International Commission Of Jurists Review

Anyone who’s ever seen a live dolphin show has marveled at the intelligence and playfulness of the seemingly happy animals. But according to former dolphin trainer and current activist, Ric O’Barry, “the dolphin’s smile is nature’s greatest deception.” While dolphins perform and audiences cheer, the captive animals, who are incredibly sensitive to sound, are suffering unimaginable agony and stress. Ric O’Barry should know.

Ric O'Barry and the Rise of the Dolphin Industry

When O’Barry helped create the Flipper TV series in the 1960s, he had no idea he would be setting into motion events that would help turn the dolphin and marine park industries into billion dollar businesses and result in the deaths of thousands of animals each year. Over the course of the series O’Barry helped to capture and train five dolphins, animals he adored. It wasn’t until the apparent suicide of Cathy, one of the dolphins featured in the series, that the guilt-ridden trainer was prompted to change his ways. In 1970 he founded the Dolphin Project to raise public awareness about dolphin captivity, and to free as many as possible. Since then he has worked tirelessly to put an end to the industry he helped create. While certainly not personally responsible, O’Barry is overwhelmingly remorseful and full of regret.

Which brings us to The Cove, a chilling documentary about a group of activists led by O’Barry, determined to expose the brutal dolphin slaughter that takes place over several months every year in Japan.

Filmmakers Expose Taiji’s Dirty Secret

In a beautiful, but remote lagoon off the coast of Taiji, lies a murderous secret that the Japanese whaling industry and government are determined to keep under wraps.

Surrounded by barbed wire and “Keep Out” signs, is a hidden cove where some 23,000 dolphins are slaughtered each year. This horrific spectacle, carefully hidden from public view, takes place in this scenic coastal town that, ironically, promotes itself as a paradise for whale and porpoise watching.

The killing begins with an artificial wall of sound created to lure migrating dolphins to the cove by confusing them and leaving them disoriented. As the sound becomes unbearable, they literally swim for their lives trying to escape it, and are then sealed by nets in the small inlet. The footage of hundreds of animals racing to escape the horror only to get trapped in the place they’ll be murdered is heartbreaking.

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