This is one of the nicest stories I have read in a while. And to think that some idiots in Congress want to make it easy again for commercial fishermen to kill dolphins in their nets.
From Reuters:
Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 100 metres (300 feet) off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand's North Island when the dolphins herded them -- apparently to protect them from a shark.NOTE FROM JOHN IN DC: It's obvious why Congress wants to kill them. Saving lives is very blue state.
"They started to herd us up, they pushed all four of us together by doing tight circles around us," Howes told the New Zealand Press Association.
Howes tried to drift away from the group, but two of the bigger dolphins herded him back just as he spotted a three-meter (nine feet) great white shark swimming towards the group.
"I just recoiled. It was only about 2 meters (6 feet) away from me, the water was crystal clear and it was as clear as the nose on my face," Howes said.
"They had corralled us up to protect us," he said.
The lifesavers spent the next 40 minutes surrounded by the dolphins before they could safely swim back to shore.
