Indian Ocean Videos

The Somali pirates holding a British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, have demanded a $7m (£4.3m) ransom for their release.Author: itnnews Tags: ransom rachel chandler cobra seychelles pirates government somali pirates couple yacht indian ocean itn foreign office somalia paul chandler bbc itv news lynn rival tanzania Posted: 01 November 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

On February 23rd, hundreds of thousands of visitors came to the Isha Yoga Center to celebrate Mahashivarathri 2009. With discourses and powerful meditations by Sadhguru, internationally renowned artists joined in making this night a truly powerful possibility for all those present. Please visit the Isha Download Store to purchase and download a 4 hour compilation audio/video series of this event.

Off the Western most coast of Australia is a secret location known to only a very few people, and around 5000 humpback whales. It?s a special place. It?s a magic place. It?s a place where humpbacks come to mate, to give birth and to teach their young how to survive. This nursery has only just been discovered by humanity, though the whales have known about it for millennium. The people who discovered this place are Curt and Mich Jenner a husband a wife scientific team who run the Australian Centre for Whale Research. They live on the research vessel WhaleSong with their 3 year old daughter Micah. In WhaleSong the Jenners take us to this, the humpback bedroom, as they and Earthwatch volunteers study pregnant and nursing humpbacks, with the hope of seeing something which has never been seen before, the birth of a humpback whale. WhaleSong is a celebration of the humpback whale. In this programme we see unique behavioural footage never before filmed. We see two huge 50 feet humpbacks gently playing in seaweed, or rather making love in the seaweed. Finding the weed somewhat sensual the pair roll around in it for hours. The Jenners have been studying humpbacks for 10 years and say they have never seen anything like this before. We also followed a mother and two-week-old calf. Amazing scenes as we witness her teaching her calf how to fluke slap, how to slap its pectoral fin and the most breathtaking of all, how to breach (to jump out of the water). Other unique footage includes a pregnant cow in labour. The incredible thing about this is she was hanging upside down, almost as if she was hanging by her tail; she was with an escort. At first it was thought this escort was a midwife, but then the boat started to vibrate as the huge whale below began to sing. Accepted wisdom has it that only males sing. Accepted wisdom has it that only females act as midwives. So was this escort a singing female or a male helping out? This potentially will re-write the textbooks. Another amazing and very rare sight - a mega-pod of eight whales, seven of whom were males. Humpbacks are solitary animals and are rarely seen in-groups larger than two or three. As already stated this area is a nursery. These seven males however cared not for the pregnant females or the newborn learning how to survive. Like a gang of bikies they tore through the area churning up the sea and ?singing up a storm? with their competing whale songs trying to attract a mate. Rambunctious males aren?t the main threat to baby humpbacks, we see a 5.5 metre white pointer shark attacking and eating a one tonne sea lion. But the main threat to these whales is humanity and in WhaleSong the scientists call for this pristine area to be declared a sanctuary for future generations of humpbacks.

The Maldives are comprised of 1196 tiny atolls sitting on larger atolls, off the coast of India in the Indian Ocean. These tiny sand islands rise only a few feet above the surface, and many have large hotels from water's edge on one side to the water's edge on the other.