Parasailing Paradise Short Story

On the Captain’s order, the oiler rows the boat directly toward the shore. The boat capsizes and the people on the boat are so weak that it is hard for them to even keep their heads above water.

“We walked down to the water’s edge, and this one poor dolphin… You could see it trying to get away.”

Have you ever gone parasailing? Well, I have it was honestly the scariest most thrilling thing I have ever done. I got onto the boat to get to the bigger bout and I thought a shark was going to attack me, or I was going to drown. My heart was beating at least 200 beats per second.

The captain and his crew battled for hours to get out of the storm. At one point it seemed as if they would make it. Then they heard a sickening crunch; the ship had hit treacherous rocks and began to sink. As the ship plunged downwards, Captain VanderDecken

25. “And there’s another similarity, too: it takes us a while to get our sea legs.” (Pg. 200) “Sea legs” are an idiom because people don’t often identify learning how to learn to live in space as achieve their sea

[fact]In countries outside the EU, dolphins live in conditions that make Attica (prison) seem like paradise. In September Ric O'Barry, former trainer of the TV dolphin Flipper, travelled with a animal welfare and conservation group to Turkey to help save two dolphins. At an unlicensed park in Hisaronu, on the Aegean, O’ Barry and others found Tom and Misha, two bottlenose dolphins, bobbing around in a stinking soup of excrement, rotting fish and worms, in a pool measuring 19 metres by 12 and just 4 metres deep. The owner bought the two dolphins and would charge 55 Euros for ten minute swims with the dolphins. Marine aquatic shows are suppose to be a source of knowledge not entertainment. Marine parks were made to conserve and help animals.

No one slept for three days, everyone on board assisting in keeping the boat upright. By September 11, George Ashby told the captain the obvious fact that we were taking on water. Many more labourers were sent down to fuel the boat as we tried to regain control but it did little to help. Water was slowly rising and all non-fuel workers were told to start bucketing out water. The cold sea continued to engulf our previously sturdy ship.

All of the sudden, the water began to ripple around the boat. “What was that?” They both said.

The dolphin wasn’t swimming at all. It was actually riding on a cushion of water. The ship, as it moved through the ocean, pushed a wave of water ahead of it, and the dolphin was riding that wave.

More than twenty thousand dolphins are killed each year in Japan for their meat. Japanese “drive hunts” are the biggest single slaughter of whales and dolphins in the world. When Louie Psihoyos presented his documentary The Cove at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, the audience was shocked. Most of them had never heard of the Taiji dolphin problem, and even more had likely never witnessed it. Psihoyos (2009) and the rest of his crew had wanted to show the world what was happening to bring awareness to this problem and they did just that.

The Cove is a documentary directed by Louie Psihoyos that shines a light on the mass dolphin killings and cruel fishing practices taking place in Taiji, Japan. The film is meant to bring awareness to the people of the world about what is really taking place in this small Japanese town and to oppose dolphin captivity and unnecessary killing. Throughout the film, we are shown how smart and intelligent dolphins really are. For example, in the section “Talk to Each Other”, researchers explain how dolphins are self-aware creatures and can learn at rates that even some humans cannot. Prior to this film, many people are ignorant to the intelligence of dolphins and it is now known that these unique animals are being senselessly slaughtered in efforts to make profits off of their fresh meat and for the entertainment of human beings for shorts amounts of time. (Psihoyos).

Bottlenose Dolphins By: Eve Lingard & Lilly Peebles Period 4- O'brien & Period 1- Prosser Mount Baker Middle School June 1, 2017 Abstract

While exploring the intriguing domain, I stared wide-eyed in the dim rooms, my face was illuminated by the glowing tanks while fish and other marine life gawked at me. It was as if they wanted me to join them or aid them to escape their aquatic prison. It was depressing to be so close to them, to be only separated by glass, but unable to save them. Many animals could have been violently captured from their homes with no hope of ever being reunited with their true families. The stress of hearing to kids crying, people clapping, loud music,

“Ung I’m so bored!” I said as we waited for the Banana Boat to come and pick us up.

The so-called ‘fisherman’ (a select few) work in unison with wildlife park trainers who would inspect the dolphins personally and chose the one’s that are ‘pretty’ and are able to follow given directions for certain tricks to live their lives in captivity. Which subsequently is just as much as the same fate as their fellow porpoises. The hunters use specific ‘equipment’ when dealing with these animals, banger poles are used to strike against the boat to drive the