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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Bottlenose Dolphins underwater in CuracaoNEWER POST:Diving with Dolphins in the Open Ocean, CuracaoFeb 11, 10 Comments Off
 Diving with Dolphins Good morning readers of the blog, how are you all this morning?? I am still limping on this knee, looks like it will still be another week and not sure any kind of lesson was learned from it. Yesterday was a busy day at work. I spent almost 2 hours underwater trying to get some dolphin photos by just holding my breath. There is nothing I have found that makes you more tired than holding your breath repeatedly for a long period of time, I even slept in till 6:30, I never do that!
Here’s another fun shot out in the open ocean of baby Pasku (front) and his mamma Tela. Zenzi is in the background, she had just jumped in from the boat and was on her way down. Many have again asked what I mean by “open ocean”. The Dolphin Academy is one of only 3 places in the World that takes their dolphins out into the wild ocean for a morning swim. There are no gates, no nets, no fences, no rock walls, nothing, it’s just us in a small Boston Whaler and the dolphins follow us out to a designated spot on the reef. Once out to our “parking spot” we tie the boat up, a diver/trainer as you see here jumps in and off they go to interact with a waiting group of divers. Once out the dolphins do what dolphins do, they play and hunt! They never go below 60 feet although they can dive to depths of over 1000 feet and stay under without a breath for 20 minutes. During this ocean swim the dolphins are not fed anything from the boat, they are there because they want to be there and we make it as fun for them as possible. After the dive the trainer will ascend back up to the boat with the dolphins following, climb in and then open a fish bucket and fully reward them for a job well done, cool huh?? Occasionally another boat will go by while they are out and our dolphins will surf the waves being created by the front of the boat and leap out of the water giving everyone a great show. They also love to surf the waves, it’s one of their favorite things to do. Tela seen here is one of our best fisherman!! She can and has caught just about everything including flounders and squid and eats them while out playing around and Pasku is right there as well learning everything from his mamma. For any of you wanting to see this yourself, and I highly recommend it, go to www.dolphin-academy.com or go to www.oceanencounters.com and click on Dolphin Boat Dives they can make it happen for you!!
That’s about it, a word to you guys out there, it’s almost Valentine’s forget this day and your dead meat!! Till tomorrow, Barry
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