It's Friday: "The Cove" Looks to Save the Dolphins

"The Cove" is a documentary starring Richard O'Barry, the man who trained the dolphins who starred on televisions "Flipper."



That show essentially spawned Sea World and countless other aquariums around the world where dolphins perform stunts and interact with human beings, and O’Barry is now spending the rest of his life trying to make it up to our cetacean friends.

Dolphins, the big beautful dolphins that swim gracefully along the beaches, are still slaughtered by the hundreds off the coast of Japan.

...between September and March off the coast of Japan; they’re lured into a cove, and those that aren’t sold off to trainers are butchered.

What makes “The Cove” so powerful is that it’s not just an ecological horror show — it’s a real-life thriller that’s as suspenseful as anything cooked up by Hollywood. The perpetrators of the dolphin capture do everything possible to keep onlookers away, so director Louis Psihoyos and his team are forced to go rogue, submerging underwater microphones in the middle of the night, hiding hi-def cameras inside fake rocks created by Industrial Light and Magic, and risking their lives to show the world what’s happening in this isolated cove.

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