#captive dolphin

if you dont mind, can you explain how youre going to be released into the wild and integrate into a wild pod? do you mean it literally, and if so, how's that gonna work?

Ok, there is a pod in OCMD (the place I’m moving soon) and they are very friendly to people and stay within 2 miles of shore.

So when I move there I’m going to paddle board out in the early morning, and bond with the pod. Then one day, I’ll just put on my fins and swim out there. Every day I’ll do that, I’ll swim with them until I can’t, then go back to the land.

I will live as much of my life as I can swimming with my pod.

I'm Tilikum, Tokitae, and Winter factkin (all famous cetaceans) and I was wondering that if a plan like yours for going back to the wild might work for me

My plan so far is to become an orca trainer at SeaWorld Orlando and integrate with the pod there, but your plan seems a bit more up my alley

You think it's possible for me to at least become part of a pod of bottlenose dolphins?

I don’t see why not. If you can find a friendly pod, and the water is a temperature that you can handle without putting your life at risk, you might as well try.

So a little more detail on my plan, I want to get the dolphins accustom to my presence, slowly joining them in the water. This would be until I could fully swim with them without causing distress or hostility.

But I have, like you, considered working at an aquarium of some sort and integrating with that pod, but it seems less my style as well.