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Neil Stead
10 November 2009
I was disappointed to see Ortis testing the underwater camera with captive dolphins.
The Atlantis hotel shipped their dolphins halfway around the world from the Solomon Islands, with no regard with the stress caused to them, just so that they could charge tourists upwards of £75 a time to swim with them.
Swimming with dolphins is, unfortunately, gaining in popularity, and these sort of facilities are popping up around the world. Most of them are in countries which have no legislation to cover animal welfare, and there have been some appalling stories of abuse.
Dolphins are used to roaming thousands of miles through the Oceans each year. Locking them up in facilities such as the one in Dubai is, in my view, a throwback to the times when we used to keep zoo animals in tiny cages, to pace back and forth and eventually go mad.
Please, whenever you're featuring animals in a program, do your research, and make your viewers aware of any issues such as these.
I know several Scuba divers who have vowed never to watch the Gadget Show again as a result of this week's show.
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Neil Stead
10 November 2009
I was disappointed to see Ortis testing the underwater camera with captive dolphins. The Atlantis hotel shipped their dolphins halfway around the world from the Solomon Islands, with no regard with the stress caused to them, just so that they could charge tourists upwards of £75 a time to swim with them. Swimming with dolphins is, unfortunately, gaining in popularity, and these sort of facilities are popping up around the world. Most of them are in countries which have no legislation to cover animal welfare, and there have been some appalling stories of abuse. Dolphins are used to roaming thousands of miles through the Oceans each year. Locking them up in facilities such as the one in Dubai is, in my view, a throwback to the times when we used to keep zoo animals in tiny cages, to pace back and forth and eventually go mad. Please, whenever you're featuring animals in a program, do your research, and make your viewers aware of any issues such as these. I know several Scuba divers who have vowed never to watch the Gadget Show again as a result of this week's show.
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