From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Richard Ric OBarry born c 1939 was first recognized in the 1960s for capturing and training the five dolphins that were used in the wellknown TV series Flipper OBarry made a radical transition from training dolphins in captivity to assertively combating the captivity industry soon after Kathy one of the Flipper dolphins died committing suicide in his arms according to OBarry In 1970 he founded the Dolphin Project a group that aims to educate the public about captivity and where feasible free captive dolphins He was featured in the Academy Awardwinning film The Cove 2009 which used covert techniques to expose the yearly dolphin drive hunting that goes on in Taiji Japan Description above from the Wikipedia article Ric OBarry licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia