Dolphins Living On The Na Pali Coast

Every morning on our tour, we start with an ocean life and safety briefing before we head out tothe Nā Pali Coast.

- Chris Turner

I find passengers are shocked again and again by the dolphin portion of the briefing, where I describe what was revealed in the movie The Cove. The movie was a shocking documentary about the dolphin trade, where rich corporations are funding the exploitation of dolphins for big-profit returns. These intelligent animals are inhumanely put into saltwater tanks to live, where as dolphins in the wild are pelagic creatures (e.g. they travel in family pods on migratory routes in the ocean’s deep scattering layer at night, and move back to shallow, coastal waters in the early mornings). Most would be appalled that dolphin exhibitions can fetch over $150,000.00 for a marine park show, and stunned to learn that the dolphins are often d