This weekend i watched a documentary on channel 4 called The Cove which is about the capture and slaughter of thousand of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. Ric O Barry the main activist in the film spent ten years of his life helping to build up the dolphin entertainment industry, most notably capturing and training the aquatic stars of 60s TV show Flipper. Ric has since spent 35 years trying to tear that same industry down due to seeing first hand the mental decline of Flipper when she was held in captivity. He has spent his life trying to rescue and protect dolphins from the lucrative dolphin entertainment trade.

The Cove gives an insight to how the dolphins are rounded up in nets and selected for the dolphin entrainment parks such as SEA WORLD and many others around the world. The dolphins which don’t make the grade are then moved into the bay for a barbaric, slow and painful death. The film isn’t very pleasant viewing as you would expect, the level of barbaric brutality is astounding and i can not help feel i need to play some sort of part to help the film makers and activists expose what is going on in Japan.  I cant for the life of me understand why anybody would slaughter dolphins. I have surfed alongside dolphins many times and when they come up close you get a real sense they are very intelligent and gentle mammals.

If you would like to play a role in stopping the inhumane trade in dolphins please watch the film and visit the websites below for further information.

The Cove Movie Website

http://www.thecovemovie.com/

The Cove Facebook (petition)

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/petitions/252?m=e3173521#sign

Drift Magazine (Interview with Ric O Barry)

http://www.driftsurfing.eu/index.php/archives/1454

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We have just had delivery of our new winter wetsuits, inside the boxes which arrived were the new 2011 Rip Curl E Bomb wetsuits.

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