[VO] We are out in the ocean.
[VO] I remember after the first circumnavigation,
none of us planned to sale the world again.
[VO] But the call of the ocean is strong.
[VO] So, here we both are— the ocean around us.
THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION. A TRIMARAN FOR TWO. EPISODE ONE
[Evgeny Kovalevsky, Voyager, Social Activist, Scientist, Russia]
[Evgeny] Our team is Stanislav Beryozkin from Novosibirsk and, me, from Tomsk
[Evgeny] The priority of our expedition is to benefit our country, Russia
[Evgeny] That's educational and scientific programmes, diplomacy...
[Evgeny] We visit a lot of countries and meet people
[Evgeny] It's crucial for us to evoke positive emotions towards Russians
and what we do
[People] Russia and Chile are friends!
[Stanislav] Evgeny is an international master of sports tourism,
an outstanding Russian voyager
[Stanislav] Ah, almost forgot: Zhenya is a real entertainer
[Evgeny] The sea waves are laughing...
[Evgeny] Come the morning, only wreckage of that boat
were wallowing on the waves
[Evgeny] I'm a geography professor
[Evgeny] I've rafted on extreme mountain rivers for 35 years
[Evgeny] Perhaps my greatest achievement is Himalayan rafting,
including from Everest
[VO] But this round-the-world trip is toughest expedition of my life.
[Stanislav] I'm Stanislav Beryozkin, the captain of this wonderful expedition ship
The trimaran's brave and valiant captain...
He has such penetrating eyes, such a forehead, full of intellect!
[VO] Seriously though, Stanislav, an automated systems engineer,
is Russian sailing tourism champion.
[Stanislav] A 15-year-old boy who dreams of sailing the ocean
should go to sea and circumnavigate the world
[Stanislav] Childhood dreams must come true
REENACTMENT
[VO] In 1774, the English navigator James Cook,
after failing to find Antarctica,
arrogantly said,
'The southern lands will never be explored.'
[VO] But on January 16, 1820,
the Russian navigators Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
and Mikhail Lazarev discovered Antarctica.
[VO] And Adam Johann von Krusenstern was a Russian navigator
who led Russia's first circumnavigation from 1803–1806.
[VO] Our trip follows Krusenstern's route.
[VO] We're under sail too.
[VO] And our round-the-world trip begins
just like our great compatriots did —in Kronstadt.
July 1, 2021
[People] Hooray!
[Evgeny] We'll be back!
[People] See you! We'll be waiting for you!
[People] Hooray!
[VO] Our journey will take about three years:
from Saint Petersburg— east to west around the world
and back to Saint Petersburg in three years.
[VO] We change watch shifts every three hours
and unconsciously compare it to our last trip
when it was four of us -now, it's just two.
[Evgeny] It's rather hard
[Evgeny] At the next-to-last watch,
from 3 to 6am, I fell asleep about 20 times for about 15 seconds
[Evgeny] You drop the rudder, the boat starts drifting, you wake up and sail on
[Stanislav] How do 2- and 4-men crews differ?
[Stanislav] In terms of workload, it's physically harder with just two
[Stanislav] You need special technical means to make it easier, that's usually autopilot,
but we don't have one, so it's noticeably harder with two
[VO] First stop: Finland, the city of Kotka.
[VO] And that ship on the portside is MS Roald Amundsen.
July 2021
[VO] Starting mooring.
[VO] We have to do a COVID test.
[Evgeny] We're giving in
[Stanislav] Giving up… We give up!
[VO] And then, three days of quarantine, to comply with the country's laws.
[VO] We cook right here on the catamaran and eat what we get.
[VO] Stas is not only the captain, he's a good cook too.
[Stanislav] Just like a home kitchen
[Stanislav] We stir it...
in white gloves, as is proper
[Evgeny] Stas is a cooking demigod
[Stanislav] Especially when there are 1.5 ingredients, why not cook?
[VO] As expected, we are perfectly healthy
and now can go to the city.
[Evgeny] We're celebrating our arrival in Finland
[Stanislav] What an interesting place we've got here
[Evgeny] Why do you need nuts? [Stanislav] I'll make beads out of them
[Stanislav] I'll turn 65mm nuts, imagine that!
[Evgeny] €409 euros and 95 something...
[Stanislav] How do boys and men differ?
[Stanislav] Men's toys are usually bigger, and always pricier
[Evgeny] Wow, Stas! We've spent 430 bucks just like that!
[Evgeny] Yes, just on bolts, enough!
[Pyotr Yakhmenev, Rossotrudnichestvo's Representative in Finland]
[Pyotr] There are a lot of places related to the Russian Navy in Finland
[Pyotr] Many sailors on the 'St. Nikolai', a rowing frigate, died here
[Pyotr] This monument was erected in their honour
[VO] And there is Russian Orthodox Church .
[Woman] Good day! [Stanislav] Good day!
[Stanislav] We visited the royal fisherman's hut built for Alexander III and his family
[Stanislav] A magical place, just magical
[VO] We're asking the locals what they know about Russia.
[Man] I know that people in Russia are very kind,
and if necessary, they will give you their last pair of pants.
[Stanislav] Yes, right
[VO] We're sailing for Sweden. But it seems our trimaran has hiccoughs.
[Evgeny] The vessel is experimental, it isn't perfected
[Evgeny] And now it's clear that many mistakes have slipped through,
both in terms of design and sturdiness
[Evgeny] And yet, I take it like this:
it's a challenge - a difficult and extreme challenge
[Evgeny] It's cold in the North and Baltic Seas, and I chill easily
[Evgeny] My feet freeze, I put on a lot of clothes:
thermal underwear, tights, snow pants with storm pants on top,
fleece jackets on top of that, 3 padded sleeveless jackets,
then another fleece and storm jacket, a balaclava, a hat, 2 buffs...
[Evgeny] But I'm still cold because there's no sun at night
[Evgeny] It's windy, and the wind whips up spray
[Evgeny] And I have to keep watch for 4 hours
[VO] Here we are at Marina.
[VO] It’s still 42 kilometres to Stockholm.
[VO] We won’t stay here long.
[Evgeny] Did you hear about Siberia?
[Man] Of course, it's cold
[Man] Big, big, big area with lots of natural resources and forests
[VO] We're preparing our papers and heading for the next port—Malmö.
[VO] We’re getting on amicably, at least for now.
[Evgeny] Stanislav is unflappable
[Evgeny] He can sleep and eat under any conditions, go without food and sleep,
ignore cuts, bruises, light injuries, and illnesses...
[Evgeny] So, he's strong
[Evgeny] He's an excellent navigator: he plots a route, studies the weather
[Evgeny] He knows the historical aspects of our expedition well
[Evgeny] That's crucial, as we are on the path of Russian circumnavigators
[Evgeny] Stas knows what Krusenstern, Kotzebue, Golovnin,
Lisyansky, Bellinshausen, and Lazarev discovered
[Evgeny] And most importantly, we're the only ones ready to endure
all these hardships, difficulties, and problems for each other
[Stanislav] One of Evgeny's best qualities is his ability to remain patient
[Stanislav] He's patient, very diplomatic, and he knows how to negotiate everywhere
[Stanislav] In the previous expedition, we nicknamed him
'Foreign Affairs Minister', as he solved our diplomatic issues
[Stanislav] He arranged places for us to moor and stay
[Stanislav] His second quality is his ability to achieve goals
[Stanislav] If he decides to achieve something, as a rule, he will
Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, greets us with heavy fog.
[Evgeny] It's OK, we've moored alright [Stanislav] The outrigger will break
[Evgeny] It won't break
[Stanislav] Out? [Evgeny] Yes
[Stanislav] OK, pull!
[Evgeny] We're following the path of the first Russian circumnavigators
[Evgeny] This is the main point of our project
[Evgeny] Aleksandr Prishchepov, a descendant of Krusenstern,
is on the trimaran 'Russian Ocean Way'
[Aleksandr Prishchepov, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Sweden] It's a great honour to be here
[Aleksandr] Yes, I'm a descendant of Adam Johann von Krusenstern
[Aleksandr] He is my great-great-great-great-grandfather
[Aleksandr] When I stated this in a school geography class,
a lot of people didn't believe me
[Aleksandr] There were reunions in Germany and Poland
with more than 100 Krusensterns from all over the world
[Aleksandr] Life and the revolution had scattered us
[Evgeny] My surname is Kovalevsky, my great-great-great-great-grandmother
was Sofya Kovalevskaya, the famous mathematician
[Evgeny] So, does this leave its mark?
[Aleksandr] I am now a professor of geography at the University of Copenhagen
[Aleksandr] I'm very interested in your circumnavigation,
as mine was incomplete
[Aleksandr] I did half on the barque 'Krusenstern' in 1995–1996
as a Youth Marine League cadet
[Aleksandr] It was a great honour and challenge: leave for 6 months at 17yo!
[Aleksandr] The travel bug is probably inherent in boys
[Aleksandr] It just has to lie on fertile ground in good people
[Aleksandr] A fair wind to you, with no gusts in your sails
[Aleksandr] We're looking forward to seeing you back
[Evgeny] We are glad to be on Krusenstern's path with his descendant seeing us off
[People] Bye, bye! Good luck!
[People] Good luck!
[Evgeny] Stas and I just saw a very unusual thing
[Evgeny] These are Dutch merchant barques...
or barges
[Evgeny] The Dutch even race them
[Evgeny] But this one is stylized or something
[Evgeny] It's either a replica or restored
[VO] Military exercises.
[Evgeny] 'Planes are flying: say hello to the Boy!'
[Evgeny] Stas, they're coming for us!
[Evgeny] The German police are here, checking our passports
[Evgeny] He's hanging behind as I'm secretly filming
[Evgeny] The 3 officers are discussing something, looking at our passports
[Evgeny] That's it. They checked our passports and the vessel's certificate and left
[Evgeny] We're now moving in the direction of Malmö, towards Kiel, Germany
[Evgeny] There was a very strong wind
[Evgeny] The trimaran's speed reached 9 knots
[Evgeny] The frame creaked, so we lowered the sails
[Evgeny] I've learned to steer with my foot, as it was very hard to hold the tiller
[Evgeny] You can direct it with your foot
[Evgeny] I don't have the strength to hold it in my hands now
[Evgeny] It's easier now, but, at night, I plant my feet like this
[Stanislav] On the 20th, we'll arrive in Kiel, where we'll finish our Baltic leg
[Stanislav] We'll go through the Kiel Canal into the North Sea
[Stanislav] God knows what awaits us there
[Evgeny] The city of Kiel, Germany
[Evgeny] Today, we're holding a conference in this building
[Evgeny] The German Navy's command centre used to be here
[Evgeny] This bunker is now a museum whose message is 'There should be no wars'
[Evgeny] So, it's a symbol of peace
[Song] In the smi-, in the smithy,
[Song] In the smi-, in the smithy…
[VO] That's the people's diplomacy.
[Song] Young blacksmiths are in the smithy
[Song] They are, they are forging…
[VO] We have to seriously prepare for the vagaries of the North Sea.
[VO] And for more sailing.
[VO] Our trimaran is a bit finicky,
and the hardest passage is still to come.
[Evgeny] As we approached the Kiel Canal,
we saw a gigantic ship called 'Akademik Tryoshnikov'!
[VO] Ship routes from the Baltic to the North Sea
pass through the international Kiel Canal.
[Evgeny] We entered the Kiel Canal and moored
[Evgeny] Stas is tying us down
[Evgeny] A crew's ahead of us
[Stanislav] They look surprised [Evgeny] The family looks surprised
[Woman] A floating catamaran? [Evgeny] Inflatable, we call it inflatable.
[Woman] Inflatable? [Evgeny] Yes, the air is inside.
[Woman] It's a little crazy.
[Evgeny] It's not just crazy, it's absolutely crazy!
[VO] Sailors have different names forit:
some affectionately call it 'the eye of the needle,'
and others used a less friendly name, 'the ditch.'
[VO] This is the busiest ship canal in the world,
and so it requires special care.
[VO] These giants could crush you without even noticing.
[Man] I think it's a crazy project, respect for you guys. Respect and, yeah, God speed!
[Stanislav] We're by the exit to the Elbe, these locks lead to the Elbe
[Stanislav] We'll go through this lock and exit the Kiel Canal
[VO] We're headed to the Netherlands, Amsterdam.
[VO] And the weather is not cooperating.
[Evgeny] It's morning, we're nearing Amsterdam
[Evgeny] Stas, here's a present
[Man] Some lures, some feathers. For example, from mackerel.
[Man] That's lots of mackerel.
[Man] I'm a member of the creq now. No kissing.
[Evgeny] Okay, you are also a member of the crew.
[Evgeny] So now there are four of us.
[Evgeny] Good luck!
[VO] Today August 18, is Geographer's Day,
and we plan to hold a geography lesson.
[Evgeny] I greet all you kids, and adults too
[VO] This is one of the expedition's tasks.
[VO] We regularly conduct 'Lessons from the Ocean.'
[VO] Instead of a lecture – it's a live link with modern travellers.
[Yulia Kalyuzhnaya, Executive Director, Tomsk Branch of the Russian Geographical Society]
[Yulia] Today, 13 different foreign countries are already joining us
for these 'Lessons from the Ocean'
[Man] It's fantastic! Thank you very match.
[VO] The main teacher
is the ocean.
[VO] Who knows: maybe it'll be these boys and girls to whom the ocean will reveal its secrets?
[Evgeny] We're measuring radioactivity
[VO] One scientific task we were given
was to measure the radioactive background of the waters
that we're planning to sail through.
[VO] August 19th. Radiation.
[VO] I'm checking the coordinates...
August 2021
[VO] France is near. We should probably shave.
[VO] We'll have to visit several ports here.
[Evgeny] Kill the engine
[Evgeny] Great!
[Stanislav] We're in French Dunkirk
[VO] Here in Dunkirk, the main attraction is the military museum.
[VO] Here they tell how, in 1940,
the British evacuated the remnants
of the Anglo-French units defeated by the Germans.
[VO] That grand failure, when the Nazis in only a couple of weeks destroyed two armies,
then considered the best in the world,
is presented in this museum as a story of success
where survivors were saved and evacuated to Britain.
[Evgeny] Dunkirk. Morning jog. I try to jog about 4 kilometres in the morning
[Evgeny] Today, I saw a cool park on my jog
[Evgeny] They've made some things from metal and wood
[Evgeny] Wooden sheep, a rhinoceros, some bird swimming on the lake,
a fish sculpture...
very nice hills...
concrete flowers
[Evgeny] From afar, they look like poppies
[Evgeny] Close up, you see a piece of concrete planted on rebar...
and painted red to look like flowers
[Evgeny] Well, jog's over, I'm going to hit the shower
[Evgeny] Some kind of event:
people are rallying for some cause with the police in front
[VO] We're saying goodbye to our French friends.
[Evgeny] And also, this is Russian Geographical Society.
[Evgeny] But this is already for a man.
[Evgeny] Present?
[Stanislav] Don't get distracted, Evgeny
[VO] Entering Calais port.
[Stanislav] 2 new crew members have arrived
[Stanislav] So glad to see you here!
[Evgeny] This is Marina Klimova and Vitaly Tsyganov
[Stanislav] They're from Novokuznetsk - Russia's 'most maritime city'
[VO] They are sailing with us to Spain on this not too dangerous part of the trip.
[VO] We can share duties and get less tired.
[VO] Our trimaran needs repairs again…
[Stanislav] Hand me that
[VO]…and thorough cleaning.
[VO] It seems like our troubled trimaran
will make us repair it all the time.
[Stanislav] It's a dramatic place
[Stanislav] Here begins Cabo Finisterre, which the Spanish...
thought was Earth's end...
that they'd sail from Vigo, and the land would end
[Stanislav] It's a harsh region, very harsh
[VO] We're sailing to Spain, to the city of Vigo.
[Evgeny] The depth below us is 70 metres
September 2021
[VO] The trimaran needs serious repairs.
[Evgeny] We're in Vigo, Spain
[Evgeny] Before the dash across the Atlantic, the front beam broke,
so we stopped in Spain
[VO] The ancient Spanish city of Vigo, the gateway to the Atlantic.
[VO] We give a speech about our journey and Russia at a local university.
[Evgeny] I represent extreme travelling -
Russian extreme travelling
[Evgeny] Sometimes, sharks can pass. Sharks attack our trimaran
[People] Spain and Russia are friends!
[VO] Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean await.
[VO] We've taken new crew members on board until the next stop.
[VO] We need money for the endless repairs,
and temporary crewmembers are ready to pay for a chance to spend at least some time at sea.
[VO] Although they are well-trained,
we only employ them only during short, easier parts of our voyage.
[Stanislav] In this weather, you want to take off your fleece pants
[Stanislav] A lot
[Evgeny] We're going fast
[Stanislav] 3.5 knots, yes
[Evgeny] Feels so good!
[VO] We're in Portugal.
[VO] We've passed Cape Roca, now we’re almost in Lisbon.
[VO] There – the westernmost point of continental Europe.
[Evgeny] For us, this is an iconic place. It's called Cabo da Roca or Cape Roca
[Evgeny] This is where the land ends and the ocean begins,
so said Portuguese poet Luís Vaz de Camões
[VO] A monastery. The castle's called Jerónimos.
[VO] Home to Vasco da Gama relics.
[Evgeny] In the 1400s, a Vasco da Gama expedition
passed from Europe to India for the first time
[Evgeny] Afterwards, he secured the right not to stand and doff his hat
to Europe's kings
[Evgeny] Goodbye, Portugal!
[Evgeny] Goodbye, Lisbon!
[Evgeny] Oh, what a beautiful dawn!
[Evgeny] Fantastic!
[VO] We sail from Lisbon to Rabat, Morocco.
[Evgeny] Why did I choose to be a traveller? It's not a profession, it's a way of life
[Evgeny] I didn't choose it
[Evgeny] I simply thought about it and realised I was a traveller
[Evgeny] Everyone has an ability they need to discover:
a scientist, or writer, or musician
[Evgeny] Russians have made the largest number of round-the-world trips
[Evgeny] There were about 50 Russian circumnavigation expeditions,
and another 50 by the rest of the world
[Evgeny] I simply want to remind the world
that Russians made significant contributions
to discovering the world's oceans and to their study and mapping
[Evgeny] They named islands, capes, and so on
[Evgeny] I'm Russian and a Russian patriot,
so everything I do is for Russia's benefit
[Stanislav] We're in Rabat
[Stanislav] I'm securing the beam, the rivets are leaking a bit
[Evgeny] That's the coast
[Evgeny] Policemen are watching us to make sure we don't go ashore
[Evgeny] Great!
[Evgeny] Farewell!
[Evgeny] We're leaving Rabat without going ashore
[Evgeny] Finally, after 2 troublesome days, we were released from Morocco
[Evgeny] We stayed 1 night, but they didn't let us ashore
[Evgeny] We couldn't use the bathroom, take a shower, or turn on the hot water
[Evgeny] And then they asked us to pay €25 for our stay
[Evgeny] So, we said: 'How so? For what? Just let us go!' And so they did
[VO] Approaching Tenerife's coast.
[Stanislav] Tie it to the next cleat [Man] This one?
[Stanislav] Yeah
[Evgeny] The wonderful Güímar Pyramids Museum...
[Evgeny] Here, there are exhibits on all the travels
of famous Norwegian navigator Thor Heyerdahl
[Evgeny] Three models of boats used by Thor Heyerdahl to cross the Atlantic
[Evgeny] Ra I, Ra II, and the latest model is called Tigris
[Stanislav] These were made by Egyptians,
and these were made from papyrus by Titicaca Indians
[Evgeny] There should be a rope from bow to stern here
[Stanislav] Over there
[Stanislav] This is how they built them on Lake Titicaca
[Stanislav] Perhaps, Ra was also built this way
[Evgeny] We're leaving Tenerife, heading for Cape Verde
[Evgeny] We keep watch on Coleman boxes. See how Stas is sitting?
[Evgeny] The box is hard, rock solid,
so your skin begins to peel off your backside
[Evgeny] So, here I have Oflomelid salve to apply to my behind
[Stanislav] Your stern [Evgeny] My stern
[Stanislav] Do you do it yourselves, or can you ask a friend?
[Evgeny] You could, but it'd be much …
[Stanislav] I think that's the wrong place
[Evgeny] What can you do? It's a fact of life
[Ildar Mukharashev, Member, Tomsk Branch of the Russian Geographical Society]
[Ildar] I knew right away that I had to be here
[Ildar] It was a very tough road
[Ildar] My name is Ildar Mukharashev
[Ildar] I'm 33 years old
[Ildar] And by the will of fate, I ended up on this boat,
which is heading to the Cape Verde Islands
[Evgeny] What's that? - Our night's catch
[Evgeny] 8 fish
They look good, really fresh
[Evgeny] We get a flying fish on board every day
[Ildar] We don't salt or pepper it, we just put it in oil, right?
[Stanislav] Yes, salt it yourself [Evgeny] It's fresh, why salt or pepper it?
[Evgeny] It's fresh!
[Ildar] Well, Jack, how is it?
[Evgeny] Wonderful!
[Stanislav] Flying fish should be coated in flour and salt, it's bony
What about tuna?
[Stanislav] It's almost boneless, you can make a steak out of it
[Evgeny] It's great! You can take a piece of tuna and eat it raw
[Ildar] Oh, my!
[Ildar] There are our little ones
[Ildar] I touched a dolphin!
[Evgeny] The torsion bars broke again
[Evgeny] That's the outside, I'll show you the inside too
[Stanislav] The situation's very bad
[Stanislav] If I say the situation's bad, it really is bad
[Stanislav] Couldn't be worse
[Stanislav] Well, the risk is, if our outrigger flies off,
we'll just sit in the water, and that's it
[Stanislav] The end
[Evgeny] Might even be the end of our lives
[Evgeny] My favourite thing is twisting ropes
[Evgeny] I love it, can do it, believe in it... they're reliable
[Evgeny] Nothing holds faster than a twisted rope
[Evgeny] The only fear that always arises is that, God forbid,
something will happen that will force us to abort the expedition...
one or another of us dies,
or we're broken in half by a surfacing submarine or whale,
or a large ship runs us over, and we all sink and die,
or we sink but don't die
[Evgeny] That's always my greatest fear
[Stanislav] The risk?
[Stanislav] The deadliest place on Earth is your bed
[Stanislav] 99.9% of people die in bed
[Stanislav] But…
there's a saying: 'What would you sell your life for?'
[Stanislav] It's not the risk, but the price of the risk
[Stanislav] Your motherland, children, vanity, or whatever else
[Stanislav] For example, I'm not willing to sell my life for the sake of my vanity
[VO] I'm ill. And getting sick at sea is the last thing you want.
[Evgeny] I'm tearing up, and I feel rotten
[Evgeny] When the steering gear broke today, I started to furl the mainsail,
and my head got cloudy
[Evgeny] I hope it's just some virus and not Covid
[Evgeny] It would suck if it's Covid
[Stanislav] Hurt?
[Evgeny] It's OK
[VO] I'm already better.
[VO] We're approaching Cape Verde.
São Vicente island, Mindelo city.
October 2021
[Evgeny] Here, we can see the singer Cesária Évora,
who was born in Mindelo
[Evgeny] They scraped this image out of the plaster
[Oscar Melifio, Businessman, Cape Verde]
[Oscar] Oscar David Fonse Cabelesio, or just Oscar Melifio
[Oscar] I was born here, on São Vicente island
[Oscar] I studied in Astrakhan Higher Institute of Fish Farming
[Oscar] I arrived in the USSR in 1985, before Perestroika
[Oscar] Imagine, there were only young people in the dormitories,
between 18 and 20 years old,
from various countries, almost the whole world,
as well as the USSR...
such an international life
[VO] Margarita. The Astrakhan treasure that Oscar found and brought to Cape Verde.
[Oscar] We both love Russia
[Oscar] I think of Russia as my 2nd homeland
[Evgeny] We've arrived at Oscar's father's house
[Evgeny] His father's name is Veríssimo
Ask them if they need a ride!
[Woman] Thanks, it's not far from here
[Evgeny] Pour me a bit, Stas
[Stanislav] It's coffee flavoured
[Evgeny] Perhaps, we can take some onboard?
[Evgeny] Ask how much a bottle is, Stas
[Song] Katyusha went out onto the river bank,
onto the high and steep river bank
[Song] Katyusha went out onto the river bank,
onto the high and steep river bank
[VO] This is our final stop before the long Atlantic crossing.
Got the hang of it?
[Roman] Totally!
[Roman Garazhiev, Member, Russian Geographical Society] My name's Roman Garazhiev
[Roman] I'm 35 now
[Roman] I'm a member of the Moscow branch of the Russian Geographical Society
[Roman] I want to get on the ocean:
on a boat...
a mattress, a trampoline, any way I can
[Evgeny] Our inventory of supplies:
2 bags of potatoes,
pasta,
a bag of onions
[Evgeny] Here are more food lockers
[Evgeny] Sausages,
cereals, millet,
and various canned goods
[Evgeny] More sausages… without them, we'd get nowhere
[Evgeny] Sunflower oil
[Song] In the dream that came to me,
[Song] It was as if my raven-black horse
[Song] Was playing about, dancing about,
[Song] Oh, scampering before me
[Song] Was playing about, dancing about…
[Evgeny] Oh, it's nasty!
[VO] We're heading towards Brazil,
and Stanislav is on the evening watch.
[Stanislav] I took over the watch at 4 pm
and heard wood creaking where it shouldn't
[Stanislav] Then, around 7, that creaking began to get on my nerves
[Stanislav] So, I went and saw this hanging here
[Stanislav] 'Guys, an emergency! All hands on deck!'
[Evgeny] Stas comes, wakes me, and says:
'Jack, get up!'
[Evgeny] And he points at the top of the pyramid,
where the mast stands
[Evgeny] And it's completely broken
[Evgeny] My whole body went cold
'Roma, get up!
[Evgeny] Put on your battle gear – it's an emergency!'
[Evgeny] That was it
[Roman] I was asleep
[Roman] They woke me and said:
'Get up, get fully dressed, and come outside!'
[Roman] I saw something was wrong, quickly got up, and packed my things:
my passport in a plastic bag
[Evgeny] I had the feeling the mast could fall at any moment, and it's massive
[Evgeny] If it fell, the whole tent could go down, and we could all be flattened
[Evgeny] If the mast had fallen, it would have gone down like felled pine
[Evgeny] A feeling of helplessness:
the nearest coast is 800 to 900 nautical miles away in Brazil
[Evgeny] That's 1,500 kilometres
[Roman] We went on deck and spent the night there
[Roman] It's incredibly uncomfortable to sleep on deck, the waves were still strong
[Roman] They rock you and spray
[Roman] It was very cold, by the way, terribly cold
[Stanislav] In the morning, we decided to put up a support
[Stanislav] We rigged the mast under the base
[Stanislav] It stands on a tripod, held up by the rods
[Stanislav] And here, we also have the staysail with the stays hooked to the tripod
[Evgeny] With the help of tools, a crowbar, and a lot of sweat and swearing,
we installed and fastened it all
[Evgeny] It's all actually very sturdy
[Evgeny] It holds fast and supports
[Evgeny] Very harsh conditions, a storm with 3-metre waves
[Stanislav] Pumping water from the cooler…
[Stanislav] But, surprisingly, the coffee remained dry
[Evgeny] We were crossing the Atlantic and had an emergency
[Evgeny] Our expedition HQs in Tomsk and Moscow worked well
[Evgeny] Rescue services were notified via the Russian embassy
[Evgeny] We were approached by a Brazilian Navy ship
[Evgeny] They were to give us 70 litres of petrol
[Evgeny] Thank you!
[VO] We brought some souvenirs for them.
[Stanislav] This is for you.
[Evgeny] All together… Thank you!
[Evgeny] We're alive
[Stanislav] If it's mixed with oil, as I'd assume, I'll be ecstatic
[Evgeny] Captain's happy!
[VO] They're pilot whales.
[VO] Like big dolphins,
they are somewhere in-between dolphins and whales.
[Stanislav] Look, there it is, there!
[Stanislav] Very close
[Evgeny] For crossing the Equator...
[Stanislav] 3 cheers! Hip-hip…
[Stanislav, Roman, and Evgeny] Hooray, hooray, hooray!
[VO] In the oldest of maritime tradition, we dedicate Roman to sailors.
[VO] You have to drink a cup of seawater then eat garlic.
[Evgeny] 3, 2, 1... 0!
[Evgeny] Roman, congratulations on receiving this high award
[Evgeny] Keep this medal, show it to all your friends...
SHELLBACK (EQUATOR CROSSER), RUSSIAN OCEAN WAY, ROMAN GARAZHIEV
[Evgeny] Only 5 or 6 people in Russia have a medal like this
[Stanislav]I don't think anyone does
[Stanislav]This is the only one so far [Evgeny] Probably!
[Song] Oh, it isn't evening, it isn't evening
[Song] I didn't get much sleep
[Song] I didn't get much sleep,
[Song] Oh, and I had such a dream...
[Evgeny] We're making a very important crossing
[Evgeny] We call it a dash across the Atlantic, we're crossing the Atlantic Ocean
[Roman] It was a revelation that it's quite cold in the Atlantic near the equator
[Roman] It' surprising
[Roman] At night, we put on a lot of clothes, so there's no 'tropical paradise' here
[Stanislav]For this leg, the longest one,
we have a really well-coordinated and capable crew
[Evgeny] We're able to solve world-class problems without giving up our dream:
this fantastic mission to circumnavigate the globe
[Evgeny] I'm almost 65, and I have concerns about my age
[Evgeny] Can I pull this off?
[Evgeny] My whole life has primarily been about setting challenges for myself
[Stanislav]Land!
[Evgeny] Land!
[Roman] Land!
January 2022
[Roman] Sailing boat is coming for Fort Fortaleza. Over.
[Radio] OK, OK. Thank you very match for information.
[VO] Brazil is deep in Covid. And we're being checked.
[VO] There are paper problems again.
[VO] It is though the same team of officials travells the world.
[VO] It's easier to find common ground with the ocean than with local officials.
[Stanislav] Sanitary inspection here, at federal police
[Stanislav]Then a marine one, at the navy
[Stanislav]We're at customs now, and then back to the navy
[Stanislav]To getting here!
[Evgeny] You're a matador, huh?
[VO] We sail along Brazil’s coast.
[VO] It’s the largest country on the South American continent.
[VO] We plan to make several stops in the largest cities of this beautiful and amazing country.
END OF FIRST EPISODE