Do dolphins really save drowning people?
There is no doubt that dolphins can and do rescue people in distress. The earliest record of dolphins saving people dates back to ancient Greece over 2000 years ago. The musician Arion was returning home by boat after winning a prize for singing. Some sailors threatened to kill him and steal his treasure. Arion persuaded them to let him sing one last song and as he sang, dolphins started to swim alongside the boat. Arion jumped into the water and was carried to safety by a dolphin. There are lots of modern-day stories about people being saved by dolphins from shark attack and other desperate situations at sea. The accounts all have one thing in common – the dolphins have helped people with no apparent benefit to themselves. Here are some of the documented accounts we know about. Last year, a group of four New Zealand lifeguards were convinced they had been protected from sharks by a group of dolphins who swam in tight circles around them, thus preventing the sharks from coming close en
