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I do want to say that we
try to do the story legally.

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Shit.

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I thought of all the possibilities
of what could happen,

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and it kept me up at night.

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The story that Ric
showed me at the beginning

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was just the tip of the iceberg.

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Here it is... the town of Taiji.

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The little town
with a really big secret.

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It's funny driving into Taiji.

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It's kind of like The Twilight Zone.

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It's so bizarre

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because if you didn't know
what's going on over here,

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you would think this is a town
that loved dolphins and whales.

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On our left here is the infamous
Taiji Whale Museum.

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And I really, really
hate this place.

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When we first got to Japan,

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Ric O'Barry was incredibly frustrated.

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He said, "Oh, you have
to wear a mask.

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Otherwise, they'll know
that we're here."

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And I thought, okay, all right.

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There's the police.

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I've got to hunch over
and change my shape

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so they think
I'm just some old Japanese guy.

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I thought, you know, what am I doing?

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I went halfway across the world
to end up in this car,

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locked up with this paranoid guy.

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Somebody's behind me.

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I don't know who that is.

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Yep. He's coming. He's coming.

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Is he really?

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Yeah. I've been doing this too long.

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The mayor of this town
actually gave me the key to the city.

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I was welcome then.

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Today they'd kill me if they could.

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And I'm not exaggerating.

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If these fishermen could
catch me and kill me,

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they would.

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About three years ago,

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my friend Jim Clark and I
started this organization...

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The Oceanic Preservation Society, OPS.

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We've been diving for over 35 years,

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and you could go back to the same
dive spot year after year

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and literally see
the degradation of the oceans

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before your very eyes.

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There's major extinctions
going on right now in our lifetime.

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Jim had the idea

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to try to do something
about it, to stop this,

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so I began documenting
reefs around the world.

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I went to a marine mammal conference
down in San Diego.

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There was 2,000 of the world's
top marine mammal scientists,

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and Ric O'Barry was supposed
to be the keynote speaker,

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and at the last minute,

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the sponsor of the program
pulled him from the ticket.

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I thought, oh God, that's interesting.

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Well, who's the sponsor?

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They said, "Sea World."

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A lot of marine mammal
scientists get their money

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from Hub Research Institute,

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which is the nonprofit arm of Sea World.

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They don't like me.

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They don't like my message
about captivity,

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and they took me off the list.

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They wouldn't let me
talk about this dolphin slaughter in Taiji.

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I said, "Dolphin slaughter?
What's... What's that about?"

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He says, "Well, I'm going next week.

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You want to come?"

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Now we're approaching the area
that's most important.

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That's a dolphin's
worst nightmare right there.

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Hundreds of thousands
of dolphins have died there.

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You'll see the signs...
"Keep Out," "Danger."

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There are fishermen walking
around these hills with knives.

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This is a national park.

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The fishermen told me.

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They said, "If the world finds out
what goes on here,

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we'll be shut down."

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Can you imagine that?

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They actually told us that.

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We knew to get in there
and film exactly what happens.

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We need to know the truth.

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When we got back to the hotel...

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It's a big spa hotel,

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people going by in robes,

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and there's these three
undercover cops talking to Ric.

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No.

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No.

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- No.
- No?

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No.

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In the background,

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you could see these dolphin boats
going by in the window,

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and it was just... it was so surreal.

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I couldn't... I wanted to laugh,

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and I wanted to scream
at the same time.

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No. No.

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Right. I know.

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Yeah.

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I don't enter. No, no.

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Thank you so much, and...

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You're welcome.

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- See you again.
- Okay. Bye-bye.

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I never planned
on being an activist.

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One thing leads to another,

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and now if there's
a dolphin in trouble

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anywhere in the world,

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my phone will ring.

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Ric is world famous
for his work with dolphins.

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The first time I connected
with him in recent years

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was on a trip down to Nicaragua.

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There were two dolphins

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in a swimming pool filled
with their own excrement.

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Ric somehow enlisted
the military forces of Nicaragua.

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The dolphins were
put on a helicopter,

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and then out to sea we go,

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and the dolphins are released.

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We're going to capture these dolphins
out of the wild

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and bring them into captivity.

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There are people
who will set them free.

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In March of this year,

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O'Barry was arrested
three times in Florida

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for trying to free some captive dolphins.

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On Earth Day, he was
arrested for the same thing

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on the Island of Bimini.

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How many times
have you been arrested?

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This year?

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Swimmer, you're within
a government-authorized test area.

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You are holding up
a government project.

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Do you understand?

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God damn it.

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A dolphin in the right spot
can make a million dollars a year.

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There's a lot of money in it.

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If you get in their way...

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and I get in their way...

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it can be very, very dangerous.

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Jane Tipson, she was murdered.

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She's the second colleague
I've worked with that was murdered.

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The other one was Jenny May.

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We were trying to stop
the traffic in Russian dolphins,

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and it involved a hunger strike.

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About the tenth day, I passed out,

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and I went to a hospital there,

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so Jenny became a target,

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and they followed her
down the beach

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and strangled her with her own belt.

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These dolphins are symbolic
of a new day for the environment.

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It's all about respect now,
not exploitation.

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I feel somewhat responsible

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because it was the Flipper TV series

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that created this
multi-billion-dollar industry.

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It created this desire
to swim with them and kiss them

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and hold them and hug them
and love them to death,

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and it created all these captures.

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There were five female dolphins

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who collectively played
the part of Flipper.

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I captured the five dolphins myself.

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The entire crew turns to
with battle station teamwork.

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When the porpoise is sighted,

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not a moment can be lost.

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The men handle this creature
with infinite care.

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She seems to sense
that she has come home,

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that no harm will come to her now.

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She is safe.

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When I started training dolphins,
there was no manual.

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I would get the script,

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and it says "Flipper goes over
to the dock "and picks up the gun

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and then swims down left to right."

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I had to actually translate that
into action somehow.

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Thanks, Flipper.

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Yeah. Thanks, Flipper.

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The thing that really struck me

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was that they're smarter
than we think they are.

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The house that you see
on the Flipper set

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where the family lives

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was actually my house.

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I lived there all year round
for seven years.

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And right in front of the house

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there was a lake, salt water lake,

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and that's where Flipper was
at the end of the dock.

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When Flipper came on television
at Friday night at 7:30,

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I would take my television
set from the house

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and go down the end of the dock

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with a long extension cord,

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and Cathy would watch
herself on television,

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and she could tell the difference
between herself and Suzy,

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who was another Flipper
dolphin that was used.

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I knew then they were self-aware,

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and when you become conscious
of this nonhuman intelligence,

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you realize after a while
they don't really belong in captivity.

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But I didn't do anything about it.

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One day, it all ended.

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Like the props, they went
back to the Miami Seaquarium.

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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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The nerve center of any dolphinarium
is the fish house.

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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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And they're used
because dolphins get ulcers,

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because they're all stressed out.

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You have to see them in the wild

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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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When you're in the water,

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the dolphins can see
right through you.

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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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They get a lot of information
with their sound.

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The dolphin is captured
and put in a concrete tank

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surrounded by a stadium
full of screaming people.

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At the National Aquarium in Baltimore,

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when it first opened,
dolphins were dying left and right.

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They couldn't keep dolphins alive,

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and they finally figured out

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it's because the filtration system
was making a lot of noise.

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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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and that's their downfall in Taiji.

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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...

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There's 12 of them.

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This is a classic drive,

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what you're watching here.

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There are migratory routes

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that dolphins have been using
for thousands of years,

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and they just wait
till the dolphins come by.

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The boats then put these
long poles in the water

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which have a flange on the bottom,

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and they just bang on these poles
with hammers,

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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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and they were all
running for their lives,

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running from this wall of sound.

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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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I hear it in my sleep.

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That sound never goes away
once you hear it.

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By the time they get to the lagoon,

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they're totally freaked out,
stressed out to the max.

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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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selecting the ones that they want
for the dolphinariums.

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They're looking for bottlenose
dolphin, primarily.

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They're looking for Flipper,

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and so they collect young females,

255
00:16:09,215 --> 00:16:11,408
just like we did for the Flipper show.

256
00:16:12,882 --> 00:16:16,678
And they're flown to different
parts of the world.

257
00:16:38,418 --> 00:16:41,906
I could have my own dolphin facility
somewhere in the Caribbean

258
00:16:41,985 --> 00:16:43,541
and be making 2 or 3
million dollars a year

259
00:16:43,618 --> 00:16:46,277
like these guys, if I wanted to.

260
00:16:46,352 --> 00:16:48,477
But I walked away from that.

261
00:16:50,085 --> 00:16:52,414
The thing that turned me around

262
00:16:52,485 --> 00:16:55,576
was the death of Flipper, of Cathy.

263
00:16:57,286 --> 00:17:00,615
She was really depressed.
I could feel it.

264
00:17:00,687 --> 00:17:02,778
I could see it.

265
00:17:02,853 --> 00:17:06,182
And she committed suicide in my arms.

266
00:17:06,254 --> 00:17:09,651
That's a very strong word, suicide.

267
00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,185
But you have to understand

268
00:17:11,254 --> 00:17:15,811
dolphins and other whales
are not automatic air breathers,

269
00:17:15,888 --> 00:17:17,285
like we are.

270
00:17:17,354 --> 00:17:20,911
Every breath they take
is a conscious effort.

271
00:17:20,988 --> 00:17:23,215
And so they can end their life

272
00:17:23,288 --> 00:17:26,617
whenever life becomes too unbearable

273
00:17:26,689 --> 00:17:29,120
by not taking the next breath.

274
00:17:29,189 --> 00:17:32,178
And it's in that context
I use the word suicide.

275
00:17:32,256 --> 00:17:33,778
She did that.

276
00:17:33,856 --> 00:17:35,617
She swam into my arms

277
00:17:35,690 --> 00:17:37,155
and looked me right in the eye

278
00:17:37,223 --> 00:17:39,246
and... took a breath...

279
00:17:40,523 --> 00:17:41,647
and didn't take another one.

280
00:17:42,856 --> 00:17:44,253
I just let her go,

281
00:17:44,324 --> 00:17:48,723
and she sank straight down on her belly
to the bottom of the tank.

282
00:17:51,391 --> 00:17:54,788
The next day, I was in the Bimini jail

283
00:17:54,857 --> 00:17:58,812
for trying to free a dolphin
at the Lerner Marine Laboratory.

284
00:17:58,892 --> 00:18:01,790
That's how I reacted to it.

285
00:18:01,858 --> 00:18:05,415
I was going to free
every captive dolphin I could.

286
00:18:07,559 --> 00:18:09,854
I spent ten years
building that industry up.

287
00:18:09,926 --> 00:18:15,790
And I spent the last 35 years
trying to tear it down.

288
00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,822
When I started out,
there were only three dolphinariums.

289
00:18:24,094 --> 00:18:27,617
Today it's become
a multi-billion-dollar industry.

290
00:18:29,428 --> 00:18:32,053
In all of these captures,

291
00:18:32,128 --> 00:18:37,083
we helped create the largest slaughter
of dolphins on the planet.

292
00:18:41,395 --> 00:18:45,418
Anyone can watch the capture process
go on from the road.

293
00:18:45,495 --> 00:18:46,926
But Ric pointed out

294
00:18:46,996 --> 00:18:49,019
where they take the boats
around to the secret cove

295
00:18:49,096 --> 00:18:53,653
that nobody could see
where dolphins that weren't selected

296
00:18:53,730 --> 00:18:57,492
are slaughtered and sold for their meat.

297
00:19:09,198 --> 00:19:11,527
Here in Taiji,

298
00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:15,258
you can go to the Whale Museum
and watch the dolphin show

299
00:19:15,332 --> 00:19:17,389
and eat a dolphin at the same time.

300
00:19:17,465 --> 00:19:21,488
They sell dolphin and whale meat
right in the dolphinarium.

301
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,023
It's the captivity industry
that keeps this slaughter going

302
00:19:32,100 --> 00:19:35,964
by rewarding the fishermen
for their bad behavior.

303
00:19:36,034 --> 00:19:39,194
They only get $600 for a dead dolphin,

304
00:19:39,268 --> 00:19:44,565
but they can get more than $150,000
for a live show dolphin.

305
00:19:46,868 --> 00:19:50,300
I told Ric
that I'd help him out,

306
00:19:50,369 --> 00:19:52,732
that we'll fix this, we'll change this.

307
00:19:54,302 --> 00:19:55,858
And I didn't tell him how

308
00:19:55,936 --> 00:19:59,061
because I really didn't know
how we were going to do it.

309
00:19:59,136 --> 00:20:02,761
There are lots of groups
here in Japan...

310
00:20:02,836 --> 00:20:05,267
World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace,

311
00:20:05,337 --> 00:20:07,666
International Fund
for Animal Welfare.

312
00:20:07,737 --> 00:20:11,169
They all make hundreds
of millions of dollars between them.

313
00:20:11,238 --> 00:20:13,703
This is the largest slaughter
of dolphins in the world.

314
00:20:13,770 --> 00:20:14,996
Where are they?

315
00:20:17,571 --> 00:20:19,093
There is one organization

316
00:20:19,171 --> 00:20:22,659
whose sole purpose is to protect
all cetaceans in the wild.

317
00:20:22,738 --> 00:20:23,896
That's the IWC...

318
00:20:23,972 --> 00:20:25,460
the International Whaling Commission.

319
00:20:25,539 --> 00:20:26,731
But for some reason,

320
00:20:26,805 --> 00:20:30,567
small cetaceans, dolphins
and porpoises, aren't protected.

321
00:20:30,639 --> 00:20:33,537
Dolphins are whales.

322
00:20:33,606 --> 00:20:35,867
Size doesn't matter.

323
00:20:35,939 --> 00:20:39,769
The IWC will go down in history
as a ship of fools.

324
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:41,738
There's no...
There's no democracy here

325
00:20:41,807 --> 00:20:43,932
by any stretch of the imagination.

326
00:20:44,007 --> 00:20:46,132
They do whatever the hell
they want to do.

327
00:20:49,808 --> 00:20:51,797
Mr. O'Barry, you know I'm here.

328
00:20:51,874 --> 00:20:52,931
Yeah?

329
00:20:53,008 --> 00:20:55,530
I have to ask you to leave the hotel.

330
00:20:55,608 --> 00:20:57,130
You could have waited
till morning, but...

331
00:20:57,208 --> 00:21:00,140
Sir, I asked you very nicely
to turn off your camera.

332
00:21:00,208 --> 00:21:04,504
The reason why small cetaceans
are not popular with the IWC

333
00:21:04,575 --> 00:21:07,200
is because the whaling nations
that set this thing up

334
00:21:07,276 --> 00:21:09,867
clearly has the best interest
in leaving those out,

335
00:21:09,942 --> 00:21:12,135
particularly if they
happen to be eating them.

336
00:21:13,943 --> 00:21:17,898
Joji Marshita is the Deputy
Commissioner for Whaling.

337
00:21:17,977 --> 00:21:22,307
He's a talented guy from Japan
with a real hard job to do.

338
00:21:22,377 --> 00:21:23,899
He has to get up every day.

339
00:21:23,978 --> 00:21:25,705
First he'll look at himself in the mirror,

340
00:21:25,777 --> 00:21:27,242
and then he's got to go out

341
00:21:27,311 --> 00:21:31,437
and explain to the world
Japan's whaling policy.

342
00:21:31,511 --> 00:21:33,976
Very complicated subject to get around.

343
00:21:34,044 --> 00:21:36,601
It's clear the issue of whaling

344
00:21:36,678 --> 00:21:38,871
is becoming more of emotions.

345
00:21:38,945 --> 00:21:42,536
We have never
had a convincing reason

346
00:21:42,613 --> 00:21:44,636
why this species is so special.

347
00:22:04,248 --> 00:22:05,508
The International
Whaling Commission

348
00:22:05,581 --> 00:22:07,808
is the only international body
dealing with whales

349
00:22:07,881 --> 00:22:10,574
that's officially recognized
by the United Nations.

350
00:22:10,648 --> 00:22:13,443
It's basically
a toothless organization,

351
00:22:13,515 --> 00:22:15,810
but it is the only
organization that does exist.

352
00:22:25,550 --> 00:22:26,641
Well, there's a clause

353
00:22:26,717 --> 00:22:28,546
in the International
Whaling Convention

354
00:22:28,617 --> 00:22:32,310
that allows a nation
to take whales for science,

355
00:22:32,383 --> 00:22:36,247
and Japan has decided
that that's its loophole.

356
00:22:36,317 --> 00:22:38,782
Currently, Japan
has research programs

357
00:22:38,851 --> 00:22:40,976
that involve killing minke whales,

358
00:22:41,051 --> 00:22:44,245
fin whales, sei whales,
and humpback whales.

359
00:22:44,318 --> 00:22:46,909
Every scientific catch, to me,

360
00:22:46,985 --> 00:22:49,951
is a dark spot on the record
of this commission.

361
00:22:50,018 --> 00:22:54,814
They're talking about
the 1,000 whales in the Antarctic.

362
00:22:54,885 --> 00:22:56,282
They're not talking about

363
00:22:56,353 --> 00:22:59,012
the 23,000 over here
being slaughtered.

364
00:22:59,086 --> 00:23:00,551
The IWC has presided

365
00:23:00,620 --> 00:23:02,142
over one of the greatest

366
00:23:02,219 --> 00:23:03,809
environmental
catastrophes of all time.

367
00:23:03,886 --> 00:23:06,579
The reality is the International
Whaling Commission

368
00:23:06,653 --> 00:23:08,482
does have a mandate

369
00:23:08,554 --> 00:23:11,145
to look at issues
affecting dolphins,

370
00:23:11,220 --> 00:23:14,549
but the Japanese are
trying to legitimize a practice

371
00:23:14,621 --> 00:23:17,382
that just about every country
in the world has said no to.

372
00:23:17,455 --> 00:23:19,421
Governments are really great

373
00:23:19,488 --> 00:23:21,147
at getting together
and holding meetings

374
00:23:21,221 --> 00:23:22,811
and conferences
and glad-handing each other,

375
00:23:22,888 --> 00:23:25,047
but they never ever seem
to accomplish anything.

376
00:23:25,122 --> 00:23:27,247
It's as Margaret Mead once said...

377
00:23:27,322 --> 00:23:29,810
never ever depend
upon governments or institutions

378
00:23:29,888 --> 00:23:31,376
to solve any major problem.

379
00:23:31,456 --> 00:23:34,115
All social change comes
from the passion of individuals.

380
00:23:34,189 --> 00:23:38,451
If saving cetacean
species from extinction

381
00:23:38,522 --> 00:23:40,545
relies upon the International
Whaling Commission,

382
00:23:40,624 --> 00:23:42,681
then there is no hope.

383
00:23:50,258 --> 00:23:51,587
During the Greek era,

384
00:23:51,657 --> 00:23:54,953
it was punishable by death
to harm a dolphin.

385
00:23:55,024 --> 00:23:56,115
They were protected,

386
00:23:56,191 --> 00:23:57,781
and they were protected

387
00:23:57,858 --> 00:24:00,323
because there's a lot
of stories throughout history

388
00:24:00,392 --> 00:24:03,085
of dolphins saving the lives of humans.

389
00:24:06,125 --> 00:24:10,989
There's some real magic there
when you're on a wave together.

390
00:24:11,059 --> 00:24:12,786
There's this other species

391
00:24:12,859 --> 00:24:15,256
that you can't consciously
communicate with,

392
00:24:15,326 --> 00:24:17,519
and you're both experiencing a thing

393
00:24:17,593 --> 00:24:19,183
that's purely for joy

394
00:24:19,260 --> 00:24:22,090
beyond the level of survival.

395
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,251
I went surfing
on the east coast of Australia.

396
00:24:25,327 --> 00:24:27,020
About half an hour
into the session,

397
00:24:27,094 --> 00:24:28,855
I was sitting
with this friend of mine,

398
00:24:28,928 --> 00:24:30,291
and he goes, "Wait,"

399
00:24:30,361 --> 00:24:33,815
and on the surface of the next wave
was a tiger shark.

400
00:24:33,894 --> 00:24:38,224
Its fins were down,
and it was in the zone.

401
00:24:38,295 --> 00:24:40,886
This thing was literally
2 meters away from me,

402
00:24:40,962 --> 00:24:43,450
and I look down, and right there...

403
00:24:43,528 --> 00:24:45,551
it's like in a glass case in a wall...

404
00:24:45,629 --> 00:24:47,561
this dolphin comes out of right field

405
00:24:47,630 --> 00:24:49,027
and T-bones this shark

406
00:24:49,096 --> 00:24:51,527
and pushes it directly
away from me and my buddy.

407
00:24:53,863 --> 00:24:54,954
In that moment...

408
00:24:55,030 --> 00:24:59,224
That's the most obvious demonstration
of the connection in my life.

409
00:25:01,464 --> 00:25:03,521
A few years ago,
a friend of mine told me

410
00:25:03,597 --> 00:25:06,688
about what was going on in Japan.

411
00:25:06,764 --> 00:25:10,389
23,000 are being
wiped out every year,

412
00:25:10,465 --> 00:25:13,192
and it's not even acknowledged.

413
00:25:14,398 --> 00:25:17,795
Nobody has actually seen
what takes place back there,

414
00:25:17,865 --> 00:25:20,729
and so the way to stop it
is to expose it.

415
00:25:20,799 --> 00:25:22,628
They've already told us that...

416
00:25:22,699 --> 00:25:24,062
"Don't take pictures."

417
00:25:24,133 --> 00:25:25,996
The sign says "Don't take pictures."

418
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:30,260
And so the way to stop it
is keep exposing this to the world.

419
00:25:30,333 --> 00:25:32,526
Eventually,
the Japanese government will say

420
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,997
"Look, this is not working.
It's a PR nightmare."

421
00:25:35,067 --> 00:25:36,589
No! No photograph.

422
00:25:38,268 --> 00:25:40,825
I brought the BBC,
The London Times,

423
00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:42,365
Time Magazine,

424
00:25:42,434 --> 00:25:44,229
and everybody
goes away empty-handed.

425
00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:47,232
No photos, okay?

426
00:25:51,469 --> 00:25:53,332
They're afraid of cameras.

427
00:25:53,402 --> 00:25:55,629
One morning I didn't
have my camera,

428
00:25:55,702 --> 00:25:57,224
and a couple guys from the boat,

429
00:25:57,302 --> 00:25:59,733
they took a baby dolphin up
and cut its throat.

430
00:25:59,802 --> 00:26:02,893
It was already dead,
but they held it up and cut its throat,

431
00:26:02,969 --> 00:26:04,525
and they were just
trying to get me angry,

432
00:26:04,936 --> 00:26:05,765
and I almost hit this guy.

433
00:26:06,303 --> 00:26:07,666
He got right in my face.

434
00:26:07,737 --> 00:26:09,259
We called him Private Space.

435
00:26:09,336 --> 00:26:11,995
That's the only two words
he knows in English...

436
00:26:12,070 --> 00:26:13,365
private space.

437
00:26:13,437 --> 00:26:14,425
Private!

438
00:26:14,504 --> 00:26:15,992
And he got right in my face,

439
00:26:16,070 --> 00:26:17,558
and he's screaming
at me with a camera.

440
00:26:17,638 --> 00:26:18,933
He wanted me to hit him.

441
00:26:19,005 --> 00:26:20,527
I mean, he just egged me on,

442
00:26:20,604 --> 00:26:22,627
and I almost... man,
I almost decked this guy

443
00:26:22,704 --> 00:26:24,533
and knocked him off that rock.

444
00:26:24,605 --> 00:26:26,127
That's what they want you to do...

445
00:26:26,205 --> 00:26:29,262
hit them or do something
to get you out of here.

446
00:26:29,338 --> 00:26:31,099
The only way they can
get us out of here

447
00:26:31,172 --> 00:26:33,331
is get us arrested and get it on video.

448
00:26:33,406 --> 00:26:35,395
I spend most of my time

449
00:26:35,473 --> 00:26:40,405
trying to keep from getting arrested
on bogus charges.

450
00:26:40,473 --> 00:26:41,836
They spend most of their time

451
00:26:41,906 --> 00:26:44,167
trying to arrest us
on bogus charges

452
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,206
and get us out of the game.

453
00:26:48,307 --> 00:26:52,171
In 2003, I sent a crew to Taiji.

454
00:26:52,241 --> 00:26:54,536
Their objective was to
just get evidence to film

455
00:26:54,607 --> 00:26:56,596
and see what's going on there.

456
00:26:56,675 --> 00:26:58,641
They got into the water
and cut the nets

457
00:26:58,708 --> 00:27:00,799
and released some
pilot whales and dolphins

458
00:27:00,875 --> 00:27:03,170
and were immediately
arrested for that.

459
00:27:03,242 --> 00:27:04,867
Come on!

460
00:27:04,942 --> 00:27:06,237
That actually worked out

461
00:27:06,309 --> 00:27:07,604
to show that we were determined

462
00:27:07,676 --> 00:27:09,198
to protect the lives
of these animals,

463
00:27:09,276 --> 00:27:11,639
but of course it made it
very difficult to return.

464
00:27:15,343 --> 00:27:17,831
In 2007, when I wanted
to do something

465
00:27:17,909 --> 00:27:19,670
to expose the issue,

466
00:27:19,744 --> 00:27:20,902
I was shocked

467
00:27:20,976 --> 00:27:23,169
that I was the only surfer
in my surfing community

468
00:27:23,243 --> 00:27:24,572
that knew about this,

469
00:27:24,644 --> 00:27:27,269
so Hayden Panettiere, Isabel Lucas,

470
00:27:27,344 --> 00:27:29,173
we all connected,
and we made the decision,

471
00:27:29,244 --> 00:27:30,834
okay, we're going to paddle out.

472
00:27:30,910 --> 00:27:32,603
No one's
going to be aggressive.

473
00:27:32,678 --> 00:27:36,007
And they got really fired up.

474
00:27:37,911 --> 00:27:39,240
We had to pull the pin.

475
00:27:39,312 --> 00:27:40,607
There was nothing we could do,

476
00:27:40,679 --> 00:27:42,804
nothing more we could do
in that scenario.

477
00:27:51,079 --> 00:27:53,840
You see, this is like
a cat and mouse game.

478
00:27:53,913 --> 00:27:55,071
Those particular activists,

479
00:27:55,146 --> 00:27:58,044
they were arrested right here
in this very spot.

480
00:27:58,114 --> 00:27:59,670
Now they can never come back.

481
00:27:59,747 --> 00:28:01,212
They're out of the game.

482
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,375
My heart went out to them.

483
00:28:05,447 --> 00:28:07,674
I watched Flipper as a child.

484
00:28:07,748 --> 00:28:09,646
I grew to love the oceans
partly because of Flipper.

485
00:28:09,714 --> 00:28:11,441
We are going to stop this.

486
00:28:11,515 --> 00:28:13,413
We're going to stop this.

487
00:28:13,482 --> 00:28:15,970
And here's the guy that started it all.

488
00:28:16,048 --> 00:28:18,275
He's trying to rectify
this huge problem,

489
00:28:18,348 --> 00:28:20,337
but he can't find
anybody to help him.

490
00:28:21,548 --> 00:28:24,480
If we could just get in there,
we can stop this.

491
00:28:28,017 --> 00:28:30,915
The first guy I called was
my buddy Charles Hambleton.

492
00:28:30,983 --> 00:28:33,108
He's a adrenaline junkie.

493
00:28:33,183 --> 00:28:35,240
He's been sail master on
The Pirates of the Caribbean.

494
00:28:35,317 --> 00:28:37,874
He's traveled all over the world
on photo assignments.

495
00:28:37,951 --> 00:28:39,780
He's the guy that has a heart of gold

496
00:28:39,851 --> 00:28:41,840
and nerves of steel.
He'll do anything.

497
00:28:44,784 --> 00:28:47,944
I remember distinctly a phone call

498
00:28:48,018 --> 00:28:50,313
saying I needed to be in Japan.

499
00:28:51,551 --> 00:28:53,676
We stepped off the train in Taiji,

500
00:28:53,752 --> 00:28:56,274
and we were immediately
met by Ric O'Barry,

501
00:28:56,352 --> 00:28:58,409
along with the police.

502
00:28:58,486 --> 00:28:59,883
I'm not entirely sure

503
00:28:59,953 --> 00:29:02,010
Louis knew what he was
getting himself into.

504
00:29:03,586 --> 00:29:04,983
On our initial trip to Japan,

505
00:29:05,053 --> 00:29:08,382
we had a formal meeting
in the town mayor's office

506
00:29:08,453 --> 00:29:09,748
with the fishing union

507
00:29:09,820 --> 00:29:12,013
and with all the proper authorities.

508
00:29:12,087 --> 00:29:15,985
We spent seven hours
trying to negotiate an arrangement

509
00:29:16,054 --> 00:29:17,747
where we would try to be
respectful of their side.

510
00:29:17,820 --> 00:29:20,911
That was the point to me,
is get both sides.

511
00:29:20,987 --> 00:29:25,419
And we started to realize
that they were hiding something.

512
00:29:25,488 --> 00:29:27,783
You have to get permission
to get a permit

513
00:29:27,855 --> 00:29:29,115
to get permission to do...

514
00:29:29,188 --> 00:29:32,676
and nobody wants to do
anything without permission.

515
00:29:32,756 --> 00:29:35,415
After two days of negotiations,

516
00:29:35,489 --> 00:29:37,920
they said, "We're not
going to let you do it,"

517
00:29:37,989 --> 00:29:39,716
and they put a map on the table

518
00:29:39,789 --> 00:29:41,914
and pointed with these
red X's on the map.

519
00:29:41,989 --> 00:29:44,477
and said, "Don't go here,
don't go here,

520
00:29:44,556 --> 00:29:46,181
don't go here, don't go here."

521
00:29:46,257 --> 00:29:47,449
And then Charles said...

522
00:29:47,523 --> 00:29:49,648
"Could we just hang on
to that for reference,

523
00:29:49,723 --> 00:29:52,188
just so we know where
we're not supposed to be?"

524
00:29:52,257 --> 00:29:53,483
That kind of thing.

525
00:29:53,557 --> 00:29:58,580
And that became sort of our template
of where we had to go.

526
00:30:04,759 --> 00:30:07,782
The secret cove is a natural fortress.

527
00:30:07,859 --> 00:30:11,621
It's surrounded on three sides
by steep cliffs.

528
00:30:13,426 --> 00:30:14,686
There are several tunnels

529
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:16,623
that you need to get
through to get there.

530
00:30:18,027 --> 00:30:21,891
High fences surrounded
by razor ribbon.

531
00:30:25,060 --> 00:30:28,423
I've traveled all over the world
throughout my entire life,

532
00:30:28,494 --> 00:30:31,483
and the coastline is majestic.

533
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,754
It's astounding to think
that this horror happens

534
00:30:35,828 --> 00:30:38,692
in one of the most beautiful places.

535
00:30:40,361 --> 00:30:42,156
We snuck up to this park.

536
00:30:42,229 --> 00:30:43,694
It was called Tsunami Park.

537
00:30:43,762 --> 00:30:46,023
It was blockaded,
but we went up there.

538
00:30:46,095 --> 00:30:48,686
The only safe time
to go in Tsunami Park

539
00:30:48,763 --> 00:30:50,956
is when there are no
dolphins in the lagoon.

540
00:30:51,030 --> 00:30:53,359
Then there are no guards around.

541
00:30:53,430 --> 00:30:56,555
Ric pointed down
to the secret lagoon,

542
00:30:56,630 --> 00:30:59,993
and he said, "That's
where all the dirty business happens."

543
00:31:00,064 --> 00:31:01,654
The cops were on our tail,

544
00:31:01,730 --> 00:31:03,457
and I thought, let's get out of here.

545
00:31:03,530 --> 00:31:04,688
We'll try to regroup.

546
00:31:04,764 --> 00:31:07,787
So we went off to do
some sightseeing outside Taiji.

547
00:31:10,431 --> 00:31:12,488
All these beautiful
temples are there,

548
00:31:12,564 --> 00:31:15,291
some of the most beautiful
temples in all of Japan.

549
00:31:17,065 --> 00:31:19,587
In one of these temples,
they have a dry rock garden

550
00:31:19,666 --> 00:31:21,495
where the monks rake these rocks,

551
00:31:21,565 --> 00:31:23,554
and in the center
they have these rocks

552
00:31:23,632 --> 00:31:26,792
that people come from all
over the world to contemplate.

553
00:31:26,866 --> 00:31:28,024
It was gorgeous,

554
00:31:28,099 --> 00:31:29,655
but I thought, in America,

555
00:31:29,733 --> 00:31:34,098
people would never go
on a Sunday to watch rocks.

556
00:31:35,533 --> 00:31:38,192
Suddenly I got this idea.

557
00:31:38,267 --> 00:31:40,460
What if the rocks looked back?

558
00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:50,592
This was a big waterfall set

559
00:31:50,669 --> 00:31:53,533
that we constructed
for the movie Evan Almighty.

560
00:31:53,602 --> 00:31:55,591
A dam breaks and floods

561
00:31:55,669 --> 00:31:57,692
and takes the...
washes the road out and...

562
00:31:57,769 --> 00:31:59,758
One of my best friends
and my first assistant

563
00:31:59,835 --> 00:32:01,801
was a guy that became
the head mold maker

564
00:32:01,869 --> 00:32:03,357
at Industrial Light and Magic,

565
00:32:03,436 --> 00:32:06,959
so I called up and said,
"I've got this idea for a project.

566
00:32:07,037 --> 00:32:09,196
"I want to hide
Hi-Def cameras in a rock.

567
00:32:09,270 --> 00:32:10,327
Can you help us?"

568
00:32:14,737 --> 00:32:16,964
Is that what you had in mind?

569
00:32:17,038 --> 00:32:18,367
It's a work of art, man.

570
00:32:18,437 --> 00:32:20,335
We can do all of them
brown if you want,

571
00:32:20,405 --> 00:32:22,598
or we can do a combination
of brown and gray.

572
00:32:22,672 --> 00:32:24,399
I think brown and gray
would be better.

573
00:32:24,471 --> 00:32:26,732
I think this is going
to be a primary for us

574
00:32:26,805 --> 00:32:27,963
that these are all gray.

575
00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:29,334
I would try to keep them

576
00:32:29,405 --> 00:32:31,166
as lower of a profile
as possible because...

577
00:32:31,239 --> 00:32:33,262
We needed a special group of people

578
00:32:33,339 --> 00:32:34,634
to implement this mission.

579
00:32:34,706 --> 00:32:38,103
We needed people with
a special set of skills.

580
00:32:38,172 --> 00:32:39,694
I started to set up this team,

581
00:32:39,773 --> 00:32:41,932
this... sort of this
Ocean's Eleven team.

582
00:32:43,573 --> 00:32:44,799
Simon Hutchins,

583
00:32:44,873 --> 00:32:46,600
the only guy that had
military experience.

584
00:32:46,674 --> 00:32:49,299
Simon created all these weird ways

585
00:32:49,373 --> 00:32:51,532
to hide Hi-Def cameras
and hydrophones.

586
00:32:51,607 --> 00:32:53,630
You know, he's a mad genius.

587
00:32:53,707 --> 00:32:55,639
If we could dream it,
Simon could build it.

588
00:32:57,107 --> 00:32:58,970
Joe Chisolm organized rock concerts,

589
00:32:59,042 --> 00:33:01,008
and we were kind of like
a rock concert...

590
00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:02,301
you know, incognito.

591
00:33:02,374 --> 00:33:05,862
You know, we had hundreds
of cases of material

592
00:33:05,941 --> 00:33:07,531
that we had to import into Japan,

593
00:33:07,609 --> 00:33:09,268
and he did the logistics.

594
00:33:09,342 --> 00:33:10,898
Louis came back, and he said, "Look,

595
00:33:10,976 --> 00:33:12,033
we got to get in,"

596
00:33:12,109 --> 00:33:13,404
and Louis and I started discussing

597
00:33:13,475 --> 00:33:15,464
all of the ways that we can film it.

598
00:33:15,543 --> 00:33:18,373
We had a military grade
thermal camera,

599
00:33:18,443 --> 00:33:20,500
which you're not allowed
to bring out of the country.

600
00:33:20,576 --> 00:33:23,041
If it has a pulse,
the thermal camera picks it up.

601
00:33:23,110 --> 00:33:26,372
One thing that we had decided to do
is get some aerial footage,

602
00:33:26,444 --> 00:33:29,932
so we decided to take
our own helicopter with us.

603
00:33:30,010 --> 00:33:32,942
We looked into, you know,
commandeering a satellite

604
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:34,636
to do satellite pictures.

605
00:33:34,711 --> 00:33:37,939
We decided to make
our own unmanned drone

606
00:33:38,011 --> 00:33:40,977
with a gyro-stabilized
Hi-Def camera below it.

607
00:33:41,045 --> 00:33:42,977
We actually named it Cathy,

608
00:33:43,046 --> 00:33:45,807
and that was purely
out of respect for Ric O'Barry.

609
00:33:45,879 --> 00:33:47,276
The idea there was

610
00:33:47,346 --> 00:33:51,778
that even if the blimp didn't succeed
and we got caught

611
00:33:51,846 --> 00:33:54,505
that everybody loves a balloon...

612
00:33:54,579 --> 00:33:56,738
you know, kids, police, everyone.

613
00:33:59,180 --> 00:34:02,078
One of these devices
that was very important to Louis and I

614
00:34:02,147 --> 00:34:04,204
is the hydrophone...
high tech sound devices

615
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:05,973
put in underwater housing.

616
00:34:06,048 --> 00:34:08,014
I wanted to hear
the dolphins from the lagoon,

617
00:34:08,081 --> 00:34:09,774
but we didn't know
how deep it was.

618
00:34:09,847 --> 00:34:10,938
We had rebreathers,

619
00:34:11,014 --> 00:34:12,536
but it would be clanky,
it would be noisy.

620
00:34:12,615 --> 00:34:15,944
Mandy-Rae Cruickshank and Kirk Krack

621
00:34:16,015 --> 00:34:18,776
are world class freedivers.

622
00:34:18,848 --> 00:34:20,643
Freediving in its simplest terms,

623
00:34:20,715 --> 00:34:22,681
it's like deep snorkeling.

624
00:34:22,749 --> 00:34:25,112
On one breath we see
how deep we can go in the ocean,

625
00:34:25,182 --> 00:34:26,977
how long we can hold our breath.

626
00:34:27,050 --> 00:34:28,174
Mandy-Rae's owned

627
00:34:28,250 --> 00:34:30,011
eight world championships
in her lifetime.

628
00:34:30,083 --> 00:34:33,776
She can go down to 300 feet
on one breath of air

629
00:34:33,849 --> 00:34:35,474
and come back on her own power.

630
00:34:39,350 --> 00:34:41,339
They got on board pretty quickly

631
00:34:41,418 --> 00:34:43,350
when they found out
what we wanted to do.

632
00:34:50,518 --> 00:34:53,450
We have some of the same
physiological traits

633
00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:56,041
that whales, seals,
and dolphins have.

634
00:34:56,118 --> 00:34:57,777
We're all air-breathing mammals.

635
00:34:57,852 --> 00:35:00,215
They live in the water.
We live on land.

636
00:35:03,386 --> 00:35:05,284
When you're out
swimming in the ocean

637
00:35:05,353 --> 00:35:08,114
and you have whales
and dolphins come by you,

638
00:35:08,186 --> 00:35:12,312
it is one of the most
incredible experiences ever.

639
00:35:12,386 --> 00:35:15,715
It's so humbling that this wild creature

640
00:35:15,787 --> 00:35:18,617
would come up and be
so interested in you.

641
00:35:18,688 --> 00:35:20,119
It's...

642
00:35:20,187 --> 00:35:22,482
It's unbelievable, really.

643
00:35:26,221 --> 00:35:29,778
Even though there's
obviously no words spoken,

644
00:35:29,855 --> 00:35:33,753
you really feel like you're on some
level communicating with them,

645
00:35:33,822 --> 00:35:37,515
like there's an understanding
between the two of you.

646
00:35:43,356 --> 00:35:45,981
I don't normally touch
anything in the water,

647
00:35:46,057 --> 00:35:47,386
but I just thought, you know,

648
00:35:47,457 --> 00:35:49,423
it had been swimming
with me for so long,

649
00:35:49,490 --> 00:35:51,456
I put my hand out in front of me,

650
00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:53,046
and it rolled right into my hand,

651
00:35:53,123 --> 00:35:54,816
and it just stayed there
in front of me,

652
00:35:54,891 --> 00:35:56,186
letting me rub its belly.

653
00:35:58,325 --> 00:35:59,881
Here you have this dolphin,

654
00:35:59,957 --> 00:36:02,252
wild and on its own terms,

655
00:36:02,325 --> 00:36:06,052
come up and really
seek out affection and touch.

656
00:36:06,125 --> 00:36:08,318
It really wanted to be with us.

657
00:36:10,526 --> 00:36:11,617
When they asked us

658
00:36:11,693 --> 00:36:15,420
if we wanted to partake
in a secret ops mission

659
00:36:15,492 --> 00:36:17,821
to uncover the dolphin slaughter,

660
00:36:17,893 --> 00:36:19,950
we without hesitation said,
"Absolutely. Sign us up.

661
00:36:20,026 --> 00:36:21,924
What can we do?"

662
00:36:26,327 --> 00:36:27,656
- This is what...

663
00:36:29,794 --> 00:36:30,817
It's so cool.

664
00:36:30,894 --> 00:36:31,985
Yeah.

665
00:36:32,061 --> 00:36:34,390
I'm just a cute little innocent rock.

666
00:36:34,461 --> 00:36:35,926
Getting these into Customs

667
00:36:35,995 --> 00:36:37,858
is going to be the trick, I think, next.

668
00:36:37,928 --> 00:36:39,860
I hope we'll be able
to find them again

669
00:36:39,928 --> 00:36:41,154
once we plant them.

670
00:36:41,228 --> 00:36:43,716
Actually, come back to the hotel
and we have real rocks.

671
00:36:57,763 --> 00:37:01,217
There's 47 suitcases.

672
00:37:01,297 --> 00:37:04,161
I don't think they're going
to let us carry this on.

673
00:37:21,298 --> 00:37:24,923
We definitely were trying
to be as discreet as possible,

674
00:37:24,999 --> 00:37:28,761
but there's nothing discreet
about Westerners

675
00:37:28,833 --> 00:37:32,788
in a place where there are
no Westerners with big black cases,

676
00:37:32,866 --> 00:37:35,025
and it was noted.

677
00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:39,129
Well, now, there's a car here.

678
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,166
Just... I just got here yesterday.

679
00:37:41,233 --> 00:37:43,324
You think... Do you think
they know we're here?

680
00:37:45,368 --> 00:37:47,061
You do?

681
00:37:48,967 --> 00:37:51,058
First morning we arrived in Taiji,

682
00:37:51,134 --> 00:37:53,066
Ric O'Barry met us at our hotel.

683
00:37:53,134 --> 00:37:55,100
He decided that it would
be a good idea

684
00:37:55,169 --> 00:37:56,691
if he'd take us on a tour

685
00:37:56,768 --> 00:37:58,393
so we got the lay of the land.

686
00:37:58,469 --> 00:37:59,866
So we all get in the vehicles,

687
00:37:59,935 --> 00:38:02,230
and one of the first
things we noticed

688
00:38:02,302 --> 00:38:05,029
was that we got an escort.

689
00:38:11,036 --> 00:38:12,626
This is the butcher shop right here,

690
00:38:12,704 --> 00:38:14,226
the slaughterhouse.

691
00:38:14,303 --> 00:38:15,962
This is the union right here,

692
00:38:16,037 --> 00:38:17,832
and there's Private Space.

693
00:38:25,571 --> 00:38:27,036
When we first got in the country,

694
00:38:27,105 --> 00:38:29,264
we had no idea
who was following us.

695
00:38:29,339 --> 00:38:32,635
There was about seven or eight cars
that we had license plates,

696
00:38:32,706 --> 00:38:35,331
so we knew that we were being
followed by these people.

697
00:38:35,405 --> 00:38:37,132
We didn't know
if it was the whalers.

698
00:38:37,205 --> 00:38:40,137
We didn't know if it was Yakuza,
the Japanese Mafia.

699
00:38:40,206 --> 00:38:42,365
We had no idea.

700
00:38:43,473 --> 00:38:45,234
I'd met this guy that spoke English.

701
00:38:45,306 --> 00:38:46,669
He was from
the Whaling Museum,

702
00:38:46,740 --> 00:38:49,604
and I asked him, "Do you know
who's in that car over there?"

703
00:38:49,673 --> 00:38:52,935
He looks over there, and he goes,
"Chief of Police."

704
00:38:54,507 --> 00:38:57,598
If you're around Ric,
they... they know you're trouble.

705
00:39:30,811 --> 00:39:33,072
Our first encounter
with the fishermen

706
00:39:33,144 --> 00:39:36,133
was they went down there
at first break of light,

707
00:39:36,211 --> 00:39:37,904
and as soon as we arrived,

708
00:39:37,977 --> 00:39:39,806
a number of fishermen showed up.

709
00:39:41,244 --> 00:39:44,210
We were down by the beach
looking at...

710
00:39:44,279 --> 00:39:47,040
You could see the blood
coming out of the killing lagoon.

711
00:39:47,112 --> 00:39:48,839
You could see a bunch of the babies

712
00:39:48,912 --> 00:39:51,241
were cordoned off by themselves
away from their parents

713
00:39:51,312 --> 00:39:53,335
while their parents
were all being slaughtered.

714
00:39:56,246 --> 00:40:00,871
And so I wanted to get
a better look into the lagoon,

715
00:40:00,946 --> 00:40:04,503
and as Joe and I tried
to walk down this path,

716
00:40:04,580 --> 00:40:07,740
some of the fishermen came
and actually butted chest against us.

717
00:40:08,914 --> 00:40:10,539
Don't touch the girl.

718
00:40:11,914 --> 00:40:13,209
Trying to stop us

719
00:40:13,281 --> 00:40:15,508
from getting that vantage
point on the killing.

720
00:40:15,581 --> 00:40:17,513
And just after that,

721
00:40:17,581 --> 00:40:20,046
We walked down
to the water's edge,

722
00:40:20,115 --> 00:40:23,138
and this one poor dolphin, it...

723
00:40:23,215 --> 00:40:25,442
You could see it
trying to get away,

724
00:40:25,515 --> 00:40:27,742
and it was swimming
straight for us and the shore,

725
00:40:27,816 --> 00:40:30,748
and it actually made it
over a couple of the nets,

726
00:40:30,816 --> 00:40:32,839
and every time
it came up for a breath,

727
00:40:32,916 --> 00:40:35,973
you could see all this blood
coming out behind it,

728
00:40:36,050 --> 00:40:39,073
and you could see
the last couple of breaths it took,

729
00:40:39,150 --> 00:40:41,775
and then it went down,
and we never saw it again.

730
00:41:28,355 --> 00:41:29,684
Bye-bye-bye-bye.

731
00:41:34,555 --> 00:41:38,009
It's a relatively small group of people
who are doing this.

732
00:41:38,089 --> 00:41:40,180
Outside these few remote villages,

733
00:41:40,255 --> 00:41:44,210
most of the population
doesn't even know this is going on.

734
00:41:46,023 --> 00:41:49,217
The fishermen here who do this
tell you "This is our tradition.

735
00:41:49,290 --> 00:41:50,812
"This is our culture.

736
00:41:50,890 --> 00:41:52,150
"You don't understand us.

737
00:41:52,223 --> 00:41:54,780
You eat cows.
Well, we eat dolphins."

738
00:41:54,857 --> 00:41:58,311
Well, the truth is that's the big lie.

739
00:41:58,391 --> 00:42:00,414
How can it be their culture, their tradition,

740
00:42:00,491 --> 00:42:04,184
if the Japanese people
don't even know about it?

741
00:42:05,491 --> 00:42:09,514
23,000 dolphins
are killed for meat every year.

742
00:42:13,959 --> 00:42:15,219
You never heard of it?

743
00:42:42,095 --> 00:42:44,720
People in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo...

744
00:42:44,795 --> 00:42:47,192
the reason they don't know about it

745
00:42:47,261 --> 00:42:49,852
is because of a media cover-up,

746
00:42:49,929 --> 00:42:52,417
a systematic, deliberate cover-up,

747
00:42:52,496 --> 00:42:54,553
a media blackout,

748
00:42:54,629 --> 00:42:59,425
because the dolphin meat
is heavily laced with mercury.

749
00:43:12,597 --> 00:43:14,119
Mercury starts in the environment

750
00:43:14,198 --> 00:43:16,061
with the smallest of organisms,

751
00:43:16,131 --> 00:43:18,154
and every step of the ladder up,

752
00:43:18,231 --> 00:43:20,424
it gets magnified about ten times...

753
00:43:21,565 --> 00:43:24,326
until the top of the food chain,

754
00:43:24,399 --> 00:43:27,092
where you get these
incredibly toxic levels.

755
00:43:27,165 --> 00:43:29,528
All the fish that we love most to eat...

756
00:43:29,599 --> 00:43:31,826
things like striped bass, bluefish,

757
00:43:31,899 --> 00:43:34,092
tuna, swordfish, marlin...

758
00:43:34,166 --> 00:43:37,155
this is a major source of mercury,

759
00:43:37,233 --> 00:43:40,529
and these substances
are causing real problems,

760
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,861
not just to dolphins, but to people,

761
00:43:42,934 --> 00:43:45,866
because people and dolphins feed

762
00:43:45,934 --> 00:43:48,832
at the same level of a food chain.

763
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:51,457
If you looked at bottlenose dolphins...

764
00:43:51,534 --> 00:43:53,363
that's Flipper, by the way...

765
00:43:53,434 --> 00:43:55,956
you'd discover, in fact,

766
00:43:56,035 --> 00:43:59,990
these animals are swimming
toxic dump sites.

767
00:44:00,068 --> 00:44:04,523
It's better to refrain
from taking those meats...

768
00:44:05,969 --> 00:44:06,957
how do I say?

769
00:44:07,036 --> 00:44:08,127
Too much.

770
00:44:08,370 --> 00:44:14,360
But still dolphin meat
contains some valuable nutrients.

771
00:44:14,436 --> 00:44:15,696
This is a matter

772
00:44:15,770 --> 00:44:20,259
that the consumer affairs
and health ministries are looking after,

773
00:44:20,337 --> 00:44:24,235
and I can assure you
that there is no product on the market

774
00:44:24,304 --> 00:44:27,498
that exceeds any of their standards.

775
00:44:27,571 --> 00:44:30,230
By their standards.

776
00:44:58,507 --> 00:45:01,701
Almost nobody eats dolphin meat,

777
00:45:01,774 --> 00:45:06,036
but 23,000 are slaughtered every year,

778
00:45:06,108 --> 00:45:07,733
so that begs the question,

779
00:45:07,808 --> 00:45:10,399
Where is all this meat going?

780
00:45:12,708 --> 00:45:16,470
Dolphin meat is generally considered
to be a less desirable commodity,

781
00:45:16,542 --> 00:45:19,599
and it would sell for far, far less
if it was properly labeled.

782
00:45:19,676 --> 00:45:24,438
So the meat is distributed
much more widely than we recognize.

783
00:45:24,510 --> 00:45:27,101
Scott Baker set up a portable DNA lab

784
00:45:27,176 --> 00:45:29,199
at a hotel in downtown Tokyo.

785
00:45:29,276 --> 00:45:32,037
We brought him samples,
and he analyzed them

786
00:45:32,111 --> 00:45:34,372
and found that
a lot of the packages

787
00:45:34,444 --> 00:45:36,841
that were labeled
as expensive meat from larger whales

788
00:45:36,910 --> 00:45:38,432
was actually dolphin meat.

789
00:45:38,511 --> 00:45:41,602
A consumer may think
they're buying healthy meat

790
00:45:41,678 --> 00:45:43,541
from whales from
the southern hemisphere,

791
00:45:43,611 --> 00:45:45,872
and they might be getting
a bottlenose dolphin

792
00:45:45,945 --> 00:45:47,205
from the coast of Taiji

793
00:45:47,278 --> 00:45:50,869
with levels of mercury
that are 20 times higher

794
00:45:50,946 --> 00:45:53,343
than World Health
Organization recommendations.

795
00:45:53,412 --> 00:45:55,173
The fishermen
who are eating dolphin

796
00:45:55,246 --> 00:45:56,734
are poisoning themselves,

797
00:45:56,812 --> 00:45:58,277
but they're also poisoning

798
00:45:58,346 --> 00:46:00,369
the people that they're selling it to.

799
00:46:00,446 --> 00:46:01,911
And the government knows this,

800
00:46:01,980 --> 00:46:03,411
and the government's covering this up.

801
00:46:05,980 --> 00:46:10,242
They had this problem
once before in Minamata.

802
00:46:10,314 --> 00:46:13,871
That's where mercury poisoning
was first discovered.

803
00:46:15,048 --> 00:46:17,809
They called it Minamata disease.

804
00:46:44,083 --> 00:46:47,515
Japan has a history
of this terrible Minamata tragedy,

805
00:46:47,584 --> 00:46:50,072
sometimes referred to
as Minamata disease.

806
00:46:50,151 --> 00:46:52,412
But it's not a disease. It's not caught.

807
00:46:52,485 --> 00:46:55,212
It's the result of this toxicity.

808
00:46:57,918 --> 00:47:00,975
The most serious health risk
of these high levels of mercury

809
00:47:01,052 --> 00:47:02,210
is to pregnant women.

810
00:47:02,285 --> 00:47:05,217
It's the fetus that's most sensitive
to these levels of mercury.

811
00:47:27,855 --> 00:47:31,343
The children were
starting to be born deformed.

812
00:47:31,421 --> 00:47:33,319
And it's going to happen again.

813
00:47:35,622 --> 00:47:38,520
Nobody has really looked
into the hospitals,

814
00:47:38,589 --> 00:47:40,384
looked into the records

815
00:47:40,455 --> 00:47:43,615
to see how many people
there have mercury poisoning.

816
00:47:43,689 --> 00:47:46,086
The symptoms are memory loss,

817
00:47:46,156 --> 00:47:49,213
loss of hearing,
loss of your eyesight.

818
00:47:49,289 --> 00:47:51,448
It doesn't just knock you over dead.

819
00:47:51,523 --> 00:47:53,318
It takes a while.

820
00:47:53,391 --> 00:47:54,754
And that's happening.

821
00:47:56,257 --> 00:47:58,688
Does he want to know
if he's poisoning the bodies

822
00:47:58,758 --> 00:48:00,621
of other Japanese
that he's selling the meat to?

823
00:48:00,691 --> 00:48:01,951
He doesn't want to know.

824
00:48:02,024 --> 00:48:04,013
He doesn't want to know about it.

825
00:48:04,091 --> 00:48:06,352
Well, in Minamata,
the government said

826
00:48:06,425 --> 00:48:08,482
they weren't poisoning the people
in Minamata, either.

827
00:48:08,558 --> 00:48:09,784
Remember that?

828
00:48:09,859 --> 00:48:11,119
The Chisso factory?

829
00:48:12,158 --> 00:48:13,146
The Chisso factory?

830
00:48:13,225 --> 00:48:14,952
Same thing, same problem.

831
00:48:15,025 --> 00:48:16,991
You don't think there's
a cover-up going on

832
00:48:17,059 --> 00:48:18,786
with the amount of mercury
in dolphin meat?

833
00:48:18,859 --> 00:48:22,382
I don't think that a similar
tragedy would happen

834
00:48:22,459 --> 00:48:24,220
because of the dolphin meat.

835
00:48:24,292 --> 00:48:25,917
I don't think so.

836
00:48:27,893 --> 00:48:29,586
Ultimately, the dolphin meat

837
00:48:29,660 --> 00:48:32,285
is based on supply and demand
like any other product,

838
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,985
and if that product is poison

839
00:48:35,061 --> 00:48:36,924
and they can't sell it in Taiji,

840
00:48:36,994 --> 00:48:38,823
then they can't sell it in Iwate,

841
00:48:38,894 --> 00:48:40,519
and they can't sell it in Okinawa,

842
00:48:40,595 --> 00:48:42,958
and they can't sell it wherever else
they're selling it.

843
00:48:43,027 --> 00:48:47,516
So you have to stay focused
on that one lagoon in Taiji, I think,

844
00:48:47,595 --> 00:48:49,890
in order to shut this down.

845
00:48:52,562 --> 00:48:54,551
Howdy. How are you doing today?

846
00:49:00,963 --> 00:49:04,395
If we got arrested,
how long before they charged us?

847
00:49:04,463 --> 00:49:06,429
They don't have to
charge you with anything.

848
00:49:06,497 --> 00:49:08,019
The way the law works in Japan,

849
00:49:08,097 --> 00:49:11,756
they can keep you in jail
with no charges for 28 days.

850
00:49:11,830 --> 00:49:15,318
90% of the convictions in Japan

851
00:49:15,398 --> 00:49:19,228
are obtained by confessions
during those 28 days

852
00:49:19,298 --> 00:49:21,423
because they can
torture you legally.

853
00:49:21,499 --> 00:49:23,896
They can wake you up
in the middle of the night,

854
00:49:23,965 --> 00:49:25,260
all night long, you know, and...

855
00:49:25,332 --> 00:49:27,059
I've been doing that to them all week.

856
00:49:27,132 --> 00:49:28,120
That may be aggressive...

857
00:49:28,198 --> 00:49:29,255
Can we prosecute him?

858
00:49:31,632 --> 00:49:32,858
I came to realize

859
00:49:32,932 --> 00:49:35,625
that this was going to be
a much longer process,

860
00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:40,065
so we utilized our time over there
doing reconnaissance, planning.

861
00:49:40,134 --> 00:49:42,191
We observed.

862
00:49:42,267 --> 00:49:44,926
There's two crews
that went in last night...

863
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:46,863
the guys that come
out of the tunnel.

864
00:49:46,933 --> 00:49:48,865
They're sent to look on the left side.

865
00:49:48,934 --> 00:49:50,900
They shine their flashlights.
They go pretty quick

866
00:49:50,968 --> 00:49:53,059
because they want
to get to work and start out.

867
00:49:53,135 --> 00:49:55,124
What they're doing is looking
for little snap branches.

868
00:49:55,201 --> 00:49:57,564
They normally go up there

869
00:49:57,635 --> 00:49:59,260
when they have dolphins
in the lagoon.

870
00:49:59,335 --> 00:50:01,301
They go up and see if anybody's
photographed them.

871
00:50:01,368 --> 00:50:03,095
What I'm thinking
is we go in there.

872
00:50:03,169 --> 00:50:05,226
Maybe I use that location
that has a branch,

873
00:50:05,302 --> 00:50:08,291
and I cut the branch on a night
when there's no dolphins.

874
00:50:08,369 --> 00:50:10,494
There was two parts to the mission.

875
00:50:10,569 --> 00:50:13,194
The first one was to get
the auditory experience.

876
00:50:13,270 --> 00:50:16,202
Where can we drop a big
housing skull like this

877
00:50:16,270 --> 00:50:18,497
with arms sticking out?
Let's try getting that.

878
00:50:18,570 --> 00:50:21,195
We could plant hydrophones
on the side of the lagoon

879
00:50:21,270 --> 00:50:22,963
that was easiest to get into.

880
00:50:23,037 --> 00:50:25,662
It's a lot easier getting down
the left side of the lagoon.

881
00:50:25,737 --> 00:50:29,191
The right side is right in the center
of the killing cove.

882
00:50:29,271 --> 00:50:30,702
I go first with the thermal camera.

883
00:50:30,772 --> 00:50:32,738
I can tell if there's
any movement over there.

884
00:50:32,805 --> 00:50:34,100
If they're hiding in the bushes,

885
00:50:34,172 --> 00:50:35,467
they're going to be popping out.

886
00:50:35,538 --> 00:50:38,060
So the hydrophone was
sort of a trial run

887
00:50:38,139 --> 00:50:39,604
to see if we could get away with it.

888
00:50:39,672 --> 00:50:41,137
You guys go in with two cameras, right?

889
00:50:41,205 --> 00:50:42,193
Three cameras.

890
00:50:42,272 --> 00:50:43,295
The second mission,

891
00:50:43,372 --> 00:50:45,235
what we call the full orchestra.

892
00:50:45,305 --> 00:50:46,861
Let's go, then, with three cameras...

893
00:50:46,939 --> 00:50:48,302
you're 2, you're 1...

894
00:50:48,373 --> 00:50:49,736
and think about fourth.

895
00:50:49,806 --> 00:50:51,396
We would plant all the rocks,

896
00:50:51,473 --> 00:50:53,938
the hydrophones, underwater cameras.

897
00:50:54,007 --> 00:50:57,564
They have scuba divers,
so they just sweep.

898
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,572
They're straining the bottom of that bay,

899
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,469
so we don't want them to
pick up underwater cameras.

900
00:51:01,541 --> 00:51:03,802
Once you get right here, you're safe.

901
00:51:03,875 --> 00:51:06,238
This is the first sign
that says "Do not enter."

902
00:51:06,307 --> 00:51:08,205
- We don't know what it says.
- "Danger."

903
00:51:08,275 --> 00:51:09,399
We have no idea.

904
00:51:09,474 --> 00:51:11,440
It says "Welcome to Taiji"
for all we know.

905
00:51:11,509 --> 00:51:12,838
"Enjoy our wonderful UNESCO site."

906
00:51:12,908 --> 00:51:15,339
I wanted to have
a three-dimensional experience

907
00:51:15,409 --> 00:51:17,341
with what's going on in that lagoon.

908
00:51:17,409 --> 00:51:20,239
I wanted to hear everything
that the dolphins were doing,

909
00:51:20,309 --> 00:51:21,934
everything that the whalers were saying.

910
00:51:22,009 --> 00:51:25,941
The effort wasn't just
to show the slaughter.

911
00:51:26,009 --> 00:51:29,600
You want to capture something
that will make people change.

912
00:51:31,110 --> 00:51:35,236
This weekend, the thin, mournful cry
of the humpback whale

913
00:51:35,310 --> 00:51:37,741
echoed through London's
Trafalgar Square,

914
00:51:37,811 --> 00:51:39,572
as thousands of demonstrators

915
00:51:39,644 --> 00:51:42,235
demanded an end to all whale killing.

916
00:51:42,311 --> 00:51:43,742
In the 1960s,

917
00:51:43,811 --> 00:51:45,208
when the IWC wasn't doing anything

918
00:51:45,278 --> 00:51:47,039
about the slaughter of large whales,

919
00:51:47,111 --> 00:51:48,474
there was one guy, Roger Payne,

920
00:51:48,545 --> 00:51:50,443
who helped start the whole
Save the Whale movement

921
00:51:50,512 --> 00:51:51,603
by exposing to the world

922
00:51:51,678 --> 00:51:52,836
that these animals were singing.

923
00:51:52,912 --> 00:51:54,571
That was profound.

924
00:51:54,645 --> 00:51:55,803
What do we want?

925
00:51:55,879 --> 00:51:56,970
Save the whales!

926
00:51:57,045 --> 00:51:58,305
When do we want it?

927
00:51:58,379 --> 00:52:00,936
Save the Whale demonstrators
were out again today.

928
00:52:01,013 --> 00:52:03,706
And they are determined to see
that something be done about it.

929
00:52:03,780 --> 00:52:07,678
At the time, about 33,000 whales
a year were being killed.

930
00:52:07,747 --> 00:52:12,270
We got it down eventually
to about 330, 1% of that amount.

931
00:52:12,347 --> 00:52:15,710
It's now going back up again.

932
00:52:15,781 --> 00:52:19,043
There has to be a new generation
that takes over from here.

933
00:52:19,114 --> 00:52:21,739
There's only so many Ric O'Barrys
and Roger Paynes.

934
00:52:21,815 --> 00:52:23,610
They're all in their 60s and 70s now,

935
00:52:23,681 --> 00:52:26,203
and there's not a lot
of people out there

936
00:52:26,282 --> 00:52:28,111
picking up where they've left off.

937
00:52:35,150 --> 00:52:36,479
I like this.

938
00:52:36,549 --> 00:52:39,242
It sinks very slowly, this line.

939
00:52:39,316 --> 00:52:40,474
It does sink, but it's very slow,

940
00:52:40,550 --> 00:52:42,777
so I just put a couple weights on it.

941
00:52:42,850 --> 00:52:45,645
We're going to have these two
hydrophones connected to it.

942
00:52:45,717 --> 00:52:47,649
- One thing, though.
- Yeah.

943
00:52:47,717 --> 00:52:49,080
I took all the other stickers off, see?

944
00:52:49,151 --> 00:52:50,139
Go on the...

945
00:52:50,217 --> 00:52:51,274
"Please return dry."

946
00:52:51,351 --> 00:52:52,543
Yeah, let's take the sticker off.

947
00:52:52,618 --> 00:52:53,606
Okay? Jesus.

948
00:52:54,684 --> 00:52:59,981
(03) 3224-5000.

949
00:53:00,985 --> 00:53:04,179
That's the cell phone number
for the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo

950
00:53:04,252 --> 00:53:09,378
as well as the cell phone numbers
of our other two phones,

951
00:53:09,453 --> 00:53:12,907
just in case something shits the bed.

952
00:53:15,219 --> 00:53:17,980
When we very discreetly
leave the hotel room

953
00:53:18,053 --> 00:53:21,178
with four or five guys
dressed in black

954
00:53:21,254 --> 00:53:23,277
with camera equipment,

955
00:53:23,354 --> 00:53:25,081
we have it timed really well.

956
00:53:25,154 --> 00:53:26,847
We know when the guard turns up.

957
00:53:26,921 --> 00:53:29,386
We know how far the cop
is going to be behind us.

958
00:53:29,454 --> 00:53:31,147
We know how long
it takes the cops

959
00:53:31,221 --> 00:53:33,618
to get from the next village there.

960
00:53:33,688 --> 00:53:36,279
It was probably
the scariest night of my life

961
00:53:36,355 --> 00:53:38,082
because we'd been up
many days in a row

962
00:53:38,155 --> 00:53:39,212
preparing for this.

963
00:53:39,288 --> 00:53:41,049
We're exposed out there.

964
00:53:41,122 --> 00:53:43,315
There's very few places we could hide.

965
00:56:09,169 --> 00:56:10,429
Joe.

966
00:56:31,304 --> 00:56:32,530
Here you go.

967
00:56:33,638 --> 00:56:35,297
Come on. Let's go. Go.

968
00:56:36,405 --> 00:56:37,927
Holy Christ.

969
00:56:39,439 --> 00:56:40,563
Nice work.

970
00:56:40,639 --> 00:56:42,434
Jesus.

971
00:56:43,872 --> 00:56:45,735
100% of the people in the vehicle?

972
00:56:45,806 --> 00:56:47,294
It's a good night.

973
00:56:47,373 --> 00:56:48,668
That's a good night.

974
00:56:57,606 --> 00:56:58,594
Me?

975
00:56:59,641 --> 00:57:00,970
I don't know.

976
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,131
I don't know.

977
00:57:02,207 --> 00:57:03,230
Not me.

978
00:57:03,307 --> 00:57:05,239
At midnight, I'm sleeping.

979
00:57:14,675 --> 00:57:15,663
I don't know.

980
00:57:15,742 --> 00:57:17,037
I cannot speak for OPS.

981
00:57:17,109 --> 00:57:19,700
I can only speak for Ric O'Barry.

982
00:57:19,775 --> 00:57:22,832
I cannot speak
for anybody except myself.

983
00:57:22,909 --> 00:57:25,000
At midnight, I'm sleeping.

984
00:57:25,075 --> 00:57:26,335
No, no, no.

985
00:57:27,676 --> 00:57:29,005
I don't know.

986
00:57:30,310 --> 00:57:31,570
I'm not OPS.

987
00:57:31,644 --> 00:57:33,371
I'm not OPS, no.

988
00:57:34,811 --> 00:57:35,935
Well, I do interviews.

989
00:57:36,011 --> 00:57:37,772
Anybody who wants to talk to me,

990
00:57:37,844 --> 00:57:39,332
- I will talk to them.
- Yes?

991
00:57:39,410 --> 00:57:42,501
OPS wants to talk to me,
I talk to them.

992
00:57:42,578 --> 00:57:45,373
I talk to anybody
about mercury poisoning.

993
00:57:48,545 --> 00:57:49,737
- Thank you.
- Okay.

994
00:57:49,812 --> 00:57:51,175
Thank you so much for your time.

995
00:57:51,245 --> 00:57:53,177
- Bye-bye.
- Bye-bye.

996
00:58:03,313 --> 00:58:07,336
I think the most horrifying thing
about the whole dive that night

997
00:58:07,413 --> 00:58:08,901
was that, you know,
you could hear them

998
00:58:08,980 --> 00:58:11,275
communicating with each other,

999
00:58:11,346 --> 00:58:15,176
and you knew that that next morning
that would be the end of it.

1000
00:58:15,247 --> 00:58:17,440
They'd be silenced forever.

1001
00:58:19,748 --> 00:58:23,111
They're always trying
to communicate with us,

1002
00:58:23,182 --> 00:58:24,273
and that's hard to explain,

1003
00:58:24,348 --> 00:58:25,336
but when you live with them

1004
00:58:25,415 --> 00:58:27,846
like I did on the Flipper TV show
day and night,

1005
00:58:27,915 --> 00:58:30,813
I could read that body language.

1006
00:58:37,016 --> 00:58:38,447
There's something visceral

1007
00:58:38,516 --> 00:58:41,948
about being in the water
with an animal like this.

1008
00:58:42,017 --> 00:58:43,414
As a scientist,

1009
00:58:43,483 --> 00:58:47,279
I'm trained to recognize intelligence
through objective measures...

1010
00:58:47,350 --> 00:58:49,145
tool use, cognitive processes,
and so on.

1011
00:58:49,217 --> 00:58:50,477
As a human being,

1012
00:58:50,551 --> 00:58:55,006
when I see a dolphin looking at me
and his eyes tracking me

1013
00:58:55,084 --> 00:58:57,606
and I lock eyes with that animal,

1014
00:58:57,684 --> 00:59:00,013
there's a human response
that makes it undeniable

1015
00:59:00,084 --> 00:59:02,641
that I'm connecting
with an intelligent being.

1016
00:59:04,985 --> 00:59:08,473
Science has been tantalized for years
at the prospect of talking

1017
00:59:08,553 --> 00:59:10,576
to the most intelligent
creatures on earth,

1018
00:59:10,653 --> 00:59:12,084
which may not be human beings.

1019
00:59:12,152 --> 00:59:13,549
A small group of scientists

1020
00:59:13,619 --> 00:59:15,948
determined to see
if humans and dolphins

1021
00:59:16,020 --> 00:59:17,576
can learn to talk to each other.

1022
00:59:17,653 --> 00:59:22,449
We keep spending billions of dollars
for sending signals up into the sky,

1023
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:23,951
and we have a species here

1024
00:59:24,020 --> 00:59:27,782
that can conceivably be
more intelligent than we are.

1025
00:59:36,655 --> 00:59:39,712
Dolphins can understand
how to manipulate situations,

1026
00:59:39,788 --> 00:59:41,151
how to relate to people,

1027
00:59:41,222 --> 00:59:45,813
how to create innovatively
out of their own imagination.

1028
00:59:45,889 --> 00:59:47,184
It sometimes amazes me

1029
00:59:47,255 --> 00:59:48,845
that the only language

1030
00:59:48,923 --> 00:59:51,082
which has been extensively
taught to dolphins

1031
00:59:51,156 --> 00:59:53,179
is a version of
American Sign Language,

1032
00:59:53,256 --> 00:59:54,653
which, of course,
you use your hands,

1033
00:59:54,723 --> 00:59:56,484
so you have
all these wonderful signals,

1034
00:59:56,557 --> 00:59:59,352
and people use their hands
to give messages to dolphins.

1035
01:00:00,924 --> 01:00:02,981
And this somehow
kind of misses the point

1036
01:00:03,057 --> 01:00:05,148
because dolphins don't have hands,

1037
01:00:05,224 --> 01:00:08,156
so this is inherently
a very one-way process.

1038
01:00:08,224 --> 01:00:09,951
And it's this anthropomorphic

1039
01:00:10,025 --> 01:00:12,855
"We have something
to teach them or control them,"

1040
01:00:12,925 --> 01:00:15,948
and perhaps we ought to be looking
at what they can give to us.

1041
01:00:18,659 --> 01:00:21,181
It's not about intelligence.

1042
01:00:21,259 --> 01:00:23,918
It's about consciousness.

1043
01:00:23,992 --> 01:00:28,424
They are self-aware,
like humans are self-aware.

1044
01:00:28,493 --> 01:00:30,322
That means that we look in the mirror,

1045
01:00:30,393 --> 01:00:33,325
and we know exactly
what we're looking at.

1046
01:00:33,393 --> 01:00:37,485
I don't believe that the fishermen
here are aware of that.

1047
01:00:42,327 --> 01:00:43,917
When they're in that killing cove

1048
01:00:43,994 --> 01:00:47,119
and their babies are being
slaughtered in front of them,

1049
01:00:47,195 --> 01:00:48,785
they're aware of that.

1050
01:00:48,861 --> 01:00:53,089
They can anticipate
what's going to happen to them.

1051
01:01:38,632 --> 01:01:42,997
The first time I went to Taiji
was in 1980,

1052
01:01:43,066 --> 01:01:46,429
and I had been to Iki the year before.

1053
01:01:46,500 --> 01:01:50,523
Iki is a tourist destination for Japanese

1054
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:52,532
which became infamous

1055
01:01:52,601 --> 01:01:56,328
for this... most ghastly
slaughters of dolphins.

1056
01:01:56,401 --> 01:02:00,026
I mean, literally thousands of them
would... could be killed in a day.

1057
01:02:04,101 --> 01:02:08,329
Well, I went back to Iki
about three years ago,

1058
01:02:08,402 --> 01:02:10,163
and they don't have any dolphins,

1059
01:02:10,236 --> 01:02:15,066
where once they had thousands of them
streaming by the coast.

1060
01:02:23,204 --> 01:02:24,965
Irony of ironies.

1061
01:02:25,037 --> 01:02:29,436
Because the international
captivity trade is so lucrative,

1062
01:02:29,504 --> 01:02:31,561
they want to be in on it,

1063
01:02:31,637 --> 01:02:34,603
and they don't have any dolphins.

1064
01:02:36,338 --> 01:02:38,531
They have to have dolphins
for their dolphin parks,

1065
01:02:38,605 --> 01:02:41,503
so they go buy them in Taiji now.

1066
01:02:44,039 --> 01:02:47,199
Every cetacean known to man
is endangered

1067
01:02:47,272 --> 01:02:49,329
just by going anywhere near Japan.

1068
01:02:53,473 --> 01:02:57,872
We asked the Taiji fishermen
if we could subsidize this activity...

1069
01:02:57,940 --> 01:03:00,701
in other words, if you leave the boats
tied up at the dock,

1070
01:03:00,774 --> 01:03:02,740
we'll pay you the same amount of money

1071
01:03:02,807 --> 01:03:06,864
you would have made
killing dolphins in Taiji.

1072
01:03:06,941 --> 01:03:10,203
They got back to us and said
"It's not about money.

1073
01:03:10,274 --> 01:03:13,434
It's about pest control."

1074
01:03:13,508 --> 01:03:14,803
Pest control.

1075
01:03:14,875 --> 01:03:16,898
In other words,

1076
01:03:16,975 --> 01:03:19,463
they're being told by the government

1077
01:03:19,542 --> 01:03:24,372
that the dolphin are
eating too much fish in the ocean.

1078
01:03:32,543 --> 01:03:38,533
This is not attempt
just to incriminate whales as a bad guy.

1079
01:03:38,610 --> 01:03:44,304
However, we cannot ignore
the fishing effort has been decreasing.

1080
01:03:44,377 --> 01:03:50,139
It's seriously hard to take that
PowerPoint demonstration seriously.

1081
01:03:50,212 --> 01:03:54,372
I have to tell you
that there is very strong evidence

1082
01:03:54,445 --> 01:03:58,207
that whales are consuming
huge quantities of fish

1083
01:03:58,278 --> 01:04:01,176
that are also the target of fisheries.

1084
01:04:01,246 --> 01:04:03,541
The Government of Brazil
wants to put on record

1085
01:04:03,613 --> 01:04:05,545
that to us it certainly amounts

1086
01:04:05,613 --> 01:04:08,636
to what only can be described
as biological nonsense.

1087
01:04:08,713 --> 01:04:11,178
It is clear that the fisheries
of the world are on decline,

1088
01:04:11,247 --> 01:04:14,145
and the obvious culprit is people,

1089
01:04:14,214 --> 01:04:16,736
and we don't want to acknowledge that.

1090
01:04:25,515 --> 01:04:29,504
We look at the ocean
as a source of infinite quality seafood,

1091
01:04:29,582 --> 01:04:31,673
and I think we're learning
some hard lessons

1092
01:04:31,748 --> 01:04:33,008
that this isn't true.

1093
01:04:36,649 --> 01:04:39,342
We're pulling the fish
out of the ocean at such a rate

1094
01:04:39,416 --> 01:04:42,177
and eroding and diminishing
our marine ecosystems

1095
01:04:42,250 --> 01:04:44,977
so bad that the whole
thing could collapse.

1096
01:04:58,518 --> 01:05:01,450
70% of human beings,
seven out of ten people,

1097
01:05:01,518 --> 01:05:04,245
rely as their principal
protein on seafood.

1098
01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:09,417
If we lose access to fish in the sea,

1099
01:05:09,486 --> 01:05:13,441
we will be causing
the biggest public health problem

1100
01:05:13,519 --> 01:05:15,984
human beings have ever faced.

1101
01:05:21,253 --> 01:05:25,447
The Japanese literally control
the world marketplace in fish.

1102
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:29,452
They have buyers in every
major port in the world.

1103
01:05:29,521 --> 01:05:33,886
They're catching their fish
from an ever-depleting supply,

1104
01:05:33,955 --> 01:05:37,853
and I think they have a real fear
that they will run out of food.

1105
01:05:39,754 --> 01:05:43,982
What more logical thing could they do
than catch whales to replace them?

1106
01:05:45,455 --> 01:05:50,547
International Whaling Commission
is essentially killing

1107
01:05:50,622 --> 01:05:54,952
coastal small-type
whaling communities like Taiji.

1108
01:06:07,024 --> 01:06:12,218
This body should seriously consider
the proposal that is before us.

1109
01:06:12,291 --> 01:06:16,348
Dominica would like to compliment
the Japanese delegation.

1110
01:06:16,425 --> 01:06:17,947
We strongly support the proposal.

1111
01:06:18,025 --> 01:06:21,457
Antigua and Barbuda
supports this declaration in its entirety.

1112
01:06:21,525 --> 01:06:24,047
Do we have any concern, any sympathy

1113
01:06:24,125 --> 01:06:25,988
for the plight of the people of Japan?

1114
01:06:26,059 --> 01:06:28,889
This is an opportunity to help Japan.

1115
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:32,154
We could help the Japanese cause
and the people of Taiji.

1116
01:06:32,227 --> 01:06:36,125
We therefore urge this IWC to grant...

1117
01:06:36,193 --> 01:06:39,216
...their basic request
for them to engage in whaling.

1118
01:06:39,293 --> 01:06:43,191
And therefore, St. Kitts and Nevis
support this proposal.

1119
01:06:43,261 --> 01:06:44,521
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

1120
01:06:44,594 --> 01:06:49,652
In my opinion, this has
been sufficient enough time

1121
01:06:49,728 --> 01:06:55,218
to allow for the replenishment
of species... of certain species...

1122
01:06:55,295 --> 01:06:56,487
which were in decline

1123
01:06:56,562 --> 01:06:58,891
and some others which were
nearing extinction.

1124
01:06:58,962 --> 01:07:03,190
There are several facets in the interests
out of Antigua in whaling.

1125
01:07:03,263 --> 01:07:04,558
First of all, the government

1126
01:07:04,629 --> 01:07:06,595
is presently interested
in the whaling commission

1127
01:07:06,662 --> 01:07:09,321
because the Japanese government's
paying them to be interested.

1128
01:07:10,530 --> 01:07:12,927
The Japanese government
and their agencies

1129
01:07:12,997 --> 01:07:16,394
go to small bankrupt nations

1130
01:07:16,464 --> 01:07:19,294
and offer them financial support,

1131
01:07:19,364 --> 01:07:20,852
offer them whatever it takes,

1132
01:07:20,930 --> 01:07:23,555
firstly to get them to join the IWC

1133
01:07:23,631 --> 01:07:25,994
and then, when they get here,
to vote for Japan.

1134
01:07:26,065 --> 01:07:29,293
This is how whaling
in the 21st century works.

1135
01:07:29,365 --> 01:07:31,354
What kind of whales
pass through Antigua?

1136
01:07:31,432 --> 01:07:33,625
We have...

1137
01:07:33,699 --> 01:07:34,857
I think the Commissioner might be...

1138
01:07:34,932 --> 01:07:36,023
I think there's
some humpback whales...

1139
01:07:36,099 --> 01:07:37,122
- Yes.
...that pass through Antigua.

1140
01:07:37,199 --> 01:07:38,391
I'm not sure of the details

1141
01:07:38,466 --> 01:07:39,658
of the whales that pass
through Antigua

1142
01:07:39,732 --> 01:07:41,630
at this point in time,
but there are whales

1143
01:07:41,700 --> 01:07:43,325
that pass through our waters
from time to time.

1144
01:07:43,399 --> 01:07:44,796
I have seen only...

1145
01:07:44,867 --> 01:07:48,196
My only interaction with whales
are what I see on television.

1146
01:07:49,267 --> 01:07:54,564
It is so transparent to even the least
perspicacious onlooker

1147
01:07:54,634 --> 01:07:59,862
that they have prostituted themselves
for a few yen.

1148
01:08:02,268 --> 01:08:06,791
The Japanese government
pays our fees, our annual fees,

1149
01:08:06,869 --> 01:08:10,029
for participation in the International
Whaling Commission.

1150
01:08:10,102 --> 01:08:12,329
It has nothing to do with nutrition.

1151
01:08:12,402 --> 01:08:14,959
It simply has to do with the fact
that "You voted for us,

1152
01:08:15,035 --> 01:08:17,466
"so let's give you something
that you people can see

1153
01:08:17,536 --> 01:08:19,899
"that it was worth your while
to sell your vote to us...

1154
01:08:19,970 --> 01:08:21,196
fisheries complexes."

1155
01:08:24,470 --> 01:08:28,129
Interestingly,
the fisheries complexes built by Japan

1156
01:08:28,203 --> 01:08:29,691
have already gone into disuse

1157
01:08:29,770 --> 01:08:33,361
because it has nothing to do with fishing.

1158
01:08:33,438 --> 01:08:35,199
One neighbor got the goodies,

1159
01:08:35,271 --> 01:08:38,169
and every other neighbor
wants a part of the goodies.

1160
01:08:38,238 --> 01:08:40,499
Every island
in the Eastern Caribbean...

1161
01:08:40,571 --> 01:08:42,696
St. Kitts, Antigua,
St. Vincent., St. Lucia,

1162
01:08:42,771 --> 01:08:44,066
Grenada, Dominica...

1163
01:08:44,138 --> 01:08:45,899
we all have the same goodies.

1164
01:08:47,072 --> 01:08:50,663
In Dominica, we have a $22 million
fisheries complex

1165
01:08:50,739 --> 01:08:54,535
which is used for the local merchants
to store imported chicken.

1166
01:08:57,573 --> 01:09:01,335
It's very sad to see the beautiful
islands in the Caribbean

1167
01:09:01,406 --> 01:09:05,997
becoming neon-lit whorehouses
for the Japanese.

1168
01:09:07,307 --> 01:09:09,500
It really runs counter to logic

1169
01:09:09,574 --> 01:09:10,869
why the Japanese continue

1170
01:09:10,941 --> 01:09:14,464
to keep this dying
whaling business going,

1171
01:09:14,541 --> 01:09:16,473
especially when you get the facts

1172
01:09:16,542 --> 01:09:17,973
about the levels of mercury

1173
01:09:18,041 --> 01:09:20,030
and other contaminants
in the meat.

1174
01:09:20,108 --> 01:09:22,573
I visited Japan earlier this year,

1175
01:09:22,642 --> 01:09:25,971
and I discovered that there
was another peculiar reason

1176
01:09:26,042 --> 01:09:28,473
for the Japanese position
at the IWC.

1177
01:09:28,543 --> 01:09:31,771
This has not got to do
with economics.

1178
01:09:31,843 --> 01:09:34,331
it hasn't even got to do with politics.

1179
01:09:34,409 --> 01:09:37,102
It really has to do with the...

1180
01:09:37,177 --> 01:09:41,473
the remnants
of a traditional notion of empire.

1181
01:09:41,544 --> 01:09:44,101
They had had enough of the West

1182
01:09:44,177 --> 01:09:47,007
telling them what to do
and how to do it and when to do it.

1183
01:09:47,078 --> 01:09:49,441
"Well, you're not going to make us
stop killing whales."

1184
01:09:50,678 --> 01:09:54,701
There's some kind of misplaced
nationalistic pride at work.

1185
01:09:54,778 --> 01:09:57,073
It's an industry that is
massively subsidized

1186
01:09:57,145 --> 01:09:58,371
by Japanese taxpayers,

1187
01:09:58,445 --> 01:10:00,343
and when you have those sorts
of subsidies in place,

1188
01:10:00,412 --> 01:10:02,139
you invite corruption.

1189
01:10:02,212 --> 01:10:06,508
In order to perpetuate
this cultural argument,

1190
01:10:06,579 --> 01:10:08,511
the Taiji dolphin hunters

1191
01:10:08,579 --> 01:10:11,841
started giving
the dolphin meat away free

1192
01:10:11,913 --> 01:10:13,572
to the school system.

1193
01:10:13,647 --> 01:10:16,010
They're getting this
in a form of propaganda.

1194
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,409
They're not being told

1195
01:10:17,480 --> 01:10:19,877
that the free lunchmeat
that their children are getting

1196
01:10:19,947 --> 01:10:23,209
are contaminated
with high levels of mercury.

1197
01:10:23,281 --> 01:10:25,678
Are you aware
of the Mayor of Taiji's plan

1198
01:10:25,748 --> 01:10:27,304
to distribute dolphin meat
throughout Japan

1199
01:10:27,381 --> 01:10:28,869
to Japanese children?

1200
01:10:30,215 --> 01:10:33,511
I think you...
correctly misunderstood.

1201
01:10:33,582 --> 01:10:34,673
Did I?

1202
01:10:34,749 --> 01:10:37,874
You perfectly misunderstood.

1203
01:10:50,817 --> 01:10:53,647
Two city council members
came out on record.

1204
01:10:53,717 --> 01:10:55,342
They risked their...

1205
01:10:55,417 --> 01:10:57,905
if not their lives,
their livelihood to speak out.

1206
01:11:20,987 --> 01:11:22,782
There's a saying in Japan

1207
01:11:22,853 --> 01:11:26,376
that says the nail that sticks out
must be pounded down,

1208
01:11:26,454 --> 01:11:27,783
and so it's a real problem

1209
01:11:27,853 --> 01:11:30,910
just to stand up
and be counted in Japan.

1210
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:36,382
There's no environmental movement
working actively on this issue

1211
01:11:36,454 --> 01:11:40,113
that has any kind
of power at all in that country.

1212
01:11:40,188 --> 01:11:42,449
We are dumping in the environment

1213
01:11:42,522 --> 01:11:46,818
all kinds of chemicals
like mercury, cadmium, lead.

1214
01:11:46,889 --> 01:11:48,286
We have the obligation...

1215
01:11:48,356 --> 01:11:51,322
We have a moral authority
to do something about it.

1216
01:11:51,389 --> 01:11:52,480
In a few years,

1217
01:11:52,556 --> 01:11:54,351
we may look back
and wonder what we did,

1218
01:11:54,422 --> 01:11:58,354
allowing more and more tons
of meat to be consumed.

1219
01:11:58,423 --> 01:12:00,184
We have a moral obligation,

1220
01:12:00,257 --> 01:12:03,018
and let it not be said
that you didn't know about it.

1221
01:12:03,090 --> 01:12:04,350
You know about it.

1222
01:12:05,824 --> 01:12:10,086
To me, you're either an activist
or an inactivist,

1223
01:12:10,157 --> 01:12:11,850
and I wanted to be active.

1224
01:12:11,924 --> 01:12:13,856
I wanted to stop this.

1225
01:12:52,161 --> 01:12:53,683
I recognize it. Do you?

1226
01:12:53,761 --> 01:12:56,124
8335. Yeah, I do recognize it.

1227
01:12:56,195 --> 01:12:58,717
I think it was the double
channels. Yep.

1228
01:13:00,328 --> 01:13:01,884
Can you go straight?

1229
01:13:03,263 --> 01:13:05,024
They're doing a circle.

1230
01:13:05,096 --> 01:13:06,527
Let's take a quick break.

1231
01:13:06,596 --> 01:13:07,584
Quick, quick, quick, quick.

1232
01:13:07,663 --> 01:13:11,220
- It's 766. It's the cop.
- Is it?

1233
01:14:53,373 --> 01:14:55,396
Louie, Louie, are you there?

1234
01:15:43,644 --> 01:15:45,337
Yeah, that's cool.

1235
01:15:54,912 --> 01:15:56,241
Set it down.

1236
01:20:30,870 --> 01:20:36,360
There was kind of a collective horror
when we started to see the footage.

1237
01:20:36,437 --> 01:20:38,494
It was mind-boggling.

1238
01:20:41,737 --> 01:20:43,293
They're doing it exactly

1239
01:20:43,371 --> 01:20:44,893
like they did with the large whales.

1240
01:20:44,971 --> 01:20:47,596
they're slaughtering
every one they can get.

1241
01:21:37,243 --> 01:21:39,504
Why didn't they set them free?

1242
01:21:44,411 --> 01:21:48,707
That question has kept me
awake for a long time.

1243
01:21:58,078 --> 01:21:59,771
I've watched them give birth.

1244
01:21:59,844 --> 01:22:03,833
I've nursed them back to health
when they're sick.

1245
01:22:05,478 --> 01:22:07,909
Had I known what I know now,

1246
01:22:07,979 --> 01:22:09,410
I would have raised enough money

1247
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:11,240
to buy them away
from the Seaquarium

1248
01:22:11,313 --> 01:22:12,505
and set them free.

1249
01:22:12,580 --> 01:22:15,068
That would have been
the right thing to do.

1250
01:22:15,147 --> 01:22:18,806
I was buying
a new Porsche every year.

1251
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:24,574
But I was as ignorant as I could be
for as long as I could be.

1252
01:22:24,647 --> 01:22:28,443
I didn't think about that
for a long time later.

1253
01:22:34,915 --> 01:22:36,107
Listen to me.

1254
01:22:36,182 --> 01:22:39,376
Our killing method
has been improved substantially,

1255
01:22:39,449 --> 01:22:41,540
and the fishermen in Taiji

1256
01:22:41,616 --> 01:22:43,809
are using specific-made knife

1257
01:22:43,883 --> 01:22:47,145
and put the... do that...
to the spine,

1258
01:22:47,215 --> 01:22:50,079
and then most of the animals
are killed instantly.

1259
01:22:50,150 --> 01:22:52,275
- Killed instantly?
- Yes.

1260
01:22:52,350 --> 01:22:55,282
And if they were killed
other than this method,

1261
01:22:55,350 --> 01:22:56,713
would that be cruel?

1262
01:22:59,717 --> 01:23:02,911
As I told you, I don't want to talk
about "if" stories.

1263
01:23:02,984 --> 01:23:06,212
I want to show you
some video that I just saw.

1264
01:23:31,254 --> 01:23:33,719
When and where did you take this?

1265
01:25:03,762 --> 01:25:06,694
I have to see this end in my lifetime.

1266
01:25:08,963 --> 01:25:12,952
Right now I'm focusing
on that one little body of water

1267
01:25:13,029 --> 01:25:16,086
where that slaughter takes place.

1268
01:25:16,163 --> 01:25:19,856
If we can't stop that,
if we can't fix that,

1269
01:25:19,930 --> 01:25:22,589
forget about the bigger issues.

1270
01:25:24,130 --> 01:25:25,459
There's no hope.

1271
01:30:14,957 --> 01:30:17,980
Subtitled By J.R. Media Services, Inc.
Burbank, CA

1272
01:30:21,858 --> 01:30:25,381
Everyone there,
show us your passport.

1273
01:30:25,458 --> 01:30:27,481
Hey. How are you?

1274
01:30:27,559 --> 01:30:29,149
Nice to see you.

1275
01:30:42,093 --> 01:30:45,218
So we went for...
for the children, you see.