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Clips from The Cove (2009)

"When you just walk into this place and the music is playing,"
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"the dolphin is jumping and smiling,"
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"it's hard to see the problem."
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"But a dolphin's smile is nature's greatest deception."
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"It creates the illusion they're always happy."
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"And if you go to any one of these fish houses,"
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"you'll see bottles of Maalox and Tagamet."
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"because they're all stressed out."
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"to understand why captivity doesn't work."
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"In the wild, they're traveling 40 miles a day."
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"They could be surfing in one area in the morning,"
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"and the next hour they could be 25 miles away"
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"feeding or socializing."
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"Dolphins are acoustic creatures."
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"That's their primary sense."
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"The best sonar that man has"
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"is a toy compared to the dolphins' sonar."
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"They can see your heart beating."
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"They can see your bones."
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"They can see if you're pregnant."
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"when it first opened, dolphins were dying left and right."
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"and they finally figured out"
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"It's the stress that kills them."
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"So they're very sensitive to sound."
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"That's their primary sense,"
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"There's 12 of them."
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"what you're watching here."
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"There are migratory routes"
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"The boats then put these long poles in the water"
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"and they create a wall of sound which frightens the dolphins."
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"There were several hundred dolphins being driven ashore."
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"I'd never seen so many dolphins before,"
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"I think I can actually hear the banging,"
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"but I hear it all the time."
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"By the time they get to the lagoon,"
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"They seal it, then they go home."
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"The next morning,"
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"all of these dolphin trainers will be lined up"
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"They're looking for Flipper,"
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"and so they collect young females,"
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"just like we did for the Flipper show."
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"And they're flown to different parts of the world."
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"And she committed suicide in my arms."
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"That's a very strong word, suicide."
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"But you have to understand"
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"dolphins and other whales are not automatic air breathers,"
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"like we are."
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"Every breath they take is a conscious effort."
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"whenever life becomes too unbearable"
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"by not taking the next breath."
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"And it's in that context I use the word suicide."
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"She swam into my arms"
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"and looked me right in the eye"
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"and didn't take another one."
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"I just let her go,"
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"I was going to free every captive dolphin I could."
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"And I spent the last 35 years trying to tear it down."
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"In all of these captures,"
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"where they take the boats around to the secret cove"
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"that nobody could see where dolphins that weren't selected"
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"are slaughtered and sold for their meat."
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"Here in Taiji,"
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"you can go to the Whale Museum and watch the dolphin show"
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"They sell dolphin and whale meat right in the dolphinarium."
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"It's the captivity industry that keeps this slaughter going"
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"by rewarding the fishermen for their bad behavior."
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"but they can get more than $150,000 for a live show dolphin."
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"that we'll fix this, we'll change this."
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"because I really didn't know how we were going to do it."
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"World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace,"
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"International Fund for Animal Welfare."
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"They all make hundreds of millions of dollars between them."
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"This is the largest slaughter of dolphins in the world."
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"Where are they?"
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"There is one organization"
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"But for some reason,"
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"small cetaceans, dolphins and porpoises, aren't protected."
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"Dolphins are whales."
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"Size doesn't matter."
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"by any stretch of the imagination."
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"Mr. O'Barry, you know I'm here."
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"Yeah?"
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"I have to ask you to leave the hotel."
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"You could have waited till morning, but..."
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"Sir, I asked you very nicely to turn off your camera."
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"clearly has the best interest in leaving those out,"
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"Joji Marshita is the Deputy Commissioner for Whaling."
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"He's a talented guy from Japan with a real hard job to do."
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"and then he's got to go out"
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"and explain to the world Japan's whaling policy."
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"It's clear the issue of whaling"
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"is becoming more of emotions."
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"We have never had a convincing reason"
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"why this species is so special."
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"The International Whaling Commission"
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"that's officially recognized by the United Nations."
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"It's basically a toothless organization,"
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"Well, there's a clause"
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"in the International Whaling Convention"
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"that allows a nation to take whales for science,"
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"and Japan has decided that that's its loophole."
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"Currently, Japan has research programs"
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"that involve killing minke whales,"
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"fin whales, sei whales, and humpback whales."
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"Every scientific catch, to me,"
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"is a dark spot on the record of this commission."
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"They're not talking about"
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"the 23,000 over here being slaughtered."
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"The IWC has presided"
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"over one of the greatest"
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"The reality is the International Whaling Commission"
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"to look at issues affecting dolphins,"
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"that just about every country in the world has said no to."
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"but they never ever seem to accomplish anything."
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"never ever depend upon governments or institutions"
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"to solve any major problem."
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"If saving cetacean species from extinction"
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"relies upon the International Whaling Commission,"
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"then there is no hope."
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"it was punishable by death to harm a dolphin."
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