Such metaphor.
This world does get stranger and stranger every single day. Who could ever have predicted that the World Surf League’s patented Wall of Positive Noise would sustain its first crack at the hands of Kolohe Andino and twenty-eight other signers of a petition to do away with the mid-year tour cut? That CEO Erik Logan would snarl back, white teeth gleaming, “NO!” That a captive dolphin would round on its trainer in front of applauding Floridian children while a surfer on Wavestorm panic paddled away?
But such are our times.
The woman who shot the clip of the dolphin told Miami’s Channel 7 News, ““[It] looked like the dolphin rammed into the trainer. There was a struggle, some kind of collision under water happened. The lady on the paddleboard, she paddled out of the water pretty quick, and then the lead trainer started swimming back towards the dock, and it looked like she got ran into a couple more times.”
People for the ethical treatment of animals responded, “Time is up for the Miami Seaquarium, where long-suffering dolphins desperately need protection and workers are at risk. PETA urges this abusement park to end its exploitation of dolphins by getting them to sanctuaries as quickly as possible, so that they’d never be used in tawdry shows again and no one else would get hurt.”
Who, in this tableau, is the professional surfers, who is ELo and who is the surf fan?
Such metaphor.
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What a stupid name for a dolphin.. “Sundance” they live in the water you knobs. This was clearly payback.
exactly, the narrative is pushed mostly by the family…. at least ir didnt evolve into a religion…
Wheres Pamela Anderson when you need her.
there s a myth in the amazon when chicks happen to find themselves pregnant they blame the ‘boto’ kind of a freshwater river dolphin…
Even these massively intelligent creatures, apparently, have a threshold that they won’t pass without kicking back. This would appear to be that day. They should get in touch with Ziff and tell him how to rejig the failing WSL business model. Surf above or below the water no worries. No cut line just a bucket load of fish and it keeps rolling and tumbling.
The witness’s quotes and the PETA-issued response are straight from your toolbox, Chas! I’m surprised the word “sordid” wasn’t used, but tip my cap to the use of the word “tawdry”
“Rounds viciously”
Elimination rounds?
The dolphin showed mercy unlike its captives.
Ha!
All are not surfers who paddle on Wavestorm foamies. I doubt that the sissy in the video has ever even paddled for a wave, much less ridden one.
Fantastic surf-adjacent reach though, by Chas.
I applaud his dedication to his art.