Source: DeeperBlue.com
Karol Meyer, world record holder freediver and considered "Best adventurer" by the international magazine GoOutside has not been drinking to have seen pink dolphins. She has stayed a week in the largest jungle in the world, the Amazon rainforest, with ESPN radical TV Channel and the reporter Renata Falzoni. The main purpose was take the trip with the winner of Mormaii Eyewear promotion, and contribute to the project called Amazon Project http://www.projetoamazonia.com.br/index_en.php which shows the beauty of this amazing place to young people and the importance of its conservation.
One of the "missions" was a dive with the most primitive species of dolphin, one of the five freshwater species of dolphins in the world, the pink Amazon River dolphin. The Amazon river dolphin is a mammal of the order Cetacea, native of the Amazon and of the coast of the Atlantic and the Pacific, similar to the sea dolphin.Karol freedived in the Negro river and found this so special pink dolphin incredibly intelligent and amiable. In an interview she recalls the words of Charles Darwin; "There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties. The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind. We have seen that the senses and intuition, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals."
She went on further to say "I'm very glad to be a Mormaii athlete and be part of this so important project. Even fully protected by law in Brazil and Bolivia and partially protected in other areas like Peru, Venezuela and Colombia, today the pink dolphins die due to commercial fishing where they use the dolphin's body to fish! The Amazonia, outside water and underwater have unparalleled biodiversity, and claim for a special attention from all of us. Beyond it, this biggest rainforest is our world "lungs"!
A complete programme will be shown in the beginning of 2010.