# Dolphins save swimmers from shark

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-11-26T05:24:45Z


ReutersGreat Animal Story...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) - A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark, media reported on Tuesday.

Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 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. I love stories like this. The contrast between stories like this and all of the stories of humans hurting humans amazing.

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