Today I want to talk about swimming with dolphins. This industry is very rich, and supposedly very fun as well. We will go on a cruise and my mom wanted to go swimming with dolphins. She said to me “Do you want to go swimming with dolphins,” and I stated that dolphins are depressed, mistreated, and stressed. She did some research the next day and found out many reasons why swimming with dolphins is bad. Now I will share with you some facts I found out.
Every year many dolphins die in Taiji, Japan. Boats go around an ocean cove and lead a pod of dolphins, using sound-paddles, toward the cove. Then they check the dolphins for good looks and send a couple around the world to dolphin swimming centers. They are the surviving ones as the other dolphins are slaughtered with spears. The hunters use the meat to make money. The small dolphins they spared to the companies pay them enough to hunt next season.
The dolphins the hunters spare live in small pools. Though they may look big to us, dolphins can dive up to 60 ft, making the pools way too small for the dolphins. They travel 128 km a day at max, so the pools are far, far, FAR too cramped. They are very depressed and stressed after learning the same routine over and over again. When the dolphins don’t do it correctly, they don’t let the dolphins eat until they do the whole routine. Consider this, dolphins were on the planet millions of years before us and some of us treat them as slaves.
Swimming with dolphins also can make you catch diseases and give the dolphin diseases. When you go in the water and swallow it, you have to think about how you will probably swallow pee as well. The thing is that dolphin’s pee alot and their waste is very salty and can contain germs. If you are sick, it works opposite. If you give sicknesses to the dolphins, they probably won’t survive because some sicknesses that you can easily win vs the dolphin could die from.
The dolphins can also go practically insane. Some dolphins are so sad and annoyed that they simply don’t take their next breath. Some don’t let their baby’s get air because they don’t want them to live their life. The dolphins usually are so stressed that they attack humans at random because they think humans are bad. Many people think dolphins are always happy, but that is just the way their mouths are shaped.
The National Aquarium has decided to move their dolphins to a sanctuary in the sea to make them have more space. I think all the places keeping dolphins should do this. This gives them more space to move along with a real environment. If they don’t do this, this problem will escalate. Because of what I learned, we decided to not swim with dolphins. I encourage you to visit The Dolphin Project website for more information and support the people who are trying to save the dolphins.
Here is the link to their website. https://www.dolphinproject.com/
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