On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:49:11 -0700, Carol DeVolder wrote:
What kind of source is the Daily Mail? Is it Onion-like?
Simple answer, no. The story was picked up and repeated in a number of
outlets, including the Telegraph:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/icy-beauty-goes-skinny-dipping-with-beluga-whales-the-shy-dancers-of-the-deep/story-e6freuy9-1226077408684
And for reasons that I don't know, BBC covered it in various foreign
language
versions of its websites; see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/video_fotos/2011/07/110713_galeria_belugas_natalia_avseenko_rg.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/noticias/2011/07/110718_russa_nua_baleias_bg.shtml
And the Huffington Post carried it though their license for the pictures
appears to have expired:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/beluga-nude-swimmer_n_878736.html#s293409title=Naked_Female_Scientist
Note that the Mail story is dated June 2011 and the rest are from around
that
time. Although presented as something like a research study (do beluga
whales
prefer human skin to covered skin) there doesn't appear to have been any
publication
or follow-up on this. The pretty pictures are the work of the Russian
photographer
Viktor Lyagushkin and this webpage contains a video of photos taken:
http://michelbraunstein.com/swimming-naked-with-beluga-whales/
The woman in the video, Natalia Avseenko, was also in another underwater
photoshoot called"The Lady of Orda Cave"; some of the images can be seen
here:
http://michelbraunstein.com/the-lady-of-orda-cave/
All of this is part of a group called Phototeam.Pro and more info and video
can be gotten here:
http://michelbraunstein.com/phototeam-pro/
Additional photos from the beluga whale series can seen here:
http://englishrussia.com/2011/06/14/touching-the-beauty-of-the-underwater-world/#more-55476
and here:
http://englishrussia.com/2011/06/14/touching-the-beauty-of-the-underwater-world/2/
-Mike Palij
New York University
[email protected]
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Pollak, Edward (Retired) <[email protected]
wrote:
(*I'm not sure about the scientific utility here but the pictures are
truly stunning. Ed*)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004042/Naked-female-scientist-tries-tame-beluga-whales-arctic.html
Braving sub-zero temperatures, she has thrown caution - and her clothes -
to the wind to tame two beluga whales in a unique and controversial
experiment.
Natalia Avseenko, 36, was persuaded to strip naked as marine experts
believe belugas do not like to be touched by artificial materials such as
diving suits.
The skilled Russian diver took the plunge as the water temperature hit
minus 1.5 degrees Centigrade.
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