Comments on: Swimming with Dolphins – a Dream come true?

By: Kim K

Kim K — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:26:20 +0000

I found this book that has all the location where you can swim with dolphins in the wild. It is called Swimming with Dolphins in Paradise; A guide to professional wild dolphin swims. I saw it on ebay. It is a early release edition for christmas. I am going to buy it cuz i have searched forever for a book on it with pics and stuff. now i finally found one. It looks sooooo awseome. I swam with dolphins in panama city florida once it was so cool. I can not wait to read this book. Anyways it has like prices, locations, and a whole bunch of other stuff in it. i put the website in my website box it’s on ebay or swimwithdolphins.moogo.com so. Hope that helps someone else out too!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:43:35 +0000

Swimming with the Dolphins?

Try Swimming with Whalesharks in Donsol, Sorsogon in the Philippines. That’s what I am talking about.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:32:55 +0000

All the best for your Dolphin trips, Michelle and Adri. As much as I agree to better support the locals with their boat trips; even those are quite commercial already – you have sometimes 20 or more boats chasing the few dolphins. On the other hand, even Melca is providing jobs for locals to feed and take care of the dolphins and their other animals. Hard to say, which one is better.

By: Adri

Adri — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:48:31 +0000

I love dolphins! Eventhough I dont get opportunity to swim with dolphins (not yet), am happy enough to see them from the boat (many times we saw them during the diving trips). I think Melca is just too commercial and money oritented, I have no interest to go there. If I want to, I prefer take a dolphins watching trip with local people and their tradional boats, just to support local people in Lovina.

For dolphins lover, check this out: http://www.takepart.com/thecove/

Cheers,

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:30:28 +0000

flying to bali later this year cant wait to swim with the dolphins.has always been a life long dream…

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:25:40 +0000

nana, glad you liked it. Just not so sure about Jehovah – what do you think would Buddha, Allah, Shiva, Ganesh, Tao, Adonai, Nitzsche, Darwin and all the others have said about that?

By: nana

nana — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:58:34 +0000

hey my name is nana. I am a dolphin lover, and yes my dream come true… I swam with the dolphins in Melka Bali, that was an unforgetable experience. Amazing… U can touch its body n swim with them… and the dolphins watching trip also wonderful… Unfortunately the sky was cloudy so the I only saw the dolphins once, but another amazing experience there was a huge whale showed up its body… Amazing… That’s Jehovah’s creation, thax to Jehovah God for all the good things we have

By: michel

michel — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:20:59 +0000

the optimal would be a center in open spaces with let say a jetty where the conditioned dolphins to get fed, would be fed. then put the people in the water and it is up to the dolphins to make their choices.
of course it is still up to cash flow to keep that running.

i know here in bali the perfect place for that, but then again the business involved with making money out of these dolphins would object.

unless a legislation makes it illegal it will not stop, simply because it is money making.

on the grand scale of what is happening to the ocean and the earth in general it is very minor, but in the realm of values then it becomes a important issue.

just a point in a million other issues to consider.

but you have to start somewhere, otherwise it becomes chemical mental masturbation(nothing wrong with that but just to call a apple an apple)

my intuition tells me it is wrong. my intellect argues in a endless back and forth.

up to the individual to see where he stands.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:56:47 +0000

You’ve got a good point here, michel. Myself, I’m a bit split between both extremes. Of course, putting dolphins in a cage is not the natural way of letting them live their lives. But then, plenty of children have no chance anymore of seeing dolphins in their natural habitat and even that is commercially exploited (i.e. the Bali dolphin tours in the north, 15 boats chasing a few dolphins).

So how to show children and adults the fragility of the ecosystem in concrete examples? In my view it can help to show them the agility and beauty of dolphins in a closed environment, if they are treated well and not stressed out. I’m not sure, if that is the case in the above resort, probably not. Yes, there are successful whale watching tours in the world, which are even commercially successful and follow whales in their natural habitat, but where to draw the line?

And how about whales or dolphins beached on a shore, should we let them die or trying to put them back into the water? Isn’t that tempering with mother nature as well? Sorry, I only have questions as well, but who has the answers?

By: michel

michel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:13:38 +0000

there is no good reason to keep dolphin in jail. it is like the first time you want to make love and you go to see a prostitute. and i have nothing against prostitute.
but the dolphins don’t choose.
you can argue that many are killed in the wild and so on, but for the one who want to swim with dolphins, they are places in the world that you can go to in the wild.
everything is for sale nowadays, and nothing compare to a experience with dolphins in the wild, even if you can’t touch them.
so please boycott these places, for you own sake.
these dolphins often perform because they are hungry.

michel