MASKED THE COVE STAR RETURNS TO JAPAN
Marine activist RIC O’BARRY had to wear a mask to cover his face during a recent TV expose about Japan’s dolphin killers - because he feared attac k from fishermen who recognised him as one of the men behind Oscar-winnin g documentary THE COVE.
O’Barry agreed to take Oprah show TV cameras back to the hamlet where T he Cove is set as long as he could keep his identity under wraps.
The special, which aired as part of Oprah Winfrey’s Earth Day programme on Thursday (22Apr10), followed up on developments chronicled in The Cov e, which documented Japan’s annual bottle-nosed dolphin slaughter.
O’Barry said, "The fishermen told me… ‘If the world finds out what go es on here, we’ll be shut down.’" The activist confessed he feels obliged to help the world’s dolphins - because he helped capture and train them for beloved TV show Flipper in t he 1960s.
He revealed, "Now, if there’s a dolphin in trouble, anywhere in the wor ld, my phone will ring.
"I feel somewhat responsible because it was the Flipper TV series that created this multi-billion dollar industry."
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