Feel Good Friday: 8 am on March 5, 2012. Idyllic blue ocean and ripples of surf. Suddenly, a pod of dolphins appear and beach themselves on this Brazilian coast. Watch the amazingly efficient rescue.
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Feel Good Friday: 8 am on March 5, 2012.
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Incredible, I’ve got mad respect for the beachgoers that made such quick work out of this and averting potential disaster. Thanks for sharing !
They seem so matter of fact about the whole thing. Wow.
That is the most amazing thing! They see the problem and they don’t have to think twice about going in there and taking care of it.
Moving my heart… Awesome! Beautiful!
Imagine trying to breathe and being dragged by your feet backward into the waves.
Who knew the efficient way to grab a dolphin was by its tail? 🙂
Rajini Rao Anybody that watched The Cove. 😉
I don’t think I have the stomach for that Bob Calder 😦
So calm, great footage
Rajini Rao The vet and neurologist and ethicist at the “Should Dolphins be Non-human Persons” talk put a clip of The Cove on (during AAAS – San Diego year before last) as a totally manipulative ploy and the audience wasn’t happy about it. That’s when Ray Speir asked them how they reconciled their views with the fact that as humans, we acknowledge only organisms that are eaten or which eat us. Much harumphing ensued.
I thought this non-human person status was very recent..just read about it. It’s been in the works for a couple of years?
Again, beyond moved… and yes, if someone thought of me enough to drag me by my fin back into the water of my life. I think, I believe, I know… I’d be grateful. I’d swim to the future! Blessings…
Wow. I am speechless!
This is wonderful! Great response by people at the beach.
Rajini Rao It has been around as long as people have been identifying animals’ behavior as human when they should have identified their own behavior as having origins outside of “humanity” in common with things like worms, ants, bees, and of course, mammals. But yeah. San Diego was the first since I have been attending in 2005 – that I know of anyway.
Bob Nguma , there was a similar case of the crowd stepping in to pull out a motorcyclist who crashed and slid under a burning car. Incredibly, they managed to lift up the car together and drag the young man out (he survived) before the ambulance arrived.
Put that way, Bob Calder , it is an interesting thought. We humans do have a tendency to equate any familiar behavior with “humanity”, come to think about it.
I found it striking to watch the cooperative behavior of these people intent on saving these animals.
I wondered, julie woods , if this has happened before. Perhaps it is a tricky area where tides can wash them in, and the locals have seen this before.
Pretty amazing! Happy ending 🙂
It has happened many times over the years, at hundreds of beaches. Some dolphin experts attribute it to illness within a pod. However, in this case, I think conditions were just right. The tide was right. The water depth was right. Possible they were pulled in by a rare kind of reverse rip tide that pulls one in, instead of dragging them out to see. I was fascinated by the contagious crowd behavior. I believe people were quite surprised, based on their body language. Scientists do believe that a type of “suicide” causes some dolphins and whales to beach themselves. I don’t think this was one of those cases, however. I believe the dolphins happened to be in the wrong place at the right time…depending on how you look at it. thank you for this, Rajini
nice yaar
i love dolphins
That is cool !!
Aww, the poor dolphins! i’m so glad they were rescued!
Superb….
Faith in humanity RESTORED
thats cool
hollo
Μπράβο!!! Σπουδαία δουλειά….
hello
hi gud morning dear
wonderful people
great job guys saved many lives
This is such a cool video! But why did that guy in the blue shorts have to take them off before getting in the water?! LOL Javaris Snell called him “Captain Underpants”
very good
wow
great work of the people, thanks for capturing the image
like
the great mankind thinking
kind hearted peoples
ummm nice………..
Awesome!!! Good work!
Gr8 job by locals
Why these dolphins behaved awkward ???
so nice
Very nice people. Appreciate them saving the creatures…
awww i love dolphins
hiiiiiiii frnd
Thrilling indeed! Thanks Rajini for sharing this.
great job! i liked the fact that they were so casual about it.
sooooooooooooooooooooooooo sweet
very nice………..
earnest antony because they are awkward dolphins duhhhh ! ! !
awesome raji , grt job by that people.
Wow very Nice….
That’s Called Humanity….
Very nice.
Heads Off….
humanity still remains in us
salute to those peoples for this great job
hmm
That is great!!!!
You are all amazing ❤
Awesome!
What a nice humanity video
Good people still exist. Greetings from europe 🙂
great job pleased to here that some people still care for wild life
I love how they help out! ♥
nice
Awwww. sooo glad they saved them
its very nice yar
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wiwwww ,,, amazing …
Nice Job
ha ha ha ha nice
hi
Patrick Spint Hello Patrick 🙂
good werk
Good people,respect!!!!
Ave cakmak, I agree ^ ^
Janet Cazares, yes it was indeed, that’s why I love this video so much! ♥
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+100 great rescue…
well Rajini Rao 2 more comments & my point will going to be proved
Local people are doing jobs like professionals
great thing count on humanity….
Wow, impressive!
it’s really true….!!!!
Very Nice & Happiest moment.
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