Tales of ice-bound wonderlands | Paul Nicklen

Prevodilac: Sandra Gojic Lektor: Ana Zivanovic-Nenadovic

My journey to become a polar specialist,

Moje putovanje ka pozivu polarnog specijaliste,

photographing, specializing in the polar regions,

fotografisanje, specijalizovano 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 porodica preselila iz Južne Kanade

to Northern Baffin Island, up by Greenland.

na Severno Bafin ostrvo, gore na Grenlandu.

There we lived with the Inuit

Tamo smo živeli sa Inuitima.

in the tiny Inuit community of 200 Inuit people,

U maloj zajednici Inuita od 200 ljudi,

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

mi smo bili jedna od tri ne Inuit porodice.

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

I u ovoj zajednici nismo imali televiziju;

we didn't have computers, obviously, radio.

nismo imali kompjutere, očigledno ni radio.

We didn't even have a telephone.

Nismo čak imali ni telefon.

All of my time was spent outside

Svo svoje vreme sam provodio napolju,

with the Inuit, playing.

sa Inuitima, igrajući se.

The snow and the ice were my sandbox,

Sneg i led su bili moja kutija sa peskom,

and the Inuit were my teachers.

a Inuiti su bili moji učitelji.

And that's where I became

I tu sam postao potpuno

truly obsessed with this polar realm.

opsednut ovom polarnom stvarnošću.

And I knew someday that I was going to do something

I znao sam da ću jednog dana uraditi nešto

that had to do with trying to share news about it

što će biti pokušaj da podelim vesti o tome

and protect it.

i da je zaštitim.

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

Voleo bih da podelim sa vama, na samo dva minuta,

some images, a cross-section of my work,

neke slike, presek moga rada,

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

uz prelepu muziku Brendi Karlile, "Da li si ikada."

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

Ne znam zašto je Nacionalna Geografija uradila ovo, jer nisu nikada ranije,

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

ali dozvoljavaju mi da pokažem nekoliko slika

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

sa naslovnih strana koje su završene ali nisu još objavljene.

National Geographic doesn't do this,

Nacionalna Geografija ne radi ovo.

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

I veoma sam uzbuđen što mogu ovo podeliti sa vama.

And what these images are --

A ove slike -

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

videćete ih na početku prezentacije - ima samo oko četiri fotografije -

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

radi se o malom medvedu koji živi u Great Bear Rainforest.

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

Čisto je beo, ali nije polarni medved.

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

U pitanju je "spirit" medved, ili Kermode medved.

There are only 200 of these bears left.

Ostalo je samo oko 200 ovih medveda.

They're more rare than the panda bear.

Ugroženiji su od pandi.

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

Sedeo sam pored reke dva meseca, a da nisam video ni jednog.

I thought, my career's over.

Mislio sam, gotovo je sa mojom karijerom.

I proposed this stupid story to National Geographic.

Predložio sam ovu glupu priču Nacionalnoj Geografiji.

What in the heck was I thinking?

Šta sam zaboga mislio?

So I had two months to sit there

Dakle imao sam dva meseca da sedim

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

i smislim različite stvari koje ću raditi u svom sledećem životu,

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

kad završim sa fotografijom, jer će mi dati otkaz.

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

Jer Nacionalna Geografija je časopis; podsećaju nas sve vreme,

they publish pictures, not excuses.

da objavljuju fotografije, ne izgovore.

(Laughter)

( smeh )

And after two months of sitting there --

I posle dva meseca sedenja -

one day, thinking that it was all over,

jednog dana, misleći kako je sve gotovo,

this incredible big white male came down,

taj neverovatni veliki beli mužjak je sišao,

right beside me, three feet away from me,

tačno pored mene, udaljen jedan metar,

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

i sišao je i zgrabio ribu, otišao u šumu i pojeo je.

And then I spent the entire day living my childhood dream

I onda sam proveo ceo dan proživlajvajući svoj san iz detinjstva,

of walking around with this bear through the forest.

šetajući kroz šumu sa tim medvedom.

He went through this old-growth forest

Prošao je kroz deo sa starim stablima

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

i seo pored stabla starog 400 godina, i zaspao.

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

I ja sam mogao da spavam na samo metar od njega,

just in the forest, and photograph him.

tu u šumi i da ga fotografišem.

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

I veoma sam uzbuđen što vam mogu pokazati ove fotografije

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

i presek mog rada napravljenog u polarnim regijama.

Please enjoy.

Uživajte.

(Music)

( muzika )

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

Brendi Karlajl: ♫ Da li ste ikada šetali sami šumom? ♫

♫ And everything there feels just as it should ♫

♫ I tamo je sve baš onako kako treba ♫

♫ You're part of the life there ♫

♫ tamo ste deo života ♫

♫ You're part of something good ♫

♫ Tamo ste deo nečega dobrog ♫

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

♫ Ako ste ikada sami šetali šumom ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo ♫

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

♫ Ako ste ikada sami šetali šumom ♫

♫ Have you ever stared into a starry sky? ♫

♫ Da li ste ikada gledali u zvezdano nebo? ♫

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

♫ Ležeći na leđima, pitate se zašto ♫

♫ What's the purpose? ♫

♫ Šta je svrha? ♫

♫ I wonder, who am I? ♫

♫ Pitam se, ko sam ja? ♫

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

♫ Ako ste ikada posmatrali zvezdano nebo ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo ♫

♫ Aah, ah, aah ♫

♫ Aaa, ah, aaa ♫

♫ Ah, oh, oh, ah, ah, oh, oh ♫

♫ Ah, o, o, ah, ah, o, o ♫

♫ Have you ever stared into a starry sky? ♫

♫ Da li ste ikad gledali zvezdano nebo? ♫

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

♫ Da li ste ikada šetali po snegu? ♫

♫ Tried to get back where you were before ♫

♫ Probali da se vratite tamo gde ste bili ♫

♫ You always end up ♫

♫ Uvek završite ♫

♫ Not knowing where to go ♫

♫ Ne znajući kuda da idete ♫

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

♫ Ako ste ikada šetali po snegu ♫

♫ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♫

♫ Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo ♫

♫ Aah, ah, aah, ah, aah ♫

♫ Aaa, ah, aaa, ah, aaa ♫

♫ 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 ♫

♫ Da ste ikada šetali napolju, znali biste ♫

(Applause)

( aplauz )

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

Pol Niklen: Mnogo vam hvala. Nismo još gotovi.

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

Moj sat otkucava. Okej, da stanemo.

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Mnogo vam hvala. Cenim to.

We're inundated with news all the time

Preplavljeni smo vestima sve vreme

that the sea ice is disappearing

da morski led nestaje

and it's at its lowest level.

i na najnižem nivou je.

And in fact, scientists were originally saying

I zapravo, naučnici su na početku govorili

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

da će polarni led nestati u narednih sto godina, onda su rekli 50 godina.

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

A sada kažu da će polarni led na Arktiku,

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

u svojoj letnjoj površini, nestati u sledećih 4 do 10 godina.

And what does that mean?

I šta to znači?

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

Nakon nekog vremena u vestima, to postaje samo vest.

You glaze over with it.

Prelazite preko toga.

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

A ja svojim radom pokušavam da na to stavim lica.

And I want people to understand and get the concept

I želim da ljudi razumeju čitav koncept,

that, if we lose ice,

da, ako izgubimo led,

we stand to lose an entire ecosystem.

izgubićemo čitav ekosistem.

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

Pretpostavlja se da ćemo izgubiti polarne medvede, mogu izumreti,

in the next 50 to 100 years.

u sledećih 50 do 100 godina.

And there's no better, sexier,

I ne postoji bolja, privlačnija,

more beautiful, charismatic megafauna species

lepša, harizmatičnija vrsta velike faune na

for me to hang my campaign on.

kojoj mogu zasnovati kampanju.

Polar bears are amazing hunters.

Polarni medvedi su neverovatni lovci.

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

Ovo je medved sa kojim sam neko vreme sedeo na obalama.

There was no ice around.

Okolo nije bilo leda.

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

Ali glečer se ulegnuo i foka se popela na njega.

And this bear swam out to that seal --

I ovaj medved je plivao do nje -

800 lb. bearded seal --

bradate foka od 600 kilograma -

grabbed it, swam back and ate it.

zgrabio je, otplivao nazad i pojeo je.

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

I bio je toliko pun, bio je toliko srećan i toliko debeo od te foke,

that, as I approached him --

da je, dok sam mu prilazio -

about 20 feet away -- to get this picture,

na nekih 6 metara - da napravim ovu fotku,

his only defense was to keep eating more seal.

njegova jedina odbrana bila da nastavi da jede.

And as he ate, he was so full --

I dok je jeo, bio je toliko sit -

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

imao je otprilike 90 kg mesa u svom stomaku -

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 je povraćao.

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

Dakle, sve dok medvedi imaju bar malo leda, preživeće,

but it's the ice that's disappearing.

ali led nestaje.

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

Nalazimo sve više mrtvih medveda na Arktiku.

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

Kada sam radio sa polarnim medvedima kao biolog pre 20 godina,

we never found dead bears.

nikada nismo nalazili mrtve medvede.

And in the last four or five years,

A u poslednje četiri ili pet godina,

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

nalazimo mrtve medvede svuda naokolo.

We're seeing them in the Beaufort Sea,

VIđamo ih u Boforovom moru,

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

kako plutaju na otvorenom okeanu gde se led otopio.

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

Našao sam par u Norveškoj prošle godine. Viđamo ih na ledu.

These bears are already showing signs

Ovi medvedi već pokazuju znake

of the stress of disappearing ice.

stresa zbog nestajanja leda.

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

Evo majke sa svojim dvogodišnjim mladuncem,

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

kako putuju brodom stotine kilometara od obale u sred ničega,

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

i voze se na ovom velikom parčetu glečerskog leda,

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

što je za njih dobro; sigurni su u ovom trenutku.

They're not going to die of hypothermia.

Neće umreti od hipotermije.

They're going to get to land.

Stići će do obale.

But unfortunately, 95 percent of the glaciers in the Arctic

Ali nažalost, 95 odsto glečera u Arktiku

are also receding right now

se upravo smanjuje

to the point that the ice is ending up on land

do tačke gde led završava na obali

and not injecting any ice back into the ecosystem.

i ne vraća ni malo leda nazad u ekosistem.

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

Ove foke, su zalihe sala na Arktiku,

These little, fat dumplings,

Ove male knedle masti,

150-pound bundles of blubber

gomila masti od 70kg

are the mainstay of the polar bear.

jesu oslonac polarnim medvedima

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

One nisu poput uobičajenih foki koje imamo ovde.

These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle

I one ceo svoj životni ciklus provedu

associated and connected to sea ice.

vezane za morski led.

They give birth inside the ice,

One se porađaju u ledu,

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

i hrane se arktičkim bakalarom koji živi pod ledom.

And here's a picture of sick ice.

Evo slike bolesnog leda.

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

Ove je deo višegodišnjeg leda starog 12 godina.

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

A naučnici nisu predvideli da, kako se led topi,

these big pockets of black water are forming

formiraju se ovi veliki džepovi crne vode

and they're grabbing the sun's energy

koji grabe sunčevu energiju

and accelerating the melting process.

i ubrzavaju proces topljenja,

And here we are diving in the Beaufort Sea.

Ovde ronimo u Boforovom moru.

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

Na vidljivosti od 183 metara; na sigurnoj smo udaljenosti;

the ice is moving all over the place.

led se pomera na sve strane.

I wish I could spend half an hour telling you

Voleo bih da imam pola sata da vam govorim

about how we almost died on this dive.

o tome kako smo tu skoro poginuli.

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 jeste da imate deo višegodišnjeg leda,

that big chunk of ice up in the corner.

taj veliki komad leda u ćošku.

In that one single piece of ice,

U tom jednom komadu,

you have 300 species of microorganisms.

imate 300 vrsta mikoorganizama.

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

I u proleće, kada se sunce vrati ledu,

it forms the phytoplankton, grows under that ice,

formira, fitoplankton koji raste ispod leda,

and then you get bigger sheets of seaweed,

i onda dobijete veće slojeve morske trave,

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

i onda dobijete zooplankton koji se tu hrani.

So really what the ice does

Dakle, ono što radi led je,

is it acts like a garden.

ponaša se kao bašta.

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

Ponaša se kao zemlja u bašti. To je obrnuta bašta.

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

Gubitak tog leda je kao gubitak zemlja u bašti.

Here's me in my office.

Ovde sam ja u mojoj kancelariji.

I hope you appreciate yours.

Nadam se da cenite svoje.

This is after an hour under the ice.

Ovo je posle sat vremena pod ledom.

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

Ne osećam svoje usne, moje lice je smrznuto,

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

ne osećam svoje ruke, ne osećam svoja stopala.

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

Izronio sam i sve što sam hteo jeste da izađem iz te vode.

After an hour in these conditions,

Posle sat vremena u tim uslovima,

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

toliko je ekstremno da, kada zaronim,

almost every dive I vomit into my regulator

skoro svaki put povratim u svoj regulator,

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

jer moje telo ne može da se nosi sa stresom hladnoće na glavi.

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

I samo sam srećan što je ronjenje gotovo.

I get to hand my camera to my assistant,

Uspevam da dodam fotoapart svom asistentu,

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

i gledam ga, i kažem: " Voo. Voo. Voo."

Which means, "Take my camera."

Što znači: "Uzmi fotoaparat."

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

A on misli da kažem: "Fotografiši me."

So we had this little communication breakdown.

Pa smo imalu tu malu prepreku u komunikaciji.

(Laughter)

( smeh )

But it's worth it.

Ali vredi.

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

Pokazaću vam fotografije belih kitova, grenlandskih kitova,

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

i jednorogog kita, i polarnih medveda, i leopard foki,

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

ali ova fotografija ovde znači mi više od svih drugih ikada napravljenih.

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

Pao sam niz ovu rupu u ledu, kroz tu koju ste upravo videli,

and I looked up under the underside of the ice,

i pogledao sam ispod donje strane leda,

and I was dizzy; I thought I had vertigo.

bio sam ošamućen, mislio sam da imam vrtoglavicu.

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

Unervozio sam se - bez konopca, bez sigurne linije,

the whole world is moving around me --

ceo svet se kreće oko mene -

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

i pomislio sam: " U nevolji sam."

But what happened is that the entire underside

Ali šta se zapravo desilo je da je čitav donji deo leda

was full of these billions of amphipods and copepods

bio prepun biliona amfipoda i kopepoda

moving around and feeding on the underside of the ice,

koji su se kretali unaokolo i hranili se na donjoj strani leda,

giving birth and living out their entire life cycle.

rađajući život i živeći ceo svoj životni ciklus.

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

Ovo je osnova čitavog lanca ishrane u Arktiku, upravo ovde.

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

A kada ovde imate nisku produktivnost, u ledu,

the productivity in copepods go down.

produktivnost kopepoda opada.

This is a bowhead whale.

Ovo je grenlandski kit.

Supposedly, science is stating

Navodno, nauka kaže

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

da bi to moglo biti najstarije živo biće na planeti trenutno.

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

Upravo ovaj kit ovde bi mogao biti star preko 250 godina.

This whale could have been born

Mogao je biti rođen

around the start of the Industrial Revolution.

oko početka Industrijske revolucije.

It could have survived 150 years of whaling.

Mogao je preživeti 150 godina lova na kitove.

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

A trenutno mu je najveća pretnja gubitak leda na severu

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

zbog našeg života koji vodimo na jugu.

Narwhals, these majestic narwhals

Jednorogi kitovi, veličanstveni jednorogi kitovi

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

sa svojim dva i po metra dugim kljovama, ne moraju biti ovde;

they could be out on the open water.

mogli bi biti na otvorenom moru.

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

Ali teraju sebe da dođu u ove uzane male rupe u ledu

where they can breathe, catch a breath,

gde mogu da dišu, dođu do daha,

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

jer tik ispod tog leda nalazi se jato bakalara.

And the cod are there

A bakalari su tu

because they are feeding on all the copepods and amphipods.

jer se hrane svim tim kopepodima i amfipodima.

Alright, my favorite part.

U redu, moj omiljeni deo.

When I'm on my deathbed,

Kada budem na smrtnoj postelji,

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

setiću se jedne priče više od bilo koje druge.

Even though that spirit bear moment was powerful,

Iako je taj trenutak sa spirit medvedom bio moćan,

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

mislim da nikada više neću iskusiti

like I did with these leopard seals.

ono što sam sa ovim leopard fokama.

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

Leopard foke su od vremena Šekletona, bile na lošem glasu.

They've got that wryly smile on their mouth.

Imaju taj cinični osmeh na licu.

They've got those black sinister eyes

Imaju one crne, zlokobne oči

and those spots on their body.

i one tačke na svom telu.

They look positively prehistoric and a bit scary.

Izgledaju pozitivno preistorijski i pomalo zastrašujuće.

And tragically in [2003],

I tragično 2004.,

a scientist was taken down and drowned,

leopard foka je uhvatila, udavila

and she was being consumed by a leopard seal.

i pojela jednu naučnicu.

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

I ljudi su govorili: "Znali smo da su zle. Znali smo."

And so people love to form their opinions.

Ljudi vole da imaju svoje mišljenje.

And that's when I got a story idea:

I tada sam dobio ideju za priču:

I want to go to Antarctica,

želim da odem na Antarktik,

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

uđem u vodu sa što više leopard foki

and give them a fair shake --

i dam im poštenu priliku -

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

da otkrijem da li su zle životinje, ili su pogrešno shvaćene.

So this is that story.

I ovo je ta priča.

Oh, and they also happen to eat Happy Feet.

Oh, da, ispostavlja se da jedu pingvine.

(Laughter)

( smeh )

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

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

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

samim tim, ako ih leoprad foke jedu, onda su one ružne i loše.

It doesn't work that way.

Ne ide to tako.

The penguin doesn't know it's cute,

Pingvin ne zna da je sladak.

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

A leopard foka ne zna da je nekako velika i strašna.

This is just the food chain unfolding.

To je samo prikaz lanca ishrane.

They're also big.

One su takođe velike.

They're not these little harbor seals.

One nisu male poput običnih foki.

They are 12 ft. long, a thousand pounds.

Duge su 3 i po metra, teške pola tone.

And they're also curiously aggressive.

Takođe su znatiželjno agresivne.

You get 12 tourists packed into a Zodiac,

Spakujete 12 turista u vozilo,

floating in these icy waters,

pustite ih da plutaju na ledenim vodama,

and a leopard seal comes up and bites the pontoon.

a leopard foka dođe i zagrize ponton.

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

Brod počinje da tone, oni se trkaju nazad do broda

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

i uspeju da odu kući i pričaju priče o tome kako su bili napadnuti.

All the leopard seal was doing --

Sve što je leopard foka radila -

it's just biting a balloon.

samo je zagrizla balon.

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

Samo vidi taj veliki balon u okeanu - nema ruke -

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

moraće samo malo da zagrize, brod pukne, i oni odoše.

(Laughter)

( smeh )

So after five days of crossing the Drake Passage --

Dakle posle pet dana prolaska kroz prolaz Drake -

isn't that beautiful --

zar nije to divno.

after five days of crossing the Drake Passage,

Posle pet dana prelaženja prolaza Drake,

we have finally arrived at Antarctica.

konačno smo stigli na Antarktik.

I'm with my Swedish assistant and guide.

Ja sam sa svojim asistentom i vodičem iz Švedske.

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 mnogo iskustva sa leopard fokama. Ja nikad nisam video ni jednu.

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

Došli smo iza uvale u svom malom Zodijak brodu,

and there's this monstrous leopard seal.

i tu je ta monstruozna leopard foka.

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

Pa čak i u njegovom glasu, reče: " To je prokleto velika foka."

(Laughter)

( smeh )

And this seal is taking this penguin by the head,

I ta foka uzima tog pingvina za glavu,

and it's flipping it back and forth.

i prevrće ga sa jedne na drugu stranu.

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

A pokušava da izvrne unutrašnjost pingvina,

so it can eat the meat off the bones,

kako bi pojela meso sa kostiju,

and then it goes off and gets another one.

a onda odlazi da uhvati sledećeg.

And so this leopard seal grabbed another penguin,

I tako je ta leopard foka zgrabila još jednog pingvina,

came under the boat, the Zodiac,

došla ispod broda, Zodijaka,

starting hitting the hull of the boat.

i počela da udara dno broda.

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

I mi smo pokušavali da ne padnemo u vodu.

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

Seli smo na pod, i tad mi je Goran rekao,

"This is a good seal, ya.

"Ovo je dobra doka, da.

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

Vreme je da uđeš u vodu."

(Laughter)

( smeh )

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

Pogledao sam u Gorana i rekao: "Zaboravi to."

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

Ali mislim da sam verovatno rekao drugu reč, koja počinje na slovo J.

But he was right.

Ali bio je u pravu.

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

Kritikovao me je rekavši: " Zbog toga smo ovde.

And you purposed this stupid story to National Geographic.

A ti si predložio ovu glupu priču Nacionalnoj geografiji.

And now you've got to deliver.

I sad moraš to da uradiš.

And you can't publish excuses."

Ne možeš da objaviš izgovore."

So I had such dry mouth --

Usta su mi bila toliko suva -

probably not as bad as now --

verovatno ne kao sada -

but I had such, such dry mouth.

ali sam imao tako suva usta.

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

A noge su samo drhtale. Nisam mogao da osetim svoje noge.

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

Stavio sam peraja. Jedva sam razdvojio usne.

I put my snorkel in my mouth,

Stavio sam cev za disanje u usta

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

i prevrnuo sam se preko ivice Zodijaka u vodu.

And this was the first thing she did.

Ovo je bila prva stvar koju je uradila.

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

Zajurila se prema meni, zahvatila je ceo moj fotoaparat -

and her teeth are up here and down here --

i njeni zubi su ovde gore i ovde dole -

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

ali Goran mi je, pre nego što sam ušao u vodu, dao sjajan savet.

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

Rekao je: "Ako se uplašiš, zatvori oči, da, i ona će otići."

(Laughter)

( smeh )

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

Dakle to je sve sa čim sam trebao raditi u tom trenu.

But I just started to shoot these pictures.

Ali tek sam počeo da pravim fotografije.

So she did this threat display for a few minutes,

Dakle, ona je pokazivala ovu pretnju nekoliko minuta,

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

ali se onda desila najneverovatnija stvar - potpuno se opustila.

She went off, she got a penguin.

Otišla je, uhvatila pongvina.

She stopped about 10 feet away from me,

Zaustavila se na oko tri metra od mene

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

i stajala je sa tim pingvinom, pingvin udara perajima i ona ga pušta.

The penguin swims toward me, takes off.

Pingvin pliva prema meni, odlazi.

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

Ona zgrabi još jednog. Ponavlja to iznova i iznova.

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

I sinulo mi je da ona pokušva da me nahrani pingvinom.

Why else would she release these penguins at me?

Zašto bi inače puštala pingvine prema meni?

And after she did this four or five times,

I nakon što je ovo uradila 4 ili 5 puta,

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

zaplivala je pored mene sa tim utučenim izrazom lica.

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

Ne želite da budete previše antropomorfni, ali kunem se da me je pogledala

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

kao: " Ovaj beskorisni predator će umreti od gladi u mom okeanu."

(Laughter)

( smeh )

So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins,

I pošto je shvatila da ne mogu da uhvatim plivajuće pingvine,

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

ona je uhvatila ove druge pingvine i polako ih donosila meni,

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

klateći se ovako, i onda bi ih pustila.

This didn't work.

To nije upalilo.

I was laughing so hard and so emotional

Toliko sam se snažno i emotivno smejao

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

da je moja maska bila poplavljena, jer sam plakao pod vodom,

just because it was so amazing.

samo zato što je bilo neverovatno.

And so that didn't work.

Dakle, to nije vredelo,

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

I onda bi donela još jednog pingvina i probala sa tim baletskim, seksi nastupom

sliding down this iceberg like this. (Laughter)

klizeći niz taj ledeni breg ovako.

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

I na neki način bi ih donela do mene i ponudila mi ih.

This went on for four days.

To se nastavilo četiri dana.

This just didn't happen a couple of times.

Nije se to desilo samo par puta.

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

I kada je shvatila da ne mogu da uhvatim žive,

so she brought me dead penguins.

donela mi je mrtve pingvine.

(Laughter)

( smeh )

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

Sad sam imao četiri ili pet pingvina koji plutaju oko moje glave,

and I'm just sitting there shooting away.

a ja samo sedim i pravi snimke.

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

I ona bi često stala i imala taj sažaljiv izraz lica, kao

like, "Are you for real?"

"Jesi li ti stvaran?"

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

Jer ne može da veruje da ne mogu da pojedem pingvina.

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

Jer u njenom svetu, ili se množite ili jedete -

and I'm not breeding, so ...

a ja se nisam množio.

(Laughter)

( smeh )

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

I to nije bilo dovoljno; počela je da baca pingvine na moju glavu.

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

Pokušavala je da me nahrani silom. Gurala me je naokolo.

She's trying to force-feed my camera,

Pokušava da silom nahrani moj aparat,

which is every photographer's dream.

što je san svakog fotografa.

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

I iznervirala bi se, duvala bi mehuriće meni u lice.

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

Htela je, mislim, da mi da do znanja da ću umreti od gladi.

But yet she didn't stop.

Ali ipak nije prestala.

She would not stop trying to feed me penguins.

Nije prestajala da proba da me nahrani pingvinima.

And on the last day with this female

I poslednjeg dana sa ovom ženkom

where I thought I had pushed her too far,

kada sam mislio da sam preterao,

I got nervous because she came up to me,

unervozio sam se, jer je došla do mene,

she rolled over on her back,

prevrnula se na leđa,

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

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

And I thought, she's about to bite.

I pomislio sam, uješće me.

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

Daće mi do znanja koliko se iznervirala.

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

A desilo se to da se još jedna foka prišunjala iza mojih leđa,

and she did that to threat display.

i uradila je to da je uplaši.

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

Oterala je tu veliku foku, otišla i uhvatila njenog pingvina

and brought it to me.

i donela ga meni.

(Laughter)

( smeh )

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

To nije jedina foka sa kojom sam bio u vodi.

I got in the water with 30 other leopard seals,

Bio sam u vodi sa 30 različitih leopard foki,

and I never once had a scary encounter.

i nikada nisam imao ni jedan strašan trenutak.

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

One su najizvanrednije životinje sa kojima sam ikada radio,

and the same with polar bears.

kao i polarni medvedi.

And just like the polar bears,

I poput polarnih medveda,

these animals depend on an icy environment.

ove životinje se oslanjaju na ledeno okruženje.

I get emotional. Sorry.

Postanem emotivan. Izvinite.

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 delim sa vama.

And I'm so passionate about it.

I vrlo sam strastven u vezi sa njom.

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

Ako bilo ko želi da krene sa mnom na Antarktik ili Arktik, povešću vas, hajdemo.

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

Moramo da popularizujemo ovu priču. Mnogo vam hvala.

(Applause)

( aplauz )

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

( aplauz )

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

( aplauz )

Thank you. Thanks very much.

Hvala vam. Mnogo vam hvala.

(Applause)

( aplauz )

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

( aplauz)