Swimming with dolphins?
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I have done it twice at Sea World Orlando. It is not just specifically swimming with dolphins though it was a trainer for a day and marine mammal keeper program. All of the Seaworlds have these programs and there is a SeaWorld Texas in San Antionio and SeaWorld California in San Deigo. California also has Marineland. The other one I know about is the Discovery Cove in Orlando Florida which is specifically designed for people who want to swim with dolphins.
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The swimming was awesome.
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They are part of the food chain for many species, whether it be at the beginning or in the middle. If dolphins disappeared, certain species would become over populated, and others would die off.
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I would like to be a dolphin.They are such beautiful animals.But I would be any kind of animal.~lol~
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Check a aquarium. Also, you can check the Internet and if you live near the coast, there is probably going to be some sort of research center nearby that would have people who know a lot of stuff about dolphins.\nCheck www.dolphins.org\nIt's a dolphin research center, I think.
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tsk tsk tsk.  I'm so glad I'm out of school. \n\nNext time, start your project earlier!  \nDo a google search on dolphins to learn everything you need to know.
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Dolphins, orange?? with a little friendly fish??? lol
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DUDE ABOVE YOU NEED HELP___SORRY I AM NOT ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION !!! BUT THE DOLPHIN DUDE IS TOO WEIRD!!!!! HELP HIM GOD!!!
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I recommend you start learning while wearing fins.  It's a lot easier to get your timing correct if you have a powerful kick.  \n\nI always start teaching the body undulation.  Butterfly is not flat, your body . . . ripples from fingers to toes as you swim.\n\n1.  With fins, do 12x25m dolphin kick just under the surface of the water.  Hands out in front and time it as follows:\nKick once and press your chest down and forward in the water.  This will cause your torso to go down and your hips to come up.  Now kick again and arch your back, pointing your hands and face up at the surface of the water.  This will make your torso go up and your hips go down.  This "kick your body down, kick your body up" is one cycle of butterfly stroke.  At this point, you should look for the path of least resistance in the water.  It should all be easy and smooth and once cycle should take 3-4 seconds, not too fast.\n\nNow the pull.  With your hands out in front, shoulder width apart, press your hands down toward your waist (it's alright if they widen a little as they go down).  When your hands pass your shoulders on their way down, start bringing them in towards each other.  By the time your hands pass your belly button, the inside edges of your index fingers should touch.  Then, as your hands go toward your waist, push them out HARD so that by the time your arms are fully extended, your hands are brushing the outside of your hips.  That is butterfly pull (sounds complicated, but it's not so bad).\n\n2.  Still with fins, push of the wall, hands in front.  Start your pull as you KICK your head down.  Pull all the way down past your hips and glide as long as you can (you should be slightly underwater).  DON'T recover your arms.  Just do this one pull off the wall 20 times.  You want to get the feeling of combining a strong pull and a strong KICK to drive your head/torso slightly down and a lot FORWARD.  This drill should make you feel very strong.  \n\n2a.  When you have mastered (2), do this:  As you start your pull, pull your head out of the water and take a breath.  Your head should be out of the water as your hands are passing your shoulders.  Take your breath quickly, then turn your face to the bottom of the pool and drive your head/torso down and FORWARD.  Finish the pull and glide like in (2).  Do this 20 times.\n\n3.  Now we add the arm recovery and second kick.  Push off the wall and do the drill described above.  As your hands pass your belly button, KICK and point your face toward the surface.   Your body will rise as your hands push out to your hips (this is the time to breathe if you need it).  Now point your face towards the bottom of the pool and drive down and FORWARD.  The instant that you drive your body down  is when you bring your hands over the water back out in front of you and start the cycle over again.\n\nThe difficult thing about butterfly is timing.  Your kicks happen at about the beginning and 2/3 point of your pull, so you have to think about them both at the same time.  If you wait until your pull is done before you do your 2nd kick, butterfly will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hard.  \n\nThe other thing is to remember the 2 B4's: your head goes in the water BEFORE your hands, and comes out of the water BEFORE your hands.  \n\nGood luck, and remember to KICK.
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None.  Polar bears, North Pole.  Penguins, South Pole.  Kind of a long swim there just for a bite of penguin, donchya think ;-) ?
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dolphin lover? I hope you're talking about the team! Anywho, from my long list of experiences, jsut ask questions. been there, done that. The only way you could run out is if u think to much. Just go with the flow. You can add questions ON TOP on questions if that makes sense to you. She'll see you are interested in her and maybe she'll ask you some questions herself!
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do you swim alot? if you do you got swimmers ear
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Dolphins might also have an itch, and that's the best way they can deal with it since they don't have hands.
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That could be fun,just look arounnd the places/states you have trainers for such-Good luck!......U are such a nice fellow do not want the dolphine to be hurt.
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I dont live there . but come to Florida . Most of the state has swimming :)
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There are a lot of urban myths, this could be one. Still it is possible that a social animal like dolphins may try to help a human in distress. I suspect that they would easily detect our panic with their hearing. I doubt that it is totally instinctive since there is no apparent value to the dolphin. It could be play. Have you seen the footage of killer whales tossing seal cubs around as toys? Unfortunately there are records of dolphin pods fighting each other.
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It's a form of underwater swimming