Tales of ice-bound wonderlands | Paul Nicklen

Translator: Irma Amelia Reviewer: Antonius Yudi Sendjaja

My journey to become a polar specialist,

Perjalanan saya menjadi spesialis kutub,

photographing, specializing in the polar regions,

memotret, khususnya di wilayah kutub,

began when I was four years old,

dimulai saat saya berumur empat tahun,

when my family moved from southern Canada

ketika keluarga saya pindah dari Kanada Selatan

to Northern Baffin Island, up by Greenland.

ke Pulau Baffin Utara, di atas Greenland.

There we lived with the Inuit

Di sana kami tinggal bersama orang Inuit.

in the tiny Inuit community of 200 Inuit people,

Dalam komunitas kecil orang Inuit yang terdiri dari 200 orang,

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

kami adalah salah satu dari tiga keluarga non-Inuit.

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

Di dalam komunitas ini, kami tidak punya televisi;

we didn't have computers, obviously, radio.

kami tentu saja tidak punya komputer dan radio.

We didn't even have a telephone.

Kami bahkan tidak punya telepon.

All of my time was spent outside

Seluruh waktu saya dihabiskan di luar rumah

with the Inuit, playing.

bermain dengan orang Inuit.

The snow and the ice were my sandbox,

Salju dan es adalah mainan saya,

and the Inuit were my teachers.

dan orang Inuit adalah guru saya.

And that's where I became

Di sanalah saya menjadi

truly obsessed with this polar realm.

terobsesi dengan dunia kutub.

And I knew someday that I was going to do something

Saya tahu suatu hari saya akan melakukan sesuatu

that had to do with trying to share news about it

yang ada hubungannya dengan mencoba menyebarkan berita

and protect it.

dan melindunginya.

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

Saya ingin berbagi dengan anda, dua menit saja,

some images, a cross-section of my work,

beberapa foto, hasil karya saya,

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

diiringi musik indah dari Brandi Carlile, "Have You Ever." ("Apa kau pernah")

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

Saya tidak tahu mengapa National Geographic melakukan hal yang belum pernah mereka lakukan sebelumnya,

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

tapi mereka mengijinkan saya untuk memperlihatkan sedikit foto

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

dari kumpulan yang baru saya selesaikan dan belum pernah dipublikasikan.

National Geographic doesn't do this,

Tidak biasanya National Geographic melakukan ini.

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

Jadi saya sangat senang bisa membagikannya dengan Anda.

And what these images are --

Foto-foto ini mengenai --

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

Anda akan melihat di awal slide -- hanya ada empat foto --

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

mengenai beruang kecil yang hidup di hutan tropis Great Bear.

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

Beruang berbulu putih tapi bukan beruang kutub.

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

Sejenis beruang ruh atau beruang Kermode.

There are only 200 of these bears left.

Sekarang beruang jenis ini hanya tersisa 200 ekor.

They're more rare than the panda bear.

Lebih langka dibandingkan beruang panda.

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

Saya duduk di pinggir sungai selama dua bulan dan tidak melihat satupun.

I thought, my career's over.

Saya kira karir saya sudah berakhir.

I proposed this stupid story to National Geographic.

Saya menawarkan cerita bodoh ini ke National Geographic.

What in the heck was I thinking?

Pikiran saya ke mana saat itu?

So I had two months to sit there

Jadi saya duduk di sana selama dua bulan

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

dan memikirkan berbagai cara tentang apa yang akan saya lakukan selanjutnya

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

setelah menjadi fotografer, karena mereka akan memecat saya.

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

Karena National Geographic adalah majalah; mereka selalu mengingatkan saya,

they publish pictures, not excuses.

mereka mempublikasikan foto bukan alasan.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

And after two months of sitting there --

Setelah dua bulan duduk di sana --

one day, thinking that it was all over,

suatu hari, saya kira semuanya sudah berakhir,

this incredible big white male came down,

seekor beruang jantan putih besar yang luar biasa ini muncul,

right beside me, three feet away from me,

tepat di sebelah saya, tiga kaki dari saya,

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

dia datang mengambil ikan dan pergi ke hutan serta memakannya.

And then I spent the entire day living my childhood dream

Lalu saya menghabiskan waktu seharian untuk mewujudkan impian saya,

of walking around with this bear through the forest.

berjalan berkeliling hutan bersama beruang ini.

He went through this old-growth forest

Dia berjalan-jalan di hutan tua ini

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

dan duduk di samping pohon tua berumur 400 tahun dan tertidur.

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

Dan saya juga tidur tiga kaki darinya,

just in the forest, and photograph him.

hanya di hutan ini, dan memotretnya.

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

Saya sangat bersemangat menunjukkan foto-foto ini untuk anda

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

dan kumpulan pekerjaan yang telah saya lakukan di wilayah kutub.

Please enjoy.

Selamat menikmati.

(Music)

(Musik)

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

Brandi Carlile: ♫ Apa kau pernah berjalan sendirian di hutan? ♫

♫ And everything there feels just as it should ♫

♫ Dan semuanya tampak sebagaimana mestinya ♫

♫ You're part of the life there ♫

♫ Kau adalah bagian kehidupan di sana ♫

♫ You're part of something good ♫

♫ Kau adalah bagian dari sesuatu yang indah ♫

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

♫ Jika kau pernah berjalan sendirian di hutan ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

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

♫ Jika kau pernah berjalan sendirian di hutan ♫

♫ Have you ever stared into a starry sky? ♫

♫ Apa kau pernah menatap langit berbintang? ♫

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

♫ Sambil berbaring, kau bertanya mengapa ♫

♫ What's the purpose? ♫

♫ Apa gunanya? ♫

♫ I wonder, who am I? ♫

♫ Saya ingin tahu, siapa saya? ♫

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

♫ Jika kau pernah menatap langit berbintang ♫

♫ 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? ♫

♫ Apa kau pernah menatap langit berbintang? ♫

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

♫ Apa kau pernah berjalan di tengah salju? ♫

♫ Tried to get back where you were before ♫

♫ Mencoba kembali ke tempat asalmu ♫

♫ You always end up ♫

♫ Akhirnya kau selalu ♫

♫ Not knowing where to go ♫

♫ Tidak tahu harus ke mana ♫

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

♫ Jika kau pernah berjalan di tengah salju ♫

♫ 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 ♫

♫ Jika kau pernah berjalan kau akan tahu ♫

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)

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

Paul Nicklen: Terima kasih banyak. Acaranya belum selesai.

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

Waktu saya terus berjalan. Mari kita lanjutkan.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Terima kasih banyak. Saya menghargainya.

We're inundated with news all the time

Sepanjang waktu kita dibanjiri dengan berita

that the sea ice is disappearing

bahwa es laut mulai lenyap

and it's at its lowest level.

dan sedang berada di tingkat terendah.

And in fact, scientists were originally saying

Kenyataannya, ilmuwan mengatakan

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

es laut akan menghilang dalam 100 tahun, lalu mereka berkata 50 tahun.

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

Sekarang mereka berkata es laut di Arktik,

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

pada musim panas akan hilang dalam 4 sampai 10 tahun mendatang.

And what does that mean?

Apa arti dari semua itu?

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

Setelah beberapa lama membaca di dalam berita, ini hanyalah menjadi berita.

You glaze over with it.

Anda mengacuhkan itu.

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

Apa yang saya coba lakukan dalam pekerjaan saya adalah mengedepankan hal ini.

And I want people to understand and get the concept

Saya ingin orang-orang mengerti dan menangkap konsepnya

that, if we lose ice,

bahwa, apabila kita kehilangan es,

we stand to lose an entire ecosystem.

kita berhadapan dengan kehilangan seluruh ekosistem.

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

Perkiraannya adalah bahwa kita bisa kehilangan beruang kutub, mereka bisa punah,

in the next 50 to 100 years.

dalam 50 hingga 100 tahun mendatang

And there's no better, sexier,

Tidak ada spesies megafauna karismatik yang lebih baik,

more beautiful, charismatic megafauna species

lebih seksi, lebih cantik,

for me to hang my campaign on.

bagi saya untuk mempromosikan kampanye saya.

Polar bears are amazing hunters.

Beruang kutub adalah pemburu hebat.

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

Saya duduk dengan seekor beruang di tepi laut.

There was no ice around.

Tidak ada es di sekitarnya.

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

tapi sebuah lapisan es muncul dan seekor anjing laut naik ke atasnya.

And this bear swam out to that seal --

Dan beruang ini berenang ke anjing laut itu --

800 lb. bearded seal --

anjing laut berjenggot seberat 800 pon --

grabbed it, swam back and ate it.

meraihnya, berenang kembali dan memakannya.

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

Dia kekenyangan, dia sangat senang dan menjadi gemuk karena memakan anjing laut ini,

that, as I approached him --

ketika saya mendekatinya --

about 20 feet away -- to get this picture,

dalam jarak sekitar 20 kaki -- untuk memotretnya,

his only defense was to keep eating more seal.

dia hanya bertahan dengan terus memakan anjing laut.

And as he ate, he was so full --

Dan ketika dia makan, dia sangat kekenyangan --

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

dia mungkin memakan sekitar 200 pon daging di perutnya -

and as he ate inside one side of his mouth,

dan ketika dia memakan dengan menggunakan satu sisi mulutnya,

he was regurgitating out the other side of his mouth.

dia memuntahkan dengan sisi mulutnya yang lain.

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

Jadi selama beruang-beruang ini memiliki es maka mereka akan bertahan,

but it's the ice that's disappearing.

tetapi es ini mulai mencair.

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

Kami menemukan semakin banyak beruang mati di Arktik.

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

Saat saya menjadi ahli biologi dan meneliti beruang kutub 20 tahun lalu,

we never found dead bears.

kami tidak pernah menemukan beruang mati.

And in the last four or five years,

Dan dalam empat atau lima tahun terakhir,

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

kami menemukan beruang mati di mana-mana.

We're seeing them in the Beaufort Sea,

Kami menemukannya di Laut Beaufort,

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

mengambang di laut lepas di mana es telah mencair.

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

Saya menemukan dua di Norwegia tahun lalu di atas permukaan es.

These bears are already showing signs

Beruang-beruang ini memperlihatkan tanda-tanda

of the stress of disappearing ice.

stres karena es yang menghilang.

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

Inilah seekor induk beruang dengan anaknya yang berumur dua tahun

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

sedang berjalanan seratus mil di lepas pantai entah di mana,

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

dan mereka menaiki lapisan es besar ini,

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

yang bagus bagi mereka, mereka aman di sini.

They're not going to die of hypothermia.

Mereka tidak akan mati karena hipotermia.

They're going to get to land.

Mereka akan sampai ke daratan.

But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic

Tapi sayangnya, 95 persen lapisan es di Kutub Utara

are also receding right now

juga menyurut sekarang

to the point that the ice is ending up on land

sampai ke tahap di mana es terdampar ke darat

and not injecting any ice back into the ecosystem.

dan tidak menghasilkan es baru kembali ke ekosistem.

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

Anjing laut bercincin ini adalah makanan favorit di Arktik.

These little, fat dumplings,

Hewan kecil, gemuk,

150-pound bundles of blubber

150 pon kumpulan lemak ini

are the mainstay of the polar bear.

adalah pendukung utama keberadaan beruang kutub.

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

Dan mereka tidak seperti anjing laut pelabuhan yang ada di sini.

These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle

Anjing laut bercincin ini juga menjalani seluruh siklus hidup

associated and connected to sea ice.

terkait dan terhubung dengan es laut.

They give birth inside the ice,

Mereka melahirkan di dalam es,

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

dan mereka memakan ikan kod Arktik yang hidup di bawah es.

And here's a picture of sick ice.

Dan inilah foto es yang sakit.

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

Ini adalah potongan es berumur 12 tahun.

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

Apa yang tidak diperkirakan para ilmuwan adalah ketika es ini mencair,

these big pockets of black water are forming

air gelap ini terbentuk

and they're grabbing the sun's energy

dan menyerap energi matahari

and accelerating the melting process.

dan mempercepat proses pencairan.

And here we are diving in the Beaufort Sea.

Di sini kami menyelam di Laut Beaufort.

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

Jarak pandang 600 kaki; kami berada di garis aman;

the ice is moving all over the place.

es bergerak ke mana-mana.

I wish I could spend half an hour telling you

Seandainya saja saya punya setengah jam untuk bercerita

about how we almost died on this dive.

mengenai bagaimana kami hampir mati di penyelaman ini.

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

Tapi hal yang terpenting dari foto ini adalah kumpulan potongan es bertahun-tahun itu,

that big chunk of ice up in the corner.

potongan es besar di pojok atas sana.

In that one single piece of ice,

Pada satu bagian es itu,

you have 300 species of microorganisms.

ada 300 spesies mikroorganisme.

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

Di musim semi, ketika matahari kembali menyinari es,

it forms the phytoplankton, grows under that ice,

matahari membentuk fitoplankton yang tumbuh di bawah es itu

and then you get bigger sheets of seaweed,

kemudian Anda akan menemukan banyak rumput laut,

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

lalu ada zoo plankton yang menghidupi kehidupan mereka semua.

So really what the ice does

Jadi es bertindak

is it acts like a garden.

seperti sebuah taman.

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

Es seperti tanah pada sebuah taman. Itu adalah taman terbalik.

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

Kehilangan es seperti kehilangan tanah dalam tanaman.

Here's me in my office.

Inilah saya di kantor saya.

I hope you appreciate yours.

Saya harap Anda menghargai kantor Anda.

This is after an hour under the ice.

Ini setelah satu jam berada di bawah es.

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

Saya tidak bisa merasakan bibir saya; wajah saya kaku;

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

saya tidak bisa merasakan tangan dan kaki saya.

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

Saya naik, dan apa yang saya ingin lakukan hanyalah keluar dari air.

After an hour in these conditions,

Setelah satu jam dalam kondisi seperti ini,

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

sangat ekstrim sehingga ketika saya turun,

almost every dive I vomit into my regulator

hampir setiap menyelam saya muntah lewat regulator,

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

karena tubuh saya tidak tahan terhadap tekanan dingin di kepala saya.

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

Jadi saya sangat senang ketika penyelaman berakhir.

I get to hand my camera to my assistant,

Saya harus menyerahkan kamera ke asisten saya,

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

dan saya melihatnya dan berkata, "Woo. Woo. Woo."

Which means, "Take my camera."

Artinya, "Ambil kamera saya."

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

Dia kira saya berkata, "Potret saya."

So we had this little communication breakdown.

Jadi kami mengalami sedikit gangguan komunikasi.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

But it's worth it.

Tapi itu cukup sepadan.

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

Saya akan memperlihatkan foto paus beluga, paus kepala busur,

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

paus tanduk, beruang kutub, dan anjing laut tutul hari ini,

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

tapi foto ini lebih berarti bagi saya daripada foto lain yang saya pernah ambil.

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

Saya turun ke lubang es ini, melalui lubang yang telah Anda lihat,

and I looked up under the underside of the ice,

dan saya melihat ke bagian bawah dari es,

and I was dizzy; I thought I had vertigo.

dan saya pusing; saya kira saya mengalami vertigo.

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

Saya menjadi sangat gugup -- tidak ada tali, tidak ada batas pengaman,

the whole world is moving around me --

seluruh dunia bergerak di sekitar saya --

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

dan saya pikir, "Saya dalam masalah."

But what happened is that the entire underside

Tetapi apa yang terjadi adalah seluruh bagian bawah es

was full of these billions of amphipods and copepods

dipenuhi milyaran amfipoda dan copepoda

moving around and feeding on the underside of the ice,

bergerak-gerak dan makan di bagian bawah es,

giving birth and living out their entire life cycle.

melahirkan dan hidup pada seluruh siklus kehidupan mereka.

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

Ini adalah dasar dari seluruh rantai makanan di Arktik, di sini.

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

Dan ketika produktivitas di dalam es menurun,

the productivity in copepods go down.

produktivitas dari copepoda juga menurun.

This is a bowhead whale.

Inilah paus kepala busur.

Supposedly, science is stating

Konon, ilmu pengetahuan menyatakan

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

ini adalah hewan tertua yang hidup di bumi sekarang.

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

Paus ini kemungkinan berumur 250 tahun.

This whale could have been born

Paus ini bisa jadi lahir

around the start of the Industrial Revolution.

sekitar awal revolusi industri.

It could have survived 150 years of whaling.

Dia mungkin telah bertahan selama 150 tahun dari penangkapan ikan paus.

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

Ancaman terbesar sekarang adalah hilangnya es di Utara

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

karena kehidupan yang kita jalani di Selatan.

Narwhals, these majestic narwhals

Paus tanduk yang ajaib ini

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

dengan gading sepanjang 8 kaki, tidak seharusnya ada di sini;

they could be out on the open water.

mereka seharusnya ada di perairan terbuka.

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

Tapi mereka memaksakan diri untuk masuk ke lubang es kecil ini

where they can breathe, catch a breath,

di mana mereka bisa bernafas, mengambil nafas,

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

karena tepat di bawah es itu ada kerumunan ikan kod.

And the cod are there

Ikan kod ada di sana

because they are feeding on all the copepods and amphipods.

karena mereka memakan semua copepoda dan amfipoda.

Alright, my favorite part.

Baiklah, bagian favorit saya.

When I'm on my deathbed,

Saat saya sekarat nanti,

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

saya akan mengingat satu cerita lebih baik dibandingkan cerita lain.

Even though that spirit bear moment was powerful,

Meskipun semangat dari beruang itu sangat kuat,

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

saya kira saya tidak akan memiliki pengalaman lain

like I did with these leopard seals.

seperti yang saya miliki dengan anjing laut tutul ini.

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

Anjing laut tutul sejak jaman Shackleton telah memiliki reputasi buruk.

They've got that wryly smile on their mouth.

Mereka punya senyum kecut di mulut mereka.

They've got those black sinister eyes

Mereka punya mata hitam menyeramkan

and those spots on their body.

dan bintik-bintik pada tubuh mereka.

They look positively prehistoric and a bit scary.

Mereka terlihat seperti hewan prasejarah dan sedikit menakutkan.

And tragically in [2003],

Di tahun 2004 secara tragis,

a scientist was taken down and drowned,

seorang ilmuwan ditarik ke bawah dan tenggelam,

and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

dan dia dimakan oleh seekor anjing laut tutul.

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

Orang-orang mengatakan, "Kami tahu mereka kejam. Kami sudah tahu."

And so people love to form their opinions.

Jadi orang-orang senang membentuk opini mereka.

And that's when I got a story idea:

Saat itu saya mendapat ide cerita:

I want to go to Antarctica,

saya ingin ke Antartika,

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

masuk ke air dengan sebanyak mungkin anjing laut tutul yang saya bisa

and give them a fair shake --

dan memperlakukan mereka secara adil --

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

mencari tahu apakah mereka memang kejam atau ada kesalahpahaman.

So this is that story.

Jadi beginilah ceritanya.

Oh, and they also happen to eat Happy Feet.

Oh, dan mereka juga memakan happy feet (penguin).

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

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

Sebagai spesies, sebagai manusia, kita beranggapan penguin itu lucu,

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

karena itu anjing laut tutul yang memakannya menjadi jelek dan jahat.

It doesn't work that way.

Tidak seperti itu ceritanya.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute,

Penguin tidak tahu kalau dia lucu.

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

Dan anjing laut tutul tidak tahu kalau dia besar dan seperti monster.

This is just the food chain unfolding.

Ini hanya siklus rantai makanan.

They're also big.

Mereka juga besar.

They're not these little harbor seals.

Mereka bukan anjing laut pelabuhan yang kecil.

They are 12 ft. long, a thousand pounds.

Panjang mereka 12 kaki, dengan berat ribuan pon.

And they're also curiously aggressive.

Mereka juga sangat ingin tahu dan agresif.

You get 12 tourists packed into a Zodiac,

Ada 12 turis naik ke perahu karet Zodiac,

floating in these icy waters,

yang mengambang di air dingin,

and a leopard seal comes up and bites the pontoon.

dan seekor anjing laut tutul naik dan menggigit ponton.

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

Perahu mulai tenggelam, mereka berebutan kembali ke kapal

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

sampai di rumah dan menceritakan kisah saat mereka diserang.

All the leopard seal was doing --

Yang dilakukan anjing laut tutul itu --

it's just biting a balloon.

hanyalah menggigit balon.

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

Dia melihat balon besar di permukaan -- dia tidak punya tangan --

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

dia hanya ingin menggigit sedikit, balon meletus, lalu dia pergi.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

So after five days of crossing the Drake Passage --

Jadi setelah lima hari melintasi Selat Drake --

isn't that beautiful --

indah bukan?

after five days of crossing the Drake Passage,

Setelah lima hari melintasi Selat Drake --

we have finally arrived at Antarctica.

kami akhirnya tiba di Antartika.

I'm with my Swedish assistant and guide.

Saya bersama asisten Swedia saya yang sekaligus pemandu.

His name is Goran Ehlme from Sweden -- Goran.

Namanya Goran Ehlme dari Swedia.

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

Dia memiliki banyak pengalaman dengan anjing laut tutul yang belum pernah saya lihat.

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

Jadi kami sampai di teluk dengan perahu kecil Zodiac,

and there's this monstrous leopard seal.

dan ada anjing laut tutul besar ini.

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

Goran bahkan berkata, "Besar sekali anjing laut tutul itu ya."

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

And this seal is taking this penguin by the head,

Anjing laut tutul ini menerkam kepala penguin,

and it's flipping it back and forth.

dan memutarnya.

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

Dia mencoba mencabik-cabik penguin itu,

so it can eat the meat off the bones,

sehingga dia bisa melepaskan daging dari tulangnya

and then it goes off and gets another one.

lalu pergi dan menerkam penguin lain.

And so this leopard seal grabbed another penguin,

Jadi anjing laut tutul ini menangkap penguin lain,

came under the boat, the Zodiac,

masuk ke bawah perahu Zodiac,

starting hitting the hull of the boat.

mulai memukul lambung perahu.

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

Kami mencoba untuk tidak jatuh ke dalam air.

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

Kami duduk lalu Goran mengatakan,

"This is a good seal, ya.

"Ini anjing laut tutul yang sangat bagus ya.

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

Sekarang saatnya kamu masuk ke dalam air."

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

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

Saya menatap Goran dan berkata, "Lupakan saja."

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

Tapi sepertinya saya menggunakan kata berbeda yang diawali huruf F.

But he was right.

Tetapi dia benar.

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

Dia mengancam saya, "Inilah alasan kita ada di sini.

And you purposed this stupid story to National Geographic.

Dan kau menawarkan cerita bodoh ini ke National Geographic.

And now you've got to deliver.

Sekarang kau harus melakukannya.

And you can't publish excuses."

Kau tidak bisa mempublikasikan alasan."

So I had such dry mouth --

Mulut saya kering --

probably not as bad as now --

mungkin tidak seburuk sekarang --

but I had such, such dry mouth.

tapi saat itu mulut saya sangat kering.

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

Kaki saya gemetaran. Saya tidak bisa merasakannya.

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

Saya memasangi kaki katak. Saya hampir tidak bisa menggerakkan bibir saya.

I put my snorkel in my mouth,

saya memasang snorkel di mulut saya,

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

dan saya turun dari Zodiac lalu masuk ke dalam air.

And this was the first thing she did.

Inilah yang pertama kali dilakukan anjing laut tutul itu.

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

Dia mendatangi saya dengan cepat, menelan seluruh kamera saya -

and her teeth are up here and down here --

dan giginya ada di atas sini dan di bawah sini --

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

tapi Goran memberikan nasihat hebat ini sebelum saya masuk air.

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

Dia berkata, "Kalau kamu ketakutan, tutup mata, dan dia akan pergi."

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

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

Jadi itulah hal yang harus saya atasi saat itu.

But I just started to shoot these pictures.

Dan saya mulai mengambil foto-foto ini.

So she did this threat display for a few minutes,

Jadi dia terlihat mengancam selama beberapa menit,

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

dan kemudian hal yang paling menakjubkan terjadi -- dia benar-benar tenang.

She went off, she got a penguin.

Dia pergi, menangkap seekor penguin.

She stopped about 10 feet away from me,

Dia berhenti sekitar 10 meter dari saya,

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

dan dia terdiam dengan penguin ini, penguin itu mengepak, dan dia melepaskannya.

The penguin swims toward me, takes off.

Penguin itu berenang ke arah saya, pergi menjauh.

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

Dia menangkap satu lagi lalu mengulanginya terus-menerus.

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

Saya sadar bahwa dia berusaha untuk memberi saya seekor penguin.

Why else would she release these penguins at me?

Untuk apa lagi dia melepaskan penguin ini ke arah saya?

And after she did this four or five times,

Setelah empat atau lima kali melakukannya,

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

dia berenang mendekati saya dengan tatapan kecewa di wajahnya.

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

Anda tidak ingin terlalu antropomorfik, tapi saya bersumpah bahwa dia menatap saya

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

seperti, "Pemangsa tidak berguna ini akan kelaparan di laut saya."

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins,

Saat sadar bahwa saya tidak bisa menangkap penguin yang berenang,

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

dia mulai membawa penguin lain dengan pelan-pelan ke arah saya,

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

berayun-ayun seperti ini, dan dia melepaskannya.

This didn't work.

Tetap tidak berhasil.

I was laughing so hard and so emotional

Saya tertawa keras dan begitu emosional

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

sehingga masker saya kebanjiran, karena saya menangis di bawah air,

just because it was so amazing.

hanya karena saat itu sangat mengagumkan.

And so that didn't work.

Jadi cara itu tidak berhasil.

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

Dia menangkap penguin lain lagi dan melakukan seperti gerakan balet seksi

sliding down this iceberg like this. (Laughter)

meluncur seperti ini ke bawah gunung es ini.

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

Dia akan membawa dan menawarkannya kepada saya.

This went on for four days.

Ini berlangsung selama empat hari.

This just didn't happen a couple of times.

Ini tidak hanya terjadi beberapa kali.

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

Lalu dia menyadari saya tidak bisa menangkap penguin yang masih hidup,

so she brought me dead penguins.

jadi dia membawa saya penguin mati.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

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

Ada empat atau lima penguin yang mengambang di sekitar kepala saya,

and I'm just sitting there shooting away.

dan saya hanya diam di sana memotret.

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

Dia sering berhenti dan memberikan tatapan kecewa di wajahnya

like, "Are you for real?"

seperti, "Yang benar saja?"

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

Karena dia tidak percaya saya tidak bisa memakan penguin.

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

Karena di dunianya, Anda hanya makan dan berkembang biak --

and I'm not breeding, so ...

dan saya tidak berkembang biak.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

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

Itu saja belum cukup; dia mulai memutar penguin di atas kepala saya.

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

Dia mencoba untuk memaksa memberi makan saya. Terus-menerus.

She's trying to force-feed my camera,

Dia mencoba untuk memaksa memberi makan kamera saya,

which is every photographer's dream.

yang menjadi impian setiap fotografer.

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

Dia menjadi frustasi, dia meniupkan gelembung ke muka saya.

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

Menurut saya, dia mencoba memberi tahu bahwa saya akan kelaparan.

But yet she didn't stop.

Tapi dia belum berhenti.

She would not stop trying to feed me penguins.

Dia tidak akan berhenti memberi penguin untuk saya makan.

And on the last day with this female

Pada hari terakhir saya bersamanya,

where I thought I had pushed her too far,

saya kira saya telah melampaui batas kesabarannya,

I got nervous because she came up to me,

saya menjadi gugup karena dia mendatangi saya,

she rolled over on her back,

dia berguling,

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

dan dia mengeluarkan suara berat ini, suara konyol dan parau ini, gokgokgokgok.

And I thought, she's about to bite.

Saya kira dia akan menerkam.

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

Dia mencoba memberitahu saya bahwa dia frustasi dengan saya.

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

Apa yang terjadi adalah ada anjing laut lain di belakang saya,

and she did that to threat display.

dia melakukannya untuk mengancam.

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

Dia mengejar anjing laut besar itu, pergi dan menangkap penguin

and brought it to me.

dan membawakannya untuk saya.

(Laughter)

(Tawa)

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

Itu bukan satu-satunya anjing laut tutul yang bersama saya di dalam air.

I got in the water with 30 other leopard seals,

Saya masuk ke air bersama 30 anjing tutul laut yang lain,

and I never once had a scary encounter.

dan saya belum pernah mengalami pertemuan menakutkan.

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

Mereka adalah hewan paling luar biasa yang pernah bekerja sama dengan saya,

and the same with polar bears.

dan sama dengan beruang kutub.

And just like the polar bears,

Sama seperti beruang kutub,

these animals depend on an icy environment.

hewan-hewan ini bergantung pada lingkungan es.

I get emotional. Sorry.

Saya menjadi emosional. Maaf.

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

Cerita ini bersemayam di hati saya,

and I'm proud to share this with you.

dan saya bangga membagikan hal ini kepada Anda.

And I'm so passionate about it.

Dan saya sangat bergairah tentang hal itu.

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

Siapa saja yang ingin datang dengan saya ke Antartika atau Arktik. Saya akan membawa anda, ayo kita pergi.

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

Kita harus menyebarkan cerita ini sekarang, Terima kasih banyak.

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)

Thank you.

Terima kasih.

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)

Thank you.

Terima kasih.

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)

Thank you. Thanks very much.

Terima kasih. Terima kasih banyak.

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)

Thank you.

Terima kasih.

(Applause)

(Tepuk tangan)