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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Spotlight Goby-Gobiosoma louisaeNEWER POST:Curacao Diver with a Orange Elephant Ear SpongeMay 15, 09 Comments Off
 stationing-a-baby-dolphin Good evening all, ever wondered how they train baby dolphins?? It takes patience! And a lot of it! This is baby Pasku with our trainer Junior doing a pretty good job at what we call “stationing”. Stationing is done by getting the dolphins attention by putting your hands out over the water and getting them to stop what their doing and focus their attention on you, it’s like a dolphin stop sign. Once stationed like you see here a different hand signal is given and if done correctly they get a tasty fish. Now in baby Pasku’s case, he got a fish for just stopping long enough to look up at Junior, this was his first step and he did great. They usually take their little fish and swim off at top speed and then seconds later toss it in the air, playing with your food seems like way more fun than eating it? And usually if they play with it long enough one of the big snappers will grab it or a waiting frigate bird will dive down for a free meal leaving our little dolphin wondering were did my fish go??
I did a macro dive this morning, got some pretty cool shots but not really what I was hoping for. I swam by the new fish I found yesterday he was still there, this time I stopped and took a nice vertical shot, I like it more than the horizontal.
Not much else this evening, see you tomorrow, Barry
05-15-2009
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