Enthusiasm wins over danger. Primorye fishermen tempt their fate with winter fishing, despite the rise in temperature that came to the region.
Kseniya Kolchina will tell more.
The fishermen start running. They're running. The crack is getting bigger and bigger.
Warm weather in Vladivostok doesn't make fishermen happy. The ice over the Amur Bay and the Ussuri Bay began cracking. Fishing on the frozen sea is now more dangerous. This video shows a miraculous salvation. The fishermen managed to jump off a separated piece of ice. These guys came to fish. The crack is moving.
People usually don't manage to save their cars. The Kovrizhka island is called the "island of sunken SUVs". They say that fishing is exceptional near this tiny piece of land. There are so many cars that the whole bay is full of tire marks, might as well add road markings. Each of such cars weighs around two tons. Just imagine the load on the ice and the extent of the risk the fishermen take.
Their enthusiasm is that big that they aren't scared of going down together with what they caught.
A fisherman: "Some car passed where the crack is, and broke the edge. Ice is less resistant now. If you go on the second or third car, you can have troubles".
That's why the Primorye authorities decided to take extreme measures, to introduce a monetary fine for driving on ice.
Leonid Makovetsky, the State Inspection of Small Vessels main inspector: "The amendment to the Primorsky Krai laws went through the first reading, an amendment to the administrative offenses code, which is about punishing drivers for driving on ice".
Ice won't become more resistant this week. The Primorsky Krai is waiting for a number of cyclones. The forecast isn't favorable overnight into Thursday.
Kseniya Kolchina, Denis Yunak, Vadim Telegin, Vesti News Far East Bureau.
