Dolphin

Four Black Sea countries - Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania and Ukraine - are taking part in a joint project aiming to increase the dolphin population in the Black Sea, reported the Bulgarian National Radio.

A small aircraft set off on a very special mission off the southern coast of Crete on June 3, to zigzag over hundreds of square kilometers just 180 meters from the surface of the sea for four to eight hours a day, through the summer.

Footage showing two dolphins dancing with humans in Turkish style was one of the most popular videos on social media on Aug. 13.

There are ghosts in the ocean. Silent killers carried by the currents, wrapping themselves around reefs and claiming the lives of millions of marine creatures great and small, from sponges and tiny crustaceans to dolphins, sharks and whales.

Experts with Greece's Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute removed up to 100 plastic bags from the belly of a whale that was found dead off the coast of the holiday island of Myconos, the body's director, Alexandros Frantzis, told Skai TV on Thursday.

Two dead dolphins have been thrown out the sea off the Salt Pans in Burgas for 24 hours, Flagman reported, referring to readers. The bodies have wounds most likely caused by gulus birds.

The owner of a scuba diving club has found a dead dolphin riddled with bullet wounds lying on the shore in the northwestern Turkish province of Kocaeli.

The Danaos cinema is screening "Dolphin Man," a documentary by Greece's Lefteris Charitos and France's Benoit Lichte that sheds light on the fascinating world of the late free-diver Jacques Mayol, who gained international prominence with Luc Besson's cult classic "The Big Blue." From the Mediterranean to Japan and from India to the Bahamas, the film introduces Mayol's closest friends and family

Inspectors from the Environment Ministry are challenging the legality of a display at the Attica Zoological Park's dolphin pool, which they say is a spectacle that contravenes animal protection laws and the privately owned zoo claims is part of an exercise program.

Swimming with wild dolphins is something most can only dream of, and jumping into pools with captive animals has become increasingly controversial with environmentalists condemning it as cruel.