The Spectacular Dolphins Facing Extinction and Some of the Amazing Dive Sites to See Them
These beautiful, playful and intelligent animals will surely bring a smile to your face.
It is the nature of dolphins to help each other in times of need. When one of its members is weak or injured, the school of dolphins will stand guard on it. A new born calf will be taken care of by its mother as it learns to swim and breath. What about us? Do we take care of our own? Or do we abandon them, put the weak aside and carry on with our lives like the weak and old do not exist?
Dolphin are mammals . The mothers nurse their calves with milk. Their lungs are very much like humans, they have to use the blowholes on the top of their heads to breath.
Dolphins are considered to be amongst the most intelligent of animals. Their often friendly appearance and seemingly playful attitude have made them very popular.
Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises and there are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. Dolphins eat mainly fish and squid.
Sataya/Dolphin Reef located in Egypt, Red sea is good dive site to see dolphins swimming in the wild.
Crash Boat is the name of a beach in the town of Aguadilla, North West of the Island of Puerto Rico, where dolphins have been sighted as well.
Bohol or Palawan (Philippines) is a good place to dolphin-watch or if you want to get yourself immersed, Sunken Island South (Philippines) is another excellent dive site to catch the dolphins.
UK, the Isles of Scilly, is another popular scuba diving site to view dolphins.
Another site where abundant dolphins are sighted is at Isla del Cano, Costa Rica.
The Bottlenose Dolphins have been given the nickname of “Man’s best friend of the sea”. In November 2004, four lifeguards were swimming 100m (328 ft) off the coast near Whangarei, New Zealand, were approached by a 3m (10 ft) Great White Shark. A group of Bottlenose Dolphins tightly surrounded the lifeguards for forty minutes as they returned to shore safely, preventing a shark attack.
Since 1847, a pod of Bottlenose dolphins in the town of Laguna in south Brazil, is know to drive fish towards fishermen who stand at the beach in shallow waters. When one dolphin rolls over, the fishermen take it as a sign to throw out their nets. The dolphins then feed on the escaping fish. There have been other reports in Africa with similar fisheries.
The common dolphin has been haunted off the coast of Peru as food and shark bait! After all the care dolphins have shown to man when he is trouble out in the open seas, this is the reward that we show to them.
Dolphins have been observed to enjoy play time. Here dolphins are seen surfing at Snapper Rocks, Queensland, Australia.
The Spinner Dolphin is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which they will spin longitudinally along their axis as they leap through the air.
Dolphins have also been used for therapeutic purposes from psychological problems, developmental disabilities, and mild to moderate depression.
Need a dolphin hug?
An encounter with these magical animals, will surely bring a smile even from the jaded.
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19 Responses to “The Spectacular Dolphins Facing Extinction and Some of the Amazing Dive Sites to See Them”
On June 3, 2008 at 1:54 am
Very good article Rachel. Thanks. The picture of the dolphins with their stomachs split made me sick. We humans are really the real weapon of mass destruction.
On June 3, 2008 at 1:59 am
Nice one. I don’t really get the ’shark bait’ explanation though…
could you elaborate some?
On June 3, 2008 at 8:21 am
Hi Rana,
Thanks for your support. Sorry to put that ‘bloody’ picture in… we have to see the cause of what we are doing.
Jotter, these dolphins are hunted for as food for our consumption and their flesh is also used as shark bait… yep, to lure the sharks in and then capture these sharks for their expensive but ‘useless’ fins for a delicacy in shark fins soup!
On June 3, 2008 at 9:10 am
Great article Rachel! I have always loved dolphins. We saw a pod of dolphins swimming alongside our cruise ship off the coast of Mexico last October. It was fun to watch them leap out of the water and swim alongside the ship! Pictures didn’t turn out to good though, they looked so small from up high.
On June 3, 2008 at 9:43 am
Hi Christy,
Thank you.
These dolphins sometimes come too close to the propellers and get themselves injured. They are a playful lot!
On June 3, 2008 at 10:32 am
Great article Rachel as always,but I did not enjoy seeing all those dead dolphins. They are amazing creatures and have been known to help people in distress whilst out at sea time and time again, it’s a pity that humans are so distructive of everything that is good.
On June 3, 2008 at 10:39 am
Hi Carmen
I am sorry to cause distress to you with that ‘bloody’ photo… but it is a reality… we have to know that we are upsetting the balance of life on earth if we continue the way we are behaving! Our future generation will have to pay dearly for it
On June 3, 2008 at 7:07 pm
They are truely beautiful.
On June 3, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Hi Ruby,
I love their natural ’smile’
On June 3, 2008 at 11:09 pm
This is wonderful. I love dolphins. Great article about them. And it seems no animal is safe from being hunted.
Got photo’s.
On June 4, 2008 at 5:13 am
Namaste young one. Way to go! Another great article and as always very well layed out with lots of great information.This girls going to be staying at the top with great articals like this. Keep it up Rachel. MoreMore More.
On June 4, 2008 at 6:31 am
Hi Marie
Thank you for your support. Glad you enjoyed it
The Quail, you have always been so encouraging and generous with your praises! Thank you.
On June 4, 2008 at 9:24 pm
nice article, you can also swim and play with dolphins in Subic Bay, Philippines,thanks
On June 5, 2008 at 12:21 am
Hi Nobert,
Thanks for that extra info
Glad you liked the article.
On June 6, 2008 at 12:23 am
You sure did put up a super article! Dolphins are amazing and wonderful, very healing gently mammal…I hate to see what happened in the photo to the Dolphins although I take heart in that this is happening less as it is being more closely monitored!
On June 6, 2008 at 1:35 am
Hi Francie,
Thank goodness for legislation and reinforcement… the hunt for money causes a lot of harm…
Thanks for your support.
On February 8, 2009 at 11:32 pm
People in the Coast of Peru have no education background whatsoever. I think they need to have an additional subject in their education on how to take care of the planet and living things in it.
On June 10, 2009 at 8:42 pm
very good article good pictures except for that bloody one
On June 24, 2009 at 9:46 am
We all need to be more responsible how we use our resources. We have to spread the word out and follow it with our actions – all talk without any change of behaviour makes us all more guilty!
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