The im going to a baby on the pharaoh islands to a pilot whale hunt samsung skiff as often. Lots of people have tried to fill them a pilot while hans on the pharaoh islands. Isnt that they are often chased away in front of us. We know about drones that have been shot out of the the times have been removed from peoples cars. So i dont really know how theyll react to us. A quick warning. Some people may find some of these food each hunt to watch. This documentary tells the story of how it goes here and why it is bloody tradition still exists. The the, the my name is christy, and im sitting next to me is andreas who does the editing. We made a film in september 2021 about adults in hunt on the federal islands for a german news channel. More than 1400 dolphins were killed here. And in just a single day. Doesnt data these. These images went around the world in 2021, because no one had ever documented sloth or in such a large number of dolphins before. And to be honest, those were images, i was then unable to suggest, as well as a couple of 1000 people around the world have protested these kind of hunting. The images upset me and i wanted to know more. We got a camera same flu north to pharaoh while entering the north atlantic between scotland no way. Iceland, just as a 50000 people lives here. Everyone knows everyone. It was important to me to keep an open mind on this trip. I wanted to understand not to judge why people still killing pilot whales, and other adults ends here the my travel a lot, but it looks different to you. Wild and rough. We headed to the capital to shown when most of the sarah weeks live. The Perfect Place to meet people who can introduce us to the world of wild hunters. As his fathers cut off, i am waiting for pet to a young man who lives here on the pharaoh island. Hes also a field making you shop that footage back in 2021. I want him to take me to the place where it all happened. Citizen the you must have had to. Yeah. Hey, good to me to. Is it possible that you bring me to the place where the drum was last time . Yeah, it takes 15 minutes, so its not far away. Okay, perfect. Lets try to get to a see good. The crew key told me he was born on the pharaoh islands and grew up in a small village. In 2021, he realized that Something Special was happening. He showed me the place where the animals was floated the beach. What happened . Yes. Its very silent before, but you can feel that the atkins various like okay, everyones getting ready. Everyone thats participating is getting ready to see where exactly they are going to come in. Like as soon as well as close enough to be killed. Someones gotta be ready. There and then you start coming and just officer and you do us do it as fast as possible. That to us said he didnt take part in the homes back then instead he filled this footage. Its going around the world. If you dont like the size of blood, please look away for a moment. An agonizingly long time was needed for the few overwhelmed hunters. Q. The more than 1400. 00 whiteside adults, and instead of a few minutes, as is usually the case for a 100, as low as it took at least half an hour. But have you ever seen a slaughter like this before . Like this one . No. But what does it cost in the opinion through a thing that should stop or is it ok . Lets continue see on the firearms. Its complicated. When i was young, i joined in the grant that i wanted to be a part of. The grandsons supports my father and getting foods, it was something that was valuable. But then the i went to the other the other day virus. I was against it more or less. How could that be a tradition killing animals that way . But thats where youre from. Some uh, some traditions are more fruitful for all their cultures. I dont think its really a tradition. Its been a necessity also because its been food in times where you couldnt ethan. Some people have called it a gift from called a gift from god may be understandable when theres nothing to eat. But why still do it today . Pet to assess his father also hunts whales and dolphins. And weve been invited to come over. The front door is open. This man eating usually is in some what interest, listen. Pay to his father and the way left. His mother doesnt want to be filmed in so on. The other hand has no problem with it. Hes a teacher and its obviously not the 1st time hes explained to a kid like me, why they que lyles here . Because of this, this picture. Because when you go to germany, you would never see a painting of kidding picks or couse in your living room. But you have that here. Why is it like that . Yeah. Or because we are close to the nature you, you have you ever seen that thing been killed . No, probably not. Because its behind close stores. And here to kindergarten, go to a just loved her house just to see how the sheets were killed. So thats the reason why i keep quiet. You dont see anything killed in any german living room. Sorry. That like it killed. Because id like to meet on the table and so hypocrites. Maybe we know that the intelligent animals as well. Thousands are very intelligent. So why do you think its right to kill these kind of most anyhow . Why just in case wrong . Im not saying that im just asking you why the things right. Im more i working with people that extremely low, intelligent. If intelligence gives me several, gives me the right to kill any wrong. Im really wrong. Let me do it for food. And we go things specialist harsh words from a teacher. Yeah. And seems irritated. See the way it was, know that most non pharaoh ways dont understand and to pose the way. Like we watch a video by c shepherd, an organization that is campaigned against the hunt for years. The Animal Rights activists and many of the locals. The folks that are doing the music. And there was a height of the mind. Yeah. With this video and saying the things you are saying is brutal and so to know what you see me is the best commercial surveys ever. And so, i mean, yeah. So why do you think that they are promoting even degree does right for young families, whalers, and 2012. When c shepherd announced that they would come to the front, why lives there was a green next to the future here and stem this to were so many young people as it work. I wish i would do with all that because and even teach them so many of their work and it has been tough many, ever since. So all what they are doing is the opposite. The Animal Rights activists denounced the whaling, but he ends defense it as a necessity. Whos right . So we can ask the see, ship it activists themselves. But 1st, lets recount what we know about dolphins and the hunt for them. The, the fairways for different types of doses, whiteside adults and for example, the but then mainly interested in pilot whales, which are also adults since they have very social and leaving groups known as pods use this posted and the weather is right. There are ways cold for a and like they have for hundreds of years. The hunters been rushed out to sea and drive the animals into the feud with the boats to killed them in the shallows. They always record how many they killed. An average 630. 00 pilot whales per year, and about 265. 00 of the dolphins, the pharaoh, we say the animals and of the danger. Hundreds of thousands leaving the seas. They dont understand why active us still have a problem with whaling. Stresses im trying to get in touch with samuel from sea ship it unless the activists usually rent small apartments or houses somewhere. I want to meet them and find out where they are on the island and maybe theyll get in touch soon. Finding them is not that easy, said cutting a ship, he just replied, we can meet at 5 pm for the 2nd step though, we get the address and head out. The system was also easy to find the spots because we were checking on the map of the we drove around, but it was not so easy to navigate. And finally, we noticed is cameras. Filming the courtyard as we arrive. They were installed after the team suspected that car had been tempted with work by made alexandra electric from poland starting to confine. Why did you decide to come to the fair rod and im in my info just so i started to start is just starting wheels. Im really interested in them. Theyre beautiful and most very frustrating. I mean, we dont really know much about them. Theyre still a bit mystery. And whats happening here . Yeah, im just just said something that i personally think shouldnt be happening anymore. But do i understand that people say like, say, shopping is not really interested in our tradition. They just take the pictures, put some traumatic music over it and just show their blogs and the see, but they dont explain for tradition. Can you understand that . Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Theyve been doing it for so many years. It is the transition for them. Thats what theyve been doing to survive as well. Whats the problem and our viewers that its not necessary anymore, goes on necessary suffering for the honorable Samuel Russell and his co workers tried to fill every whale hunt with drones. The footage shows the animals dont even have a fighting chance. Like one of the maybe worse things is to chase before the actual hans can take hours and they state themselves that the way they do that facing is by creating kind of like a sound well behind them. And this is designed to frighten the animals in a certain direction because you can see the way theyre swimming now isnt it isnt casual anymore. So at this point theyre, theyre, theyre running away, right . Theyre, theyre in, in, in fear. And theyre swimming very, very fast way fast, and then they would be out on open waters. No chance to stay for the other ones. No, theres a wall behind them and theres like land on the site. So theres only one waiting on a path to a lead to date in the you off to hear the argument while were killed because we need from me. Is it always true that the eat, the whole animal or the most of it . I would say um, you dont know what happens is, i mean afterwards. So do they use a little bit . They keep it, but at least from what we saw, they did take most of it. But they do is they basically opened the animals and they take the largest pieces of meat off. Yeah. Theyre easily accessible just onto the floor. And many of them leave the rest back to show me the place where you think theyve done. Uh, the bodies. Oh wow. Yeah, absolutely. Lets go. They check the lug nuts on the car before we leave. Theyre afraid of most sabotage. We drive north to a steep gorge the awhile here to slide down into the water and the waves. Distribute the find a lot of the activists to the school teach in a different gorge. Its supposedly from 2022 and proves the fairways dont use all parts of the dead animals. I cant get too upset about it. We do the same with all the animals. If you go to the supermarket, what i do by all means youre checking your beef whatsoever. These are behind roles killings. If we do it. Absolutely. So can you follow this, this argument a little bit . They are very correct, very, very right. Those on it was they had a good life before the most of the he does the society, all different people. If they didnt, they were just raise to be killed. We dont see thats what they do is either we think its very wrong. So what is the solution that everybody stops it to me . Well, the ideally, but its all really possible its, i would say its so difficult problem, but i dont, you wouldnt have to that would be the ideal solution. The activists have been coming here for years and believe attitudes of slowly changing. They claim some sarah ways are also against wailing, but that many of them dont this become. So when people reach out to me and say that theyre against the grins, but they cant speak about it because they will do side their business or are they will have a struggle in social situations. And thats also like the side of it where we want to kind of read on surprise by what samuel says that perhaps not everyone on the island supports the pilot while hunt but many fairways dont want to be criticized from outside is why i find someone who might know the really good, good, good to me through it. Its krista and theyre good to get us do. Said with a very good this is to do a scarlet piece. Considered a colorful character on these for most islands. He was an actor and generalist. And this know a politician and broken train when you describe a typical of a man or woman, how would you describe well, its a, its a person who likes freedom. When i was a young way i was visiting my most of my grandmother in the solenoid instead of my life. I remember one the one day one morning i was sitting at the Kitchen Table listening to the radio on the she was saying the words, the word, the word this a bad place as indicating say between the lines. Its so good to be not part of thats where were in the federal why thats were were outside the the pharaoh islands officially belonged to denmark, a but i realized early that for the pharaoh ways the kingdom is far away. The islands have been largely o tournament since 1948 over 5 years. This office . Yes. Minister of finance. Minister of foreign affairs. The pharaoh ways have faced repeated criticism for a hunting pilot whales, including by the e. U, which prohibits the hunting of dolphins through various species protection agreements. Just one of the reasons the fairways decided not to join the you. What is your opinion to whats the tradition of for or against the gym in the truck . I, i must be see a lifetime for because ive, ive participated with account. I have killed several ways. So they live, they free lives in the ocean, and then theyre driven into sure, im the 1st thing they meet at this sharpe is. This allows with cubes 10 minutes and then theyre done. Of course there is suffering because theyve driven to the shore and they get distressed press. But you have to compare with how you get to meet. Otherwise, you have to compare it with take stuff to imprison their whole life that live a life with only one person coming from for people. When you compare that to killing of pilots with the pilots, with killing witness, and then you compare my do you think you can take me to the drop . The one that was here today . Yeah, thats a sarcastic response. He knows perfectly well that its um, likely there will be a hunt today. It can take days or weeks before the animals are supposed to in the atlantic. Someone will have to coolest when one starts witnessing one well here on the islands would be in a normal stroke of luck. And id have to know the right people. Young men are apparently particularly keen on hunting. I look for clues and then down the middle faced with a group of young ro is hired as while one will become a key figure. Thats why they train with wouldnt rolling boats and race village against the village on open water throughout the summer. Or we do starks is like what like 6060 strokes from one to 60 strokes for a minute. I was on the rowing machine in the hotel this morning. This was going to move and i saw the display and i had like 20 no they allow me to accompany them anyway. Rolling is too hard to to, the wouldnt been, shes real caught. The smell of sweat these everywhere. But its fun. The fortunately they dont want to go out to sea with me. One of the ro is john roy, who are innocent. He seems to take rolling very seriously. So this is what we do 2 hours a day, or 2 months. The wooden boat is incredibly heavy. We can only get it out of the water if everyone helps. They used to go wailing in similar boats explains john roy, hes 18 and grew up in the village of good stuff. He works in a small museum nearby and we arrange to meet face. See you again, you do everything okay. Yeah. Yeah. He shows me the room most popular with tourists, the one with exhibitions about the whaling. This is my station where when we get bigger groups, oh, okay. And what are these . These are for waiting, right . These are these words, the ovals, life, those bish in a way of bluish heavy stuff. Now we use the hook, so they are hooked in the level and then theres a role they get beloved. And then this one is the the, yeah, thats used for killing gwen. Mm hm. It is very simple. Its very, its way more humane than the nice me, what makes it more humane . When you get to the right spot, this goes into britain and it goes very deep. So youll see for a quick death. Yeah, its about 2 seconds. Mm hm. One or 2 seconds. So its very quick and you dont have to license yet, right now. They want to do it less than just because some people listen to shepherd or outside the world and then the other half, which is very stubborn. I think im a part of that half. I hope decision lives on a couple of the dish. I dont say that, but it doesnt. We ask john roy if we can meet his family. His mother doesnt want to be filmed, but hes father john and hes older sister laura agree . The john even cooks for us. Well, meat and potatoes, the looks delicious. One of our short, the songs got very mouth and, and okay, im touched by the hospitality, but ive also read that the meat is full of toxic substances. I still want to try it to understand why its so important to them. Its really like beef. Its a bit and i think yeah, im surprised. How do you need to know because before i go 10 years back tooth actually. I dont want to change. I dont know which of the and the pin reports that the way me, thats american read or you can find that great the, theres a guy you under your think about it all and i think its just its, its about it whos think about a lot of people have tired older than 10 years old. I dont see the problem is what type of law should be no problem. Mm. So how dangerous he is . Well, me, at least one person on the pharaoh islands says it should have been off the menu for a long time. Pulled by hay is something of a medical luminary. He at least discovered that oil meat is toxic because its full mercury. So much so that hes even detected in breast milk. So what is the difference between a private way lead me to a medically concentration will be 100. 00 times low of 100. 00 times . Yeah, thats a big difference. Or the muscles in fast as pilot whales contains lots of mercury and of the toxins. Because the animals are at the top of the food chain, where it accumulates, poll says eating, it is particularly dangerous for pregnant women. They post the poisons onto their unborn children. Full and his team has been studying the contamination extensively since the 19 eighties and what could happen with the highest colors of mockery. Itd be see it on the, on us of just going to be highly expos group. Im not doing as well in their development. So that way you can not go out there then for all you are highly exposed because you have a really year. So something some research is suspect eating too much, well may contribute parkinsons disease. I will meet once whole, very often when he was young. Can you tell the difference . Lets do a test. As a homestyle has worked with pull for years, all she needs is a few has. So i assume you stopped a thing where me. Long time. I told you the fair lot on my side. Theres a spring, im really curious to see the results of the mercury test. Kind of, im already starting to think about what i wait and late leaving this side. The silver 75. This is high, low. I have no idea. Its low, its low. I how is it double of yours . That will be quite no more of a refund. What. What is the highest, do you have a message for . Fall 2. 0 wow. Okay, 2 sites to be so we talk to them people, we advice them gentl