Is there a post about dolphins that encircled swimmers in NZ

[livinbella]

There was a great white shark in the area.
I cannot find the article anywhere.

[KurtNYC]

1. yes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4034383.stm

Researchers have said they are not surprised. A marine biologist insisted that dolphins, which are considered to be one of the most intelligent mammals, "like to help the helpless".

So? Dolphin think we're helpless?! ;-)


more at:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nz+shark+dolphin+swimmers&btnG=Google+Search

[livinbella]

2. I appreciate it!

[Cuban_Liberal]

3. What a COOL story!

:D

[livinbella]

7. That is one of the coolest stories I have ever seen

[Lucky Luciano]

6. LOL

It is good to see the left wing dolphins protecting the swimmers from the Freeper sharks!

[Cheswick2.0]

4. I remember how people here screamed bloody murder

when Elian Gonzales said the same thing about dolphins protecting him.

[fob]

5. Miami Dolphins?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. Please......

....they can't even protect their quarterback.

[livinbella]

8. I never heard that story. What happened?

[KamaAina]

14. Urban legend. What were around him were dolphin fish (mahi mahi).

Remeber Donato Dalrymple, the Mad Fisherman of Poughkeepsie (seriously)? Well, even he wasn't crazy enough to be out there fishing for Flipper! It must have been for the dolphin fish. I remember being seriously confused when I saw "dolphin" on a menu in Florida many years ago. It is a food fish now more commonly known as mahi mahi or dorado.

http://www.suck.com/fish/2000/05/02/fish.html

(scroll WAY down or search for 'dolphin')

Heya,

In a recent "suck" story you
wrote:

Donato Dalrymple, who won
fame as one of Elian's
fisherman/rescuers and is now
immortalized as the guy in
the closet, saw Mahi Mahi -
not dolphins - near Elian's
inner tube. Nevertheless,
when presented with a good
story opportunity, Dalrymple
proved ready to disbelieve
his own two eyes. "I would
like to believe that God used
the dolphins as an instrument
to keep him safe in the
water," he told the AP
reporter.

Just to let you know: Another
name for Mahi Mahi is
dolphin. I don't know if this
is just a regional/Florida
oddity, but it's true. Check
it out. Nice article though.

Reed Beaubouef
<[e-mail]>

I've been hearing that whole
dolphin fish/dolphin mammal
thing all my life, and it
still makes no sense. The
dolphinfish, or Mahi Mahi, is
a fish served in finer
restaurants. The dolphins in
the Elián mural are
mammals like Pha and Be from
The Day of the Dolphin. It's
the mammal version that
Dalrymple conceded he did not
see. Rest easy, Mr.
Beaubouef, if that is your
real name. Nobody's eating
Flipper out there, and if
they are they shouldn't be
allowed in this country!

Yr pal,

BarTel





Nice bit about the
Elian-protected-by-dolphin's
story. One complicating
detail: "Mahi Mahi" is one of
the several names for a large
game fish which was for years
called "Dolphin" (and still
is by many)-- late-20th C.
fetishization of Flipper made
a distinction necessary for
anybody in the U.S. who
wanted to sell the fish w/o
being labeled a monster. The
exotic Polynesian name of the
fish has become vogue (the
other common one is "dorado")
but "dolphin" is still in
circulation -- hence the
illustrator may have been
more actively misconstruing
than the fisherman.

Not that this makes the
symbology any less
overwritten. We're just lucky
this didn't unfold around
Christmas.

Bill Tipper
<[e-mail]>

I think this is pretty close
to what actually happened.
The official story is that
the fishermen were out
tracking Mahi Mahi, or
Dolphinfish. From there the
artist picked up the dolphin
business, and then Dalrymple
reverse engineered that,
believing that even if he
hadn't seen dolphins (the
mammal/Flipper variety that
is), they still could have
been there. Thus a legend is
born. There's a similar story
about the sculpture of Moses
with horns on his head —
based on a mistranslation of
something in the Bible —
which became a standard
figure of Moses even though
it was based on an error.
Sigmund Freud said something
about it. Something
intriguing, no doubt.

Yr pal,

BarTel

[evolvenow]

9. Here it is! http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=277449

Dolphins have been saving humans for centuries. It is time we began protecting them with the same unconditional love they offer us.
Dolphins are extraordinary!

[havocmom]

11. Had a classmate in elementary school who was saved by a dolphin.

Got bounced out of a speed boat, whacked her head, knocked unconscious, adults were facing front and didn't see it. She came-too on the rocks at the jetty, dolphin in water keeping watch til humans noticed and got her. She had oval, dolphin shaped bruises where the good critter kept pushing her up to the surface and over to Terra Firma.

Sometimes, your guardian angel has flippers and a really big nose! LOL

[evolvenow]

10. Dolphin communities contain the template for evolved behaviour!

Dolphins communicate all information to all members of their pod, they must to survive in an environment filled with sharks, which are opportunistic feeders. Sound familar? When you swim with wild dolphins, you become a part of the pod. Their sonar allows them to "see" through bodies, sensitive beyond belief, they can track if there are sharks, if someone has a disability, it someone is pregnant, children...they value life, and can defend by circling the most vulnerable in the center, swimming rapidly, the slaps are warnings. I have a friend who was saved from a hammerhead shark by a dolphin. Really fascinating. Show how essential DU, communicating all information to as many as possible to life in safety.

[RebelOne]

12. And there was also a follow-up story where some of the dolphins

were found hacked to death. I don't have a link, but it was on Drudge Report and other news outlets. You could always do a search.