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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanJun 8, 09 Comments Off
 dolphin-training Good evening friends, how did your Monday go??? Mine actually went very fast. I did something new at work today, I saved a hundred plus long spined sea urchins from certain death. Let me explain. We don’t want the dolphins and especially the babies getting sea urchin spines stuck in them so from time to time they need to be removed from the lagoons. These urchins are hiding all along the edges of the water in the rocks and many right out in the open just waiting for a curious baby dolphin to come over and stick their nose into one. Other than getting stuck or poked by these spines they are not dangerous at all but just for safety sake we want them out. So what I did today was get my dive gear on, grabbed a bucket and in I went. Aimee and Carina told me to use a snorkel as a tool for prying them off the rocks and that ended up working great. I dove under, laid the bucket on it’s side and started pulling them off the rocks one by one until the bucket was full. I then brought the bucket to the surface and a friend helped carry them over to the open ocean and let them go, I think it worked pretty well. I noticed once I started pulling them off the rocks they all sensed danger and started retreating back into their caves, I had to work fast. I did break some of their long spines doing this but it’s better than the fate they had otherwise.
This is baby Pasku again getting better and better at learning how to use a target pole. The trainer “Junior” holds the stick out over the water and Pasku is supposed to come up out the water and touch it with his nose. If he does this correctly he will get a fish, it’s positive reinforcement at it’s best! Well, he is still a baby and is not very coordinated yet but as you can see is doing a pretty darn good job, he seems to have no fear at all just like his mamma Tela. This was a pretty hard picture to get, I had to hold onto the top of Juniors head with one hand and hold the camera and shoot with the other while standing on a floating blue platform.
We just got home from checking on and feeding the baby puppies again, they were very hungry and really thirsty but they are all doing well. We really hate to leave them out there much longer if you know of anyone looking for a cute little dog let us know ASAP.
That’s all, talk to you tomorrow, Barry
06-08-2009
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