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Swimming with Dolphins in Florida

If you want to swim with bottlenose and spotted dolphins, both
trained and wild, the Florida coast is an ideal destination.
Bottlenose and spotted dolphins are the most gentle and
intelligent mammals next to humans and even more when you meet
them. You'll be able to swim with dolphins when you visit them
in the Florida, Key Largo, Key West area, and Miami, Fort
Lauderdale area.

You can choose from shallow-water swimming experiences with
trained dolphins and deep-water encounters with wild dolphins.
In shallow water enclave, you can spend time working with a
trainer from a platform, as the dolphins perform tricks on
command. You can also swim with the dolphins, as they will do
toe pushes and body rubs. You can enjoy dorsal fin rides and
snorkel with them.

Once the trained dolphin swim in captivity gives you an
understanding how the dolphins behave in a controlled
environment, you can go for wild dolphin encounter. You will
need to go out in the sea in a boat with an experienced guide
and boat captain, to find pods of wild bottlenose dolphins.

There are several facilities in Florida that offer the
opportunity to swim with dolphins, both trained and wild. One
such facility is Dolphins Plus, a dolphin research and education
facility located south of Miami in Key Largo. Dolphins Plus
houses 14 Atlantic bottlenose dolphins.

In the Florida Keys, there are three legally registered
facilities that offer you the opportunity to swim and interact
with dolphins - Theatre of the Sea, Dolphin Plus, and Dolphin
Research Center.

There are structured and non-structured swims with the dolphins
programs. In the structured program one can have an up front and
personal dolphin experience. You can swim, dance, kiss, and
enjoy a dorsal tow with the dolphins. In this swim, contact is
guaranteed with the dolphins.

Pregnant women are not allowed in the water.

The non-structured swim is only meant for snorkelers who are
comfortable in deep water. Since the dolphins in these sessions
are not trained, contact cannot be guaranteed. The Dolphins Set
the pace, and contact is up to them

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