180 metara; mi smo na našim sigurnosnim linijama;

the ice is moving all over the place.

led se miče cijelim mjestom.

I wish I could spend half an hour telling you

Želio bih da mogu potrošiti pola sata govoreći vam

about how we almost died on this dive.

kako smo umalo poginuli pri ovom uronu.

But what's important in this picture is that you have a piece of multi-year ice,

Ali ono što je važno na ovoj slici da imate komad višegodišnjeg leda,

that big chunk of ice up in the corner.

taj veliki komad gore u kutu.

In that one single piece of ice,

U tom jednom komadu leda,

you have 300 species of microorganisms.

imate 300 vrsta mikroorganizama.

And in the spring, when the sun returns to the ice,

A u proljeće, kada se sunce vrati na led,

it forms the phytoplankton, grows under that ice,

ono oblikuje, fitoplanktone koji rastu ispod leda,

and then you get bigger sheets of seaweed,

i onda dobijete veće komade morskih algi,

and then you get the zooplankton feeding on all that life.

i onda dobijete zooplankton koji se hrani svim tim životom.

So really what the ice does

Ono što led čini

is it acts like a garden.

jest da se ponaša poput vrta.

It acts like the soil in a garden. It's an inverted garden.

Ponaša se poput zemlje u vrtu. On je izokrenuti vrt.

Losing that ice is like losing the soil in a garden.

Gubljenje tog leda je poput gubljenja zemlje u vrtu.

Here's me in my office.

Ovdje sam ja u uredu.

I hope you appreciate yours.

Nadam se da cijenite svoj.

This is after an hour under the ice.

Ovo je nakon sata ispod leda.

I can't feel my lips; my face is frozen;

Ne osjećam usne; lice mi je smrznuto;

I can't feel my hands; I can't feel my feet.

ne osjećam svoje ruke; ne osjećam svoje noge.

And I've come up, and all I wanted to do was get out of the water.

I digao sam se, i sve što želim jest izaći iz vode.

After an hour in these conditions,

Nakon sata u tim uvjetima,

it's so extreme that, when I go down,

to je toliko ekstremno, kada idete dolje,

almost every dive I vomit into my regulator

gotovo pri svakom uronu povraćam u svoj regulator

because my body can't deal with the stress of the cold on my head.

jer se moje tijelo ne može nositi sa stresom hladnoće u mojoj glavi.

And so I'm just so happy that the dive is over.

I tako sam jako sretan što je uron gotov.

I get to hand my camera to my assistant,

Došao sam do toga da kameru dam asistentu,

and I'm looking up at him, and I'm going, "Woo. Woo. Woo."

i gledam ga, i govorim, "Vuuu, vuuu, vuuu."

Which means, "Take my camera."

Što znači, "Uzmi kameru."

And he thinks I'm saying, "Take my picture."

A on misli da mu govorim, "Slikaj me."

So we had this little communication breakdown.

Tako da smo imali taj mali komunikacijski nesporazum.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But it's worth it.

Ali je bio vrijedan toga.

I'm going to show you pictures of beluga whales, bowhead whales,

Pokazati ću vam slike beluga kitova, grenlandskih kitova,

and narwhals, and polar bears, and leopard seals today,

i narvala, i polarnih medvjeda, leopard tuljana danas,

but this picture right here means more to me than any other I've ever made.

ali ova slika ovdje znači mi više od bilo koje koju sam sam ikada napravio.

I dropped down in this ice hole, just through that hole that you just saw,

Skočio sam u tu ledenu rupu, samo kroz tu rupu koju ste upravo vidjeli,

and I looked up under the underside of the ice,

i pogledao prema gore ispod druge strane leda,

and I was dizzy; I thought I had vertigo.

i meni se vrtjelo; mislio sam kako imam vrtoglavicu.

I got very nervous -- no rope, no safety line,

Postao sam jako nervozan -- nema užeta, nema sigurne linije,

the whole world is moving around me --

cijeli svijet se okreće oko mene --

and I thought, "I'm in trouble."

i pomislio sam, "Sada sam u nevolji."

But what happened is that the entire underside

Ali ono što se dogodilo je da je cijela druga strana leda

was full of these billions of amphipods and copepods

bila prepuna milijardama tih amfipoda i kopepoda

moving around and feeding on the underside of the ice,

koji su se okolo kretali i hranili po toj površini leda,

giving birth and living out their entire life cycle.

rađajući i živeći cijeli svoj životni ciklus.

This is the foundation of the whole food chain in the Arctic, right here.

To je temelj cijelog hranidbenog lanca Artika, baš ovdje.

And when you have low productivity in this, in ice,

I kada imate nisku produktivnost tu, u ledu,

the productivity in copepods go down.

produktivnost kopepoda padne.

This is a bowhead whale.

Ovo je plavetni kit.

Supposedly, science is stating

Navodno, znanost tvrdi

that it could be the oldest living animal on earth right now.

kako bi mogao biti najstarija živuća životinja na zemlji sada.

This very whale right here could be over 250 years old.

Ovaj ovdje kit bi mogao biti star preko 250 godina.

This whale could have been born

Ovaj kit se mogao roditi

around the start of the Industrial Revolution.

na početku industrijske revolucije.

It could have survived 150 years of whaling.

Mogao je preživjeti 150 godina izlova kitova.

And now its biggest threat is the disappearance of ice in the North

A sada je njegova najveća prijetnja nestanak leda na Sjeveru

because of the lives that we're leading in the South.

zbog života kakav vodimo na Jugu.

Narwhals, these majestic narwhals

Narvali, ti prekrasni narvali

with their eight-foot long ivory tusks, don't have to be here;

sa svojim 2,5 metra dugačkim kljovama, ne bi trebali biti ovdje;

they could be out on the open water.

oni bi trebali biti dalje na otvorenom moru.

But they're forcing themselves to come up in these tiny little ice holes

Ali se prisiljavaju da dođu tu u te malene ledene rupe

where they can breathe, catch a breath,

gdje mogu disati, uhvatiti dah,

because right under that ice are all the swarms of cod.

jer su upravo pod tim ledom jata bakalara.

And the cod are there

A bakalari su ovdje

because they are feeding on all the copepods and amphipods.

jer se hrane svim tim kopepodima i amfipodima.

Alright, my favorite part.

Dobro, moj najdraži dio.

When I'm on my deathbed,

Kada budem na smrtnoj postelji,

I'm going to remember one story more than any other.

sjetiti ću se jedne priče više od svih drugih.

Even though that spirit bear moment was powerful,

Premda je taj trenutak s duhom medvjeda bio snažan,

I don't think I'll ever have another experience

ne vjerujem kako ću ikada više iskusiti

like I did with these leopard seals.

ono što sam doživio s tim morskim leopardom.

Leopard seals, since the time of Shackleton, have had a bad reputation.

Morski leopardi, još od vremena Shackletona, imaju lošu reputaciju.

They've got that wryly smile on their mouth.

Oni su dobili taj specifičan osmjeh na svojim ustima.

They've got those black sinister eyes

Oni imaju te crne zlokobne oči

and those spots on their body.

i te točke po svom tijelu.

They look positively prehistoric and a bit scary.

Oni izgledaju pozitivno predpovijesno i pomalo zastrašujuće.

And tragically in [2003],

I tragično 2004. godine

a scientist was taken down and drowned,

je jedna znanstvenica odvučena i potopljena,

and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

i pojeli su je morski leopardi.

And people were like, "We knew they were vicious. We knew they were."

I ljudi su govorili, "Znali smo da su zlobni. Znali smo."

And so people love to form their opinions.

I tako ljudi vole formirati svoje mišljenje.

And that's when I got a story idea:

I onda sam dobio ideju za priču:

I want to go to Antarctica,

želim otići na Antartiku,

get in the water with as many leopard seals as I possibly can

i otići u vodu, okružen s koliko god je moguće morskih leoparda

and give them a fair shake --

i pošteno ih protresti --

find out if they really are these vicious animals, or if they're misunderstood.

saznati jesu li stvarno zlobne životinje, ili su krivo shvaćene.

So this is that story.

Dakle, ovo je moja priča.

Oh, and they also happen to eat Happy Feet.

Oh, da i oni također jedu slatke pingvine.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

As a species, as humans, we like to say penguins are really cute,

Kao vrsta, kao ljudi, kažemo da su pingvini stvarno slatki,

therefore, leopard seals eat them, so leopard seals are ugly and bad.

zato, jer ih morski leopradi jedu, morski leopardi su ružni i zločesti.

It doesn't work that way.

Ne funkcioniraju stvari na taj način.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute,

Pingvini ne znaju da su slatki.

and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous.

A morski leopardi ne znaju da su veliki i monstruozni.

This is just the food chain unfolding.

Tu se radi samo o hranidbenom lancu.

They're also big.

Oni su također veliki.

They're not these little harbor seals.

Oni nisu ti maleni lučki tuljani.

They are 12 ft. long, a thousand pounds.

Oni imaju preko 3,5 metra i 450 kilograma.

And they're also curiously aggressive.

I znatiželjno su agresivni.

You get 12 tourists packed into a Zodiac,

Dobijete 12 turista natrpanih na Zodiac,

floating in these icy waters,

koji plove po tim ledenim vodama,

and a leopard seal comes up and bites the pontoon.

i morski leopardi dođu i ugrizu ponton.

The boat starts to sink, they race back to the ship

Brod počne tonuti, oni odjure natrag na brod

and get to go home and tell the stories of how they got attacked.

i odu kućama s pričom kaku su napadnuti.

All the leopard seal was doing --

Sve što je morski leopard radio --

it's just biting a balloon.

jest da je ugizao balon.

It just sees this big balloon in the ocean -- it doesn't have hands --

On vidi samo taj veliki balon u oceanu -- on nema ruke --

it's going to take a little bite, the boat pops, and off they go.

samo hoće malo gricnuti, brod pukne i oni odu.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So after five days of crossing the Drake Passage --

Nakon pet dana prelaženja Drakeovog prolaza --

isn't that beautiful --

nije li prekrasno.

after five days of crossing the Drake Passage,

Nakon pet dana prelaženja Drakeovog prolaza

we have finally arrived at Antarctica.

konačno smo stigli na Antartiku.

I'm with my Swedish assistant and guide.

Ja sam sa svojim švedskim asistentom i vodičem.

His name is Goran Ehlme from Sweden -- Goran.

Njegovo ime je Goran Ehlme iz Švedske -- Goran.

And he has a lot of experience with leopard seals. I have never seen one.

I on ima puno iskustva s morskim lavovima. Ja nisam niti jednog vidio.

So we come around the cove in our little Zodiac boat,

Tako smo došli okolo zaljeva u našem malom čamcu Zodiac,

and there's this monstrous leopard seal.

i tamo je bio taj monstruozni morski leopard.

And even in his voice, he goes, "That's a bloody big seal, ya."

I čak u svom glasu on nam kaže, "Ovo je krvavi tuljan, da."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And this seal is taking this penguin by the head,

I taj tuljan zgrabi tog pingvina za glavu,

and it's flipping it back and forth.

a on se bacaka naprijed, nazad.

And what it's trying to do is turn that penguin inside-out,

I ono što pokušava napraviti jest prebaciti tog pingvina iznutra prema vani

so it can eat the meat off the bones,

kako bi mogao pojesti meso s kostiju,

and then it goes off and gets another one.

i onda ode i zgrabi drugoga.

And so this leopard seal grabbed another penguin,

I tako taj morski leopard zgrabi drugog pingvina,

came under the boat, the Zodiac,

ode ispod čamca, Zodiaca,

starting hitting the hull of the boat.

započevši udarati trup čamca.

And we're trying to not fall in the water.

I mi pokušavamo ne upasti u vodu.

And we sit down, and that's when Goran said to me,

I tako sjednemo, i onda mi Goran kaže,

"This is a good seal, ya.

"Ovo je dobar tuljan, da.

It's time for you to get in the water."

Vrijeme je da uđeš u vodu."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And I looked at Goran, and I said to him, "Forget that."

A ja pogledam Gorana, i kažem mu, "Zaboravi to."

But I think I probably used a different word starting with the letter "F."

Ali mislim da sam upotrijebio drugu riječ koja započinje sa "J".

But he was right.

Ali on je bio u pravu.

He scolded me out, and said, "This is why we're here.

On me iskritizirao i rekao, "Pa zbog toga smo ovdje.

And you purposed this stupid story to National Geographic.

I ti si predložio tu glupu priču National Geographic-u.

And now you've got to deliver.

I sada je moraš isporučiti.

And you can't publish excuses."

A ispriku ne možeš objaviti."

So I had such dry mouth --

Tako sam ostao jako suhih usta --

probably not as bad as now --

vjerojatno ne toliko suhih kao sada --

but I had such, such dry mouth.

ali imao sam tako, tako suha usta.

And my legs were just trembling. I couldn't feel my legs.

A moje noge su se tresle. Nisam mogao osjetiti noge.

I put my flippers on. I could barely part my lips.

Stavio sam peraje. Jedva sam spojio usne.

I put my snorkel in my mouth,

Stavio sam dihalicu u usta,

and I rolled over the side of the Zodiac into the water.

i prevrnuo sam se sa strane Zodiaca u vodu.

And this was the first thing she did.

I to je bila prva stvar koju je napravila.

She came racing up to me, engulfed my whole camera --

Došla je brzo do mene, uhvatila cijelu moju kameru --

and her teeth are up here and down here --

i njeni zubi su ovdje gore i dolje --

but Goran, before I had gotten in the water, had given me amazing advice.

ali Goran, mi je prije nego što sam ušao u vodu, dao sjajan savjet.

He said, "If you get scared, you close your eyes, ya, and she'll go away."

Rekao je, "Ako si preplašen, zatvori oči, da, i ona će otići."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So that's all I had to work with at that point.

Tako sam i to napravio u tom trenutku.

But I just started to shoot these pictures.

Ali sam počeo i snimati te fotografije.

So she did this threat display for a few minutes,

Tako je ona prijetila nekoliko minuta,

and then the most amazing thing happened -- she totally relaxed.

i onda se dogodila nevjerojatna stvar -- ona se potpuno opustila.

She went off, she got a penguin.

Otišla je, zgrabila pingvina.

She stopped about 10 feet away from me,

Stala je koja tri metra od mene,

and she sat there with this penguin, the penguin's flapping, and she let's it go.

i onda je sjela s tim pingvinom, pingvin se bacakao, a ona ga je pustila.

The penguin swims toward me, takes off.

Pingvin je zaplivao prema meni, i pobjegao.

She grabs another one. She does this over and over.

Zgrabila je još jednog. I radila to iznova.

And it dawned on me that she's trying to feed me a penguin.

I onda mi je sinulo, ona me pokušava nahraniti s pingvinom.

Why else would she release these penguins at me?

Zbog čega drugoga bi ona puštala te pingvine?

And after she did this four or five times,

I nakon što je to napravila četiri ili pet puta,

she swam by me with this dejected look on her face.

zaplivala je pored mene s ovim bezvoljnim pogledom na licu.

You don't want to be too anthropomorphic, but I swear that she looked at me

Ne želim biti previše antropomorfan, ali kunem se da je gledala u mene

like, "This useless predator's going to starve in my ocean."

"Ovaj beskorisni predator će gladovati u mom oceanu."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins,

Nakon što je shvatila da ne mogu uhvatiti plivajućeg pingvina,

she'd get these other penguins and bring them slowly towards me,

zgrabila je tog drugog pingvina i dovela ga polako prema meni,

bobbing like this, and she'd let them go.

ljuljajući ga ovako, i ona bi ga pustila.

This didn't work.

To nije funkcioniralo.

I was laughing so hard and so emotional

Smijao sam se tako jako i emocionalno

that my mask was flooding, because I was crying underwater,

da se moja maska napunila vodom, jer sam plakao ispod površine vode,

just because it was so amazing.

jer je bilo toliko nevjerojatno.

And so that didn't work.

I tako to nije funkcioniralo.

So then she'd get another penguin and try this ballet-like sexy display

I tako bi ona zgrabila slijedećeg pingvina i krenula s tim baletskim seksi prikazom

sliding down this iceberg like this. (Laughter)

klizeći po toj santi ovako.

And she would sort of bring them over to me and offer it to me.

I ona bi ih na neki način dovela meni i ponudila ih.

This went on for four days.

I to je bilo tako četiri dana.

This just didn't happen a couple of times.

To se nije dogodilo nekoliko puta.

And then so she realized I couldn't catch live ones,

I onda je shvatila da ja ne mogu uhvatiti žive,

so she brought me dead penguins.

tako da mi je donijela mrtve pingvine.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Now I've got four or five penguins floating around my head,

Tako sam imao četiri ili pet mrtvih pingvina koji su plovili oko moje glave,

and I'm just sitting there shooting away.

a ja samo sjedim tamo i slikam.

And she would often stop and have this dejected look on her face

A ona bi se često zaustavila i imala taj potišten pogled na svom licu

like, "Are you for real?"

"Jesi li ti stvaran?"

Because she can't believe I can't eat this penguin.

Jer nije mogla vjerovati da ja ne jedem pingvine.

Because in her world, you're either breeding or you're eating --

Jer u njenom svijetu, ili se razmnožavaš ili jedeš --

and I'm not breeding, so ...

a ja se nisam razmnožavao.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And then that wasn't enough; she started to flip penguins onto my head.

I to nije bilo dovoljno; ona je započela bacati pingvine na moju glavu.

She was trying to force-feed me. She's pushing me around.

Pokušala me prisilno nahraniti. Gurala me okolo.

She's trying to force-feed my camera,

Pokušala je prisilno nahraniti moju kameru,

which is every photographer's dream.

što je san svakog fotografa.

And she would get frustrated; she'd blow bubbles in my face.

I postala bi toliko frustrirana, da bi mi puhala mjehuriće u lice.

She would, I think, let me know that I was going to starve.

Ona je, mislim, pokušavala dati mi do znanja da ću izgladnjeti.

But yet she didn't stop.

Ali nije stajala.

She would not stop trying to feed me penguins.

Nije stala pokušavati nahraniti me s pingvinima.

And on the last day with this female

I zadnjeg dana s tom ženkom

where I thought I had pushed her too far,

kada sam pomislio da sam je gurnuo predaleko,

I got nervous because she came up to me,

postao sam nervozan, jer je došla do mene,

she rolled over on her back,

okrenula se na leđa,

and she did this deep, guttural jackhammer sound, this gok-gok-gok-gok.

i napravila taj duboki, grleni snažni zvuk, taj gokgokgokgok.

And I thought, she's about to bite.

I onda sam pomislio da će me ugristi.

She's about to let me know she's too frustrated with me.

Pokazati će mi da sam je previše iznervirao.

What had happened was another seal had snuck in behind me,

Ono što se dogodilo jest da se drugi tuljan prišuljao iza mene,

and she did that to threat display.

i ona je to napravila kako bi ga otjerala.

She chased that big seal away, went and got its penguin

Ona je otjerala tog velikog tuljana, otišla i uzela tog pingvina

and brought it to me.

i donijela ga meni.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

That wasn't the only seal I got in the water with.

To nije bio jedini tuljan s kojim sam bio u vodi.

I got in the water with 30 other leopard seals,

Bio sam u vodi s 30 drugih morskih leoparda,

and I never once had a scary encounter.

i niti jednom nisam doživio zastrašujući susret.

They are the most remarkable animals I've ever worked with,

Oni su najnevjerojatnije životinje s kojima sam ikada radio,

and the same with polar bears.

i isto vrijedi za polarne medvjede.

And just like the polar bears,

I jednako kao polarni medvjedi,

these animals depend on an icy environment.

ove životinje ovise o ledenom okolišu.

I get emotional. Sorry.

Postajem emocionalan. Oprostite.

It's a story that lives deep in my heart,

To je priča koja živi duboko u mom srcu,

and I'm proud to share this with you.

i ponosan sam što je mogu podijeliti s vama.

And I'm so passionate about it.

I jako sam strastven zbog nje.

Anybody want to come with me to Antarctica or the Arctic, I'll take you; let's go.

Svi koji želite poći s menom na Antartiku ili Artiku, povesti ću vas, idemo.

We've got to get the story out now. Thank you very much.

Moramo ispričati priču svijetu. Puno vam hvala.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thank you. Thanks very much.

Hvala vam. Hvala vam puno.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)