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NOAA is receiving public comments until October 23. We ask that you post your comment and vote for Option 1. All the other options are a complete ban to swimming with wild dolphins.

(Sample Letter 1:)

Dear NOAA;

In response to this proposal, I support Option 1. Your research is inconclusive and has obvious conflict of interest. The wild dolphins continue to swim up to people and engage us in swimming together. People and the wild dolphins of Hawaii have been swimming together for decades, even centuries, and we think it is a very positive thing for humans and dolphins alike. We invite you to scientifically examine, from in the water, the benefits of this behavior to both species in your next study.

(Sample Letter 2: With a few important questions)

Dear NOAA;

In response to this proposal, I support Option 1. Your research is inconclusive and has obvious conflict of interest. The wild dolphins continue to swim up to people and engage us in swimming together.

How much money and what other equipment loans or staffing was accepted by NOAA from Dolphin Quest, the captive dolphin swim facility with obvious benefit to this proposal?

Why does NOAA perceive a threat to the dolphins from human swim activity when it has adjudicated that the take of 11,000 Spinner Dolphins by navy testing and training activities will have only a negligible impact?

How many dolphins have died at captive dolphin swim facilities in Hawaii over the past ten years? How many specifically have died in Dolphin Quest facilities over the past ten years?

Why have you not included the research of the famous Dr. Kenneth Norris, who has much documented and peer reviewed research on the Hawaiian spinner dolphins?

Why don’t you include any research from in the water with the dolphins, where their behavior is much easier to observe, and where they spend 95% of their time?

People and the wild dolphins of Hawaii have been swimming together for decades, even centuries, and we think it is a very positive thing for humans and dolphins alike. We invite you to scientifically examine, from in the water, the benefits of this behavior to both species in your next study.

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