Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.

The Cove exposes not only the tragedy of dolphin slaughtering in Japan, but also the dangerously high levels of mercury in dolphin meat and seafood, the cruelty in capturing dolphins for entertainment, and the depletion of our oceans fisheries by worldwide seafood consumption. We also see how the mandate of the International Whaling Commission has been manipulated by the Japanese Fisheries Agency for its benefit and its subsequent effect on the rest of the world.Shocking documentary on merciless killing of dolphins by Japanese.

The Ocean is an often unspoken disaster, very sad.....

Sometimes it seems Australia stands alone to stop the wale lull in the southern Oceans

This year the Japanese are using Military grade wepons to prevent the Steve Erwin and other protest vessels

from interfering with their activities.

Only last week the Steve E was on its way to Antarctica to intercept the Japanise fleet when it was shadowed by

a Japanese ship who brodcasted their loation to the whaling fleet preventing the Steve E locating it.

The Steve E, led the shadowing ship into pack ice in an attempt to slow it down, inside territorial waters and asked and

gained permission (sorry forget which country {maybe French}) but sent up their helicopter to shack the shadow and make

sure it was OK. As the helicopter approched the shadow ship it fired on the helicopter with an accoustic cannon ( a military grade weapon )

The pilot struggled to control his copter and returned to the Steve Ewirn. The Steve E contacted the territory and asked it any other ship had asked for or gained permission to enter their waters. They replied back that no request had been received and no permission given.