The great dolphin release

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Johnny, Rocky and Rambo were performers in the world’s last travelling dolphin circus and inside a Bali hotel swimming pool. This is the story of the fight to shut the circus down and the long journey to try to return the performing dolphins to the ocean. We hear why the world’s most famous dolphin trainer changed sides - playing a role instead in the fight for their freedom. It is the story of how Femke Den Haas, the Indonesian campaign director of the Dolphin Project, teamed up with former trainer Ric O'Barry.

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0:00.0	A speedboat zooms out across the bay. Everyone on board intensely scans the top of the water.
0:14.2	They're looking for fins or noses.
0:20.0	And then they stop and try and get a signal.
0:23.0	Activist Femkaden-Hass
0:28.0	is holding a tracker that's trying to connect to electronic tags.
0:33.0	They're on three precious bottlenose dolphins.
0:37.0	It's one hour after the release of the dolphins
0:41.0	and they sweat straight out of the bay and we are now doing the surfing and we got some
0:47.8	senior but we haven't traced yet. For the documentary on the BBC World Service, this is the Great Dolphin release.
1:10.0	I'm Rebecca Henski. Also here in Bali, monitoring Indonesia's first dolphin release is the world's
1:20.0	most famous dolphin trainer.
1:22.0	Hello, my name is Rick O'Barry, I'm a director and a founder of Dolphin Project.
1:30.0	He's now in his 80s, his messy mop of hair a striking white. As a young man, Rick helps set up the global trade in captive dolphins.
1:42.0	I got started it all. global trade in captive dolphins.
1:43.0	I got started in all of this at the Miami Sea Aquarium.
1:48.0	I went to work there when I got discharged from the Navy.
1:52.0	I was a diver on the when I got discharged from the Navy.
1:53.0	I was a diver on the capture boat,
1:56.2	and we were in Biscayne Bay off of Miami, Florida,
2:01.2	hunting dolphins. Golfins.
2:03.0	Facing the sparkling waters of the Florida Strait is the Miami Seaquarium, 60 acres of sea adventure.
2:10.0	Right now, the Seaquarium Star Attractions are a family of dolphins whose range of ability is truly remarkable.
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