This is a statement to correct some of the mis-information being circulated by the offices of NOAA/NMFS regarding dolphin behaviors.

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As a dolphin researcher living here for 28 years, I have observed that:

Dolphins’ “sleep” patterns cannot be compared to human sleep patterns.

Dolphins never sleep. If they did they would cease to breathe and they would die.

They are conscious breathers, making every breath they take by choice and therefore they are never “asleep” (See neurological research of Dr. John C. Lilly)

Dolphins can rest parts of their brain while other parts always remain awake.

For example: When the Hawaiian Spinner dolphins residing along the west coast of the Big Island find a leaf floating in the water and bring it to us, they often have their eyes closed. They play with us and the leaves for hours at a time. Catching the leaf, draping it over their tail or dorsal fin or rostrum and swim it over to us, releasing it and waiting for us to catch it. Swimmers catch the leaf, dive with it, release it in the water and watch the dolphin come to catch it again. Throughout this process, they may or may not have their eyes closed. However they are awake and playful. (we have many hours of footage of this to show you.)

Therefore to claim that dolphins require specific times to sleep in the style of humans is incorrect.

Dolphins can play, rest, travel and feed whenever they choose. They play and rest simultaneously.

Here on the Kona side of the Big Island of Hawaii, we have always respected the protocol to protect dolphins. It has been in place among boat captains and swimmers since 1990.

Everyone here on the west coast of the Big Island follows these rules:
1. We never feed the dolphins.
2. We never touch the dolphins.
3. We do not use our arms swimming with an overhand stroke. We keep our arms quietly at our sides.
4. We do nothing that would startle the dolphins, which means we are gentle in the ocean.
5. We are respectful of other swimmers allowing each dolphin and human pair to have their own private encounter. Because of this the dolphins choose to swim with us every day.

Erroneous NOAA Statement - “Dolphins are put at risk of shark attacks”.

For 28 years I have witnessed dolphins and sharks swimming together. Especially the bottlenose dolphins, the Pilot whales and the oceanic sharks. They are not enemies. If for some reason an aberrant shark would make an aggressive move toward a dolphin, the dolphin immediately uses it’s sonar to locate the kidney or liver of the shark and at great speed, rams the shark and kills it. This is rarely required. Sharks are not enemies of the dolphins. Note: There are countless numbers of stories of dolphins escorting and protecting swimmers in the presence of a shark. This is to alleviate the fear of the swimmers so they can continue to swim calmly and return to land safely. The dolphins are not afraid of sharks.

Thank you for this opportunity to tell you about the Hawaiian Spinner dolphins who live here.

Joan Ocean, M.S.
October, 2016

If you can't swim faster than a dolphin, you may be going to jail next Summer... Please Share

You've probably heard about NOAA proposing changes to guidelines which could make it illegal to swim with wild dolphins. Like me, you probably assumed that your news outlet of choice could be trusted to be giving you the whole story. Unfortunately, it turns out not to be the case, allthough they may be forgiven for assuming it's safe to cut and paste the press release when it comes from a federal agency. I wouldn't have been any the wiser unless my very personal interest in these guidelines led me to actually read all the research papers and discover that the impression I had been getting from those headlines was missing some really important facts. 

5 Things you need to know about the proposed changes to guidelines on Wild Dolphin Swims in Hawaii. 

1) If this proposal goes through and a dolphin swims towards you, you'd better turn your back on it and start swimming away as fast as possible, since failure to keep 50 yards away will get you a minimum $27,000 fine and a year in jail. That's right, it's going to be a felony, so you're going to find getting a job tough and you may not be able to get a passport.

2) The "compelling" research that NOAA has referred to - (you may want to start noticing the fact they haven't use the words "conclusive", "proof" or "evidence" anywhere) was funded in part by DOLPHIN QUEST - the operator of captive dolphin swim programs with an enormous vested interest in becoming the only legal way that people can interact with dolphins. This fact was mysteriously missed off the slides at the public meetings and press releases, and a NOOA official actually denied it at the first public meeting in Hawaii, before her colleague grabbed the mike to reassure everybody "it was only a little bit of money, and right at the end. " When asked if there was a minimum level at which conflict of interest policy is triggered, she replied "we are not in the business of regulating scientists". *** see NOAA code of Scientific Conduct below

3)There is no evidence that the Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin population is on the decrease, not least because actually nobody can agree on a way to count the dolphins to come up with an accurate figure. Research has not shown that there is any direct let alone adverse correlation between Human Swim Activity and the health or population size of the Spinner Dolphins. To begin with, you don't need a PHD to know that research without control groups isn't good science. The study looking at this came up with their own guesstimate of how much rest dolphins need, applied that number universally to dolphins of all ages and activity levels and then calculated how much rest they were getting solely by observing the dolphins above the water. (And of course, only while they were watching them. ) All that being said, the study said that some of them were probably getting less but some of them were probably getting more than the estimated amount needed. The logic behind this proposed ban is the equivalent of the government deciding that watching tv and going out with friends is a public health risk and imposing a national curfew at sunset each night, keeping everyone inside, shutting off the power grid and the internet just to make sure people aren't socializing or entertaining themselves when they should be getting 8 hours of sleep every night. I'll hazard a guess that would certainly increase our population size. 

4) NOAA has authorized military training and testing activities which include sonar testing, and the detonation of various missiles underwater which will disturb the dolphins by deafening and disorienting them, preventing them from resting, diving, evading predators. feeding or mating. The majority of this is expected to have only temporary effects, although a small number of dolphins are expected to be fatally injured. Unlike the friendly human swimmers, the dolphins will be powerless to escape or avoid this form of harassment and yet NOAA has said that all of this, which will effect 11,000 Hawaiin Spinner dolphins over a 5 year period will have "negligible effect" - yet human swim activity is something to be very concerned about? 

5) NOAA's plans don't contain any checks or balances to make sure their theory was correct. At a minimum there should be a trial period for any changes, with an independent assessment of whether they have been effective in their goals. I think there is a good reason this hasn't been included. If you haven’t got a way to prove that human swim activity is doing any harm, you also won’t have a way to show that banning it has done any good.
 
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NOAA has spent an undisclosed amount of money on research to back an action plan to target the purely speculative risk posed to the dolphins by human swim activity. There has been no mention of any of the other known threats to the dolphins that are perhaps where NOAA should really be focussing its efforts. What about coming up with guidelines to address the effect on the dolphins of climate change, military testing, decreased food stocks, the threat posed by certain types of commercial fishing, industrial waste and pesticides polluting the dolphin's resting habitats. 

I believe some form of coordination and education around wild dolphins swim activity is appropriate in order to ensure that the rights of free dolphins to have free will encounters with humans is preserved for future generations of both species. The two options proposed by NOAA, do nothing or ban it altogether are woefully inadequate. Much more research should be done on the risks as well as the benefits to dolphins and humans of these free will encounters and the science exists to do it.
 
I support concsious and responsible encounters between humans and wild dolphins founded in an interspecies ethics perspective that sees our role as co-inhabitants and stewards of this planet but does not make the paternalistic and patronizing assumption that we have the automatic right to make decisions for sentient animals of extremely high intelligence .

Mirabai Galashan
mirabaigalashan@me.com

*** The NOAA CODE OF SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT. 18 requires that "All NOAA employees and contractors identified in Section 2.02 and all NOAA financial assistance award recipients and other NOAA research partners and collaborators identified in Section 2.03 will, to the best of their ability, be:
a Honest in all aspects of scientific effort and:
▪ Clearly differentiate between facts, personal opinions, assumptions, hypotheses, and professional judgment in reporting the results of scientific activities and characterizing associated uncertainties in using those results for decision-making, and in representing those results to other scientists, decisionmakers, and the public.
▪ Disclose any apparent, potential, or actual financial conflicts of interest or non-financial conflicts of interest of their own and others.
▪ Objectively consider conflicting data and/or studies.
▪ Acknowledge in publications the names and roles of those who made significant contributions to the research, including writers, funders, sponsors, and others who do not meet authorship criteria."

COMMENTS SENT ON 10/23/16:

I am writing to submits my comments and voice concern regarding the content and dissemination of the proposed regulations with regard to the Section 515 OMB guidelines.  (Federal Register: February 22, 2002, Volume 67, Number 36, pp. 8452‑8460)  and the OMB Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review (Bulletin) (Public Law 106-554).

A. The best available information does not support NMFS’s conclusion that the Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin population is at risk as a result of human swim activity.   

The proposal is based on a wholly unsubstantiated hypothesis that short-term behavorial response to human swim activity constitutes disturbance and may prove detrimental to the health, fitness and population of the Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins.   There are no data to evidence a direct correlation between human swim activity and any long term changes in behavior or health.  NMFS has manipulated public perception that such a risk exists by misrepresenting speculative conclusions in a small number of studies consisting of limited short-term observation of activity as evidence of disturbance to behavior that may be qualified as “take” in order to justify regulatory activity.

The agency itself admits  “Currently, long-term Hawaiian spinner dolphin residency and population monitoring data is insufficient to clearly identify whether individual dolphins are already showing long-term fitness impacts from disturbances within essential daytime habitats.”
The proposed guidelines state that “Scientific literature documents disturbance to individual spinner dolphins by swimmers and vessels (Forest 2001; Courbis and Timmel 2009), as well as changes in spinner dolphin groups’ behavioral patterns in essential daytime habitats over time (Courbis 2004, 2007; Timmel et al. 2008; Östman-Lind 2007; Danil et al. 2005; Forest 2001).”   

This statement is misleading at best since reading the cited studies reveals the following findings:

“Once spinner dolphin groups have descended into rest, their behavior becomes relatively consistent and resistant to change.” (Norris et al., 1994).

“The lack of significant correlation between levels of behavior and traffic may be because there is no relationship, the relationship between them is not linear, or there are motivations for aerial behavior aside from vessels and swimmers. Given the preliminary nature of our study and the small number of observation days we were able to fund, we believe this warrants further research.” “ We cannot directly link the increases in vessel and swimmer traffic in Kealake‘akua Bay to these changes in aerial behavior, it is likely that vessel and swimmer activity is at least synergistically involved in causing these changes. Whether these changes are affecting the survival and fitness of spinner dolphins is unknown.”  Courbis and Timmel 2009

"There were no statistically significant correlations between the mean number of any particular category of aerial behaviors per hour or the overall mean number of aerial behaviors per hour and the mean intensity of vessels/swimmers per hour.” Courbis 2004

Forest (2001) suggested that the reduction she found in aerial behavior might indicate diminished energy levels.vessels/swimmers per hour within 50m of the pod in any of the bay.” ibid

" because the sample size for this study was so small, i do not think it is appropriate to try to find a polynomial that describes the relationship." ibid

"a third possibility is that there are motivations for aerial behavior aside from vessel/swimmer approach (Norris et al, 1994), and aerial behaviors brought on by these alternative motivations confound the data. i think this is likely the situation." ibid

The cornerstone of the argument that dolphin are being deprived of essential rest and that the proposed regulations will enhance the health and fitness of the dolphins is entirely without substantiation.  
Johnson et al. (2013) assessed the influence of human activity on the energy budget of Hawaiian spinner dolphins using a theoretical model and comparing predictions from the model to empirical data collected in Kealakekua Bay on spinner dolphin behavior. Under the model, individual dolphins needed to spend at least 60 percent of their time inshore in a resting state to be in a positive energetic balance. Given this assumption, direct observations of spinner dolphins suggest that these animals are currently spending adequate amounts of time engaged in resting behaviors to meet their energetic requirements;  Johnson et al 2013

The use of aerial activity as an indicator of energy expenditure and sufficient rest cannot be interpreted without control data for dolphins during rest periods occurring without observation at other times during a 24 hour period.  Furthermore, these calculations are meaningless in the absence of correlation to the variability of energy budget by species, age, sex and differing demands on energy expenditure which vary widely and are continuously in flux according to specifics of species, age, sex, reproductive life, habitat, meteorological conditions, lunar cycle, pollution, water temperature, availability of prey, presence of predators, take by fishing and military training and testing activities to name but a few.

The proposals are noticeably lacking in heeding the almost universal recommendations of the research it cites that further study is necessary to understand potential impact on the dolphins from human activity.  Aside from aerial activity, there are other methodologies by which disturbance could be objectively assessed such as new field techniques that permit measurement of physiological responses from unrestrained cetaceans at sea, including measures of cardiac activity (Johnson and Tyack 2003) and body condition (Moore et al. 2001). 
The proposal does not include some of the most relevant and up to date research in this field, such as the 2015 study by Hartel, Constantine and Torres which has discredits the preferred option showing that static management boundaries as ineffective in conservation efforts with dolphins. 

Hartel, E. F., Constantine, R., and Torres, L. G. (2015) Changes in habitat use patterns by bottlenose dolphins over a 10-year period render static management boundaries ineffective. Aquatic Conserv: Mar. Freshw. Ecosyst., 25: 701–711. doi: 10.1002/aqc.2465.

The most notable omission however, is that the document makes no reference to single most promising, scientifically valid measurement tool for biological significance of behavioral change in dolphins in response to disturbance.    This break-through research describes the development of a mathematical model by which the impact from human swim activity could be objectively assessed and monitored.  

“Behavioural change in response to anthropogenic activities is often assumed to indicate a biologically significant effect on a population of concern. Disturbances can affect individual health through lost foraging time or other behaviours, which will impact vital rates and thus the population dynamics. However, individuals may be able to compensate for the observed shifts in behaviour, leaving their health and thus their vital rates and population dynamics, unchanged.. Behavioural change should not automatically be correlated with biological significance when assessing the conservation and management needs of species of interest. This strengthens the argument to use population dynamics targets to manage human activities likely to disturb wildlife.”
New, L. F., Harwood, J., Thomas, L., Donovan, C., Clark, J. S., Hastie, G., Thompson, P. M., Cheney, B., Scott-Hayward, L. and Lusseau, D. (2013), Modelling the biological significance of behavioural change in coastal bottlenose dolphins in response to disturbance. Funct Ecol, 27: 314–322. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12052

B) OBJECTIVITY AND FREEDOM FROM BIAS

 “First, in order for information to be considered objective, it must be presented in an accurate, clear, complete, and unbiased manner. Id. The agency must present the information in the proper context and identify the source (to the extent possible consistent with confidentiality protections) along with the supporting data or models so that the public can assess for itself whether there may be some reason to question the objectivity of the sources. 67 F.R. at 8459.  Second, the substance of information disseminated must be accurate, reliable and unbiased. Id. Agencies must identify the sources of the disseminated information, the methods used to produce it, and provide full, accurate, and transparent documentation. 67 F.R. at 8460.”

The NOAA policy on Integrity of Scientific activities 
requires that it must “Communicate scientific and technological findings by including a clear explication of underlying assumptions; accurate context of uncertainties; and a description of the probabilities associated with both optimistic and pessimistic projections, including best-case and worst-case scenarios, except in extraordinary or emergency situations.”
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Another area of serious concern is the bias that has been exhibited in the content and dissemination of the proposal. This proposal is clearly skewed towards worse case scenario speculations of risk and best case scenario postulations of “fitness-enhacing benefits” of the proposed regulations, entirely without evidence.

The histrionic portrayal of the Hawaiian Spinner dolphins as being harassed by swimmers “chasing” them is both biologically impossible, not factual as well as clearly biased.   Linguistic qualifiers such as “may” “could” and “might” have been skillfully deployed to sway public opinion justify these premature and draconian measures.   

Contrast this with the current letter of authorization to the Navy which asserts that 11,000 cases of harassment including disorientation and inability to feed, rest or reproduce caused by sonic injury, explosions and missiles amongst other unavoidable stressors will have a negligible effect on the Spinner population.  Yet the benign presence of humans that are effortlessly avoided is a dire threat to the well-being and existence of the population.

C) Transparency and freedom from conflict of interest

The NOOA CODE OF SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT. 18  requires that "All NOAA employees and contractors identified in Section 2.02 and all NOAA financial assistance award recipients and other NOAA research partners and collaborators identified in Section 2.03 will, to the best of their ability, be:
a Honest in all aspects of scientific effort and:
▪ Clearly differentiate between facts, personal opinions, assumptions, hypotheses, and professional judgment in reporting the results of scientific activities and characterizing associated uncertainties in using those results for decision-making, and in representing those results to other scientists, decisionmakers, and the public.
▪ Disclose any apparent, potential, or actual financial conflicts of interest or non-financial conflicts of interest of their own and others.
▪ Objectively consider conflicting data and/or studies.
▪ Acknowledge in publications the names and roles of those who made significant contributions to the research, including writers, funders, sponsors, and others who do not meet authorship criteria."
 This is an area of grave concern with regard to the fact that the Murdoch University SAPPHIRE research project which is a cornerstone of this proposal was co-funded by NOAA with Dolphin Quest, the privately held corporation that provides captive dolphin swims in the area under consideration, giving it an enormous bias and vested interest in sponsoring research that will support the enactment of regulations to prohibit wild dolphin swims.  This concern was voiced at the first public meeting, NOAA representatives were asked whether the research has been verified by certified independent experts and why Dolphin Quest was omitted from the funders listed on the power point slide regarding SAPPHIRE.   A member of NMFS staff initially denied that Dolphin Quest had provided funding, another employee stepped forward and contradicted her colleague by stating that ‘it was only a little bit and right a the end.’ When asked to clarify whether there is a minimum limit beneath which the NOAA conflict of interest policy does not apply, she responded “we are not in the business of regulating scientists’.   

The NOAA policy states that there is a requirement for public notice of peer reviews of information subject to the OMB Bulletin.  It states “NOAA will disclose the names of the reviewers and their affiliation in a report of findings and conclusions prepared by the peer reviewers. The report will be posted on the Department of Commerce Information Quality web site (http://www.osec.doc.gov/cio/oipr/info_qual.html). “    This link has been inaccessible since the day after the proposed regulations were published.  

Furthermore, the Dolphin Quest website refers that the Sapphire project as a study being carried out on the Kona Coast to collect data and then measure the effectiveness of the implementation of Time/Area Closure Management Actions.  The description of the study makes no mention that these are potential or proposed management actions.   Has NOAA in fact, already decided upon its course of action, it the invitation for public comment merely lip-service?   

D) RIR insufficiency of scope and lack of transparency
 
The Regulatory Impact Review is insufficient in its scope and does not fully address eceonomic impact of the proposed measures.  It cites as basis for its assessment scoping done in 2007 using social science methodology of informal conversation to estimate numbers of boat tour operators that would be affected.   In spite of many mentions of an increase in activity since then elsewhere in the report, there is no explanation of reproducible methodology to recreate estimates of economic impact.  Notably absent from the RIR, is the impact on hotel and lodging revenue and in particular the large number of BNB establishments, and the burgeoning AirBNB market in the bays that have been targeted which would be significantly affected .   A quantitative analysis of receipts from Harbor and Transient Accommodation  Tax would be a logical starting point.  Yet another highly significant sector missing from the RIR is the economic impact of the people who have moved to the Big Island specifically in order to be able to swim with the wild dolphins and would relocate elsewhere, if prohibited.   Bias also appears to be at work in the selection of individuals chosen to represent “local public opinion” and local “community” and the characterization of these opinions as being in favor of the regulations -once again without any disclosure of how these stake holders were selected.

E) INTERSPECIES IMPERIALISM AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Finally, I wish to raise the fact that the proposal has also failed to address interspecies ethical considerations with regard to imposing restrictions on the free movement and interaction at will with humans by one of the most intelligent species on the planet.   To interfere with the free agency of the dolphins in their interaction with humans is an outrageous act of paternalistic arrogance masquerading as environmental beneficence.  The imposition of such authority is disturbingly akin to the outrages inflicted by colonials and missionaries in the name of knowing what is best for others.  

In view of the concerns addressed above, I call for an immediate postponement to further action until the proposed guidelines are reviewed and brought into compliance with the relevant federal and agency guidelines governing the preparation and dissemination of influential information to the public, this would include disclosures around the funding by Dolphin Quest, and/or exclusion of this research from the proposal and a full review of the scientific evidence by certified independent experts.

Mirabai Galashan
wildlovewildlife@icloud.com
808-825-0858
Wild Dolphin Swims, Retreats and Ocean Photo Safaris 

THE PHENOMENON - Human - Dolphin Communication

This burgeoning phenomenon of an obviously benign activity (available to anyone open to experience it) of humans and dolphins interacting in playful ways that certainly indicates something that goes way beyond the wrongly identified, anthropomorphism.

This phenomenon may only be experienced transcendentally and shared in an atmosphere of serene peace and yes, profound love.

Those who’ve never felt this type of experience often just shine the possibility off immediately as nonsense, some reacting in non-caring ways of aggravation and even outrage at such a notion of humans communicating on actual levels of cognition between our species.

The base argument here seems to be:
EXPERIENTIAL AWARENESS vs. ASSUMED SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

It is safe to say that such an experience is considered life-altering for the experiencers and thus becomes something easily scoffed at by the reductionist mentality of science. However, “Science” can only account for 6% of the known universe from the macro to the microscopic. The rest is simply unknown “dark” stuff.

So, it means that one’s state of mind shifts to another level of awareness where,
- It is possible to have a conversation with a non-human on a profound level, something obvious to anyone who’s ever loved a pet.
- Granting the idea that there is a “Cetacean Nation” of consciousness amongst their sentient race. If so, it’s many millions of years older than our own.
Could it be possible they know something that we don’t about keeping the delicate balance of nature sustainable? Could they know something about the “other” aspects of our physical reality that quantum physicists recognize as multi-dimensional and possible states of being that yogis, priests and shamans have been describing for thousands of years?
What if they are, as the United Nations and a number of individual countries have already proclaimed as, “non-human people”?
These and many more possibilities arise to benefit both our species on this fragile ecosphere.

We need to LISTEN more carefully.

After more than 20 years observing this phenomenon from both a critical objective eye while keen to the experiential perception of human nature related to it, I can say with certainty there is something very real going on that is not just about what the humans get out of it.
I believe this is an equal exchange of both curiosity and projected feelings that is healthy for both sides.

What do they get out it you ask? I believe they are fascinated with what they can “see” through us.

Consider this, given what we already know:
- They are 90+% fully and freely (no tech) adapted to their immediate environments - over 3/4 of Planet Ocean.
- They are all about the social aspects of living together abundantly and playing together is what they seem to do the most.
- They are tribal in nature and live in societies in balance with nature, with no immediate predators (beside humans), with abundant food supplies, and lots of down time between intense food roundups and gorging orgies.
- They have intercourse for pleasure as well as procreational heat mating. The dolphins like having intercourse and do it anywhere they like, including riding the bow of a boat or in front of your snorkel face.
- They can shut down parts of their brain at a time for relaxing and go into ‘cruise control’ (usually one eye is closed) until they choose to sink into a deeper “sleep mode” (this appears to me from floating above, a profound peace in their energy field like a gathering of praying monks in deep meditation).
- They’ve evolved mental wetware (30+ million years worth of evolving a ‘perfected’ physical form that’s remained unchanged for over 12 million years) which completely outstrips even our most sophisticated hardware systems*.
- They have highly sophisticated sonar up to 7 miles in any direction that can also direct/receive a variable beam of sound energy vibration at any time*. They are hypersensitive to a range of subtle vibrational frequencies 100Xs greater than humans.
- They’ve developed this entirely unique “6th Sense” of the world that is infinitely more defined with sound waves** and vision slightly better than humans. Ultra-sonic Awareness! They are able to see us as transparent pulsating bodies emitting an entire spectra of vibrational frequencies, including emotional magnetic waves and electrical mental particle projections, as holographic in nature. Entire books of information appear at a glance to their magnificent minds. (More and more evidence emerges of their sonar beaming us having assisted in physical and mental healing).
- They have a native intelligence that operates perhaps more than 10Xs the speed of human processing consciousness. (Because they take in and process so much more information than we can begin to imagine. Human brains filter out 97+% of the world)
- They are Self-Aware of many multiple levels of consciousness and dimensions of being (mythologic to humans)
- They are Pod-Aware of a network of consciousness that permeates Planet Ocean.
- They have access to the Ancient Wisdom of Ages if desired/chosen to open such records held in trust by the Great Whales through the Eye of Infinity. Wisdom from the beginning of All That Is. (I could never make anyone believe that, but many humans have since long before the Ancient Greeks to the Australian Aborigine culture going back over 40K years.), i.e. Connectivity to and communion with all living things; Dreamtime awareness; multi-dimensional time-travel; inter dimensional intelligences; sage wisdom from all human thoughts recorded on a specific frequency band (KTAO.FM on your dial ;-) ).

This potential horizon of awareness may well lead humanity to a true planetary consciousness and with it a renewed respect for Gaia as the homogenous force that connects all living things in our biosphere. It’s time to invite Mother Nature back into the equation of who we are as a struggling species rampantly hurtling towards our own extinction.

I believe the Cetacea can help us regain that respect for our precious Planet Ocean now in such dire need of our loving attention.

Douglas Webster
Dolphinville.com

*sound energy vibrations as measured by Navy technology and used for everything to receiving and transmitting variable frequencies. Current unclassified tech is used for long range detection, transparent scoping and weaponry.

** sound waves travel more than 8Xs faster in water - with much higher degrees of scoping abilities.