ONG TURSIOPS
The NGO TURSIOPS created in 1993 for the knowledge and protection of cetaceans. TURSIOPS organise eco-volunteer internships with dolphins.
Eric Demay
Eric Demay
Éric Demay is a French cetologist, founder and president of the Dolphy Observatory (France) from 1992 to 1995, for the observation and protection of the Dolphy female dolphin, and founder of the TURSIOPS Group (France) since 1993. He works with the dolphins since its first encounters in 1991 with the cetaceans of Bunbury in Australia. He is the author of several books on dolphins and whales.
Several television shows have presented its actions with cetaceans.
First work in Australia
In 1992 in Australia, his special relationship with wild dolphins gave him the opportunity to work as a healer at the Dolphin Discovery Center in Bunbury. His job is to attract dolphins near the beach to facilitate interaction with men. He then takes special care of the female Sarana who prematurely loses her first delphinium. He becomes the only human to be allowed to go into the water in Koombana Bay and is responsible for treating the female for several days. (WTV PERTH broadcast).
His first trip to Australia led him to Monkey Mia where he assisted the rangers during feeding sessions. He also learns a maximum of behavior concerning wild dolphins. He stays in the water all day with the females Nicky and Puck. Following this work, at Coff Harbor in New South Wales it is used to entertain and care for delphinids in captivity. He never raises animals.
Between 1992 and 1995 he worked for the scientific group GECEM (Study Group of Cetaceans of the Mediterranean Sea) as study manager for the monitoring, protection and study of Dolphin dolphin in Collioure.
He lived 24 hours a day with this dolphin for almost three years, supervising him and obtaining from him a lot of information about dolphins known as ambassadors.
He is behind the first law banning the touching of a wild dolphin. At that time the only existing law was proposed by the Ministry of Transport but did not specify the ethical and sanitary rules vis-à-vis dolphins.
He lived 24 hours a day with this dolphin for almost three years, supervising him and obtaining from him a lot of information about dolphins known as ambassadors.
He is behind the first law banning the touching of a wild dolphin. At that time the only existing law was proposed by the Ministry of Transport but did not specify the ethical and sanitary rules vis-à-vis dolphins.
His training in Australia allows him to propose a new way to protect dolphins coming into contact with men.
The city of Collioure becomes sponsor of the project and provides zodiac, gas, telephone, local and accommodation.
He becomes the first human to be paid to live with a dolphin!
He is taking the opportunity to conduct a study on Dolphy 's sleep, a world first that tracks the life of a wild dolphin and assesses its ability to adapt.
The city of Collioure becomes sponsor of the project and provides zodiac, gas, telephone, local and accommodation.
He becomes the first human to be paid to live with a dolphin!
He is taking the opportunity to conduct a study on Dolphy 's sleep, a world first that tracks the life of a wild dolphin and assesses its ability to adapt.
Production
In 1996, he directed his first documentary Man and Dolphin: a manual with Jean-Marc Barr (THE BIG BLUE) who won the first prize at the International Illkirch Festival in 1997. Document of 26 minutes.
Filmed in France with Dolphy's delphine, in Spain with captive dolphins in Barcelona, Florida with US NAVY dolphins with Richard O'Barry (THE COVE MOVIE), former trainer of the Fleeper dolphin, in Bunbury, Australia Monkey Mia and Coral Bay and also the Bahamas to meet the spotted dolphins.
He is the first to discuss captivity issues in this documentary.
In 1999, he directed the documentary "As long as there are dolphins" .K PRODUCTIONS.
52 minutes document.
Filmed in France with Dolphy's delphine, in Spain with captive dolphins in Barcelona, Florida with US NAVY dolphins with Richard O'Barry (THE COVE MOVIE), former trainer of the Fleeper dolphin, in Bunbury, Australia Monkey Mia and Coral Bay and also the Bahamas to meet the spotted dolphins.
He is the first to discuss captivity issues in this documentary.
In 1999, he directed the documentary "As long as there are dolphins" .K PRODUCTIONS.
52 minutes document.
Rescue
In 2000, the Oceanographic Institute Embiez in France made him come to observe the behaviors of a group of dolphins "blue and white" returned to the port and understand their motivations.
7 youngs "Stripes dolphins". 2 disappear after a few days, and then some time later two remain. A female does not die in the harbor, her sonar being unusable and degraded.
A female remains alone in the harbor but too tired to hunt she catches the first bait found in the harbor.
After more than 42 minutes of communication Eric Demay saves her by removing a fish hook in her mouth.
(Broadcast TF1, TMC, FR3).
7 youngs "Stripes dolphins". 2 disappear after a few days, and then some time later two remain. A female does not die in the harbor, her sonar being unusable and degraded.
A female remains alone in the harbor but too tired to hunt she catches the first bait found in the harbor.
After more than 42 minutes of communication Eric Demay saves her by removing a fish hook in her mouth.
(Broadcast TF1, TMC, FR3).
Red Sea
In 2012, Laura the female dolphin in the Red Sea gaves to him a piece of dead coral for her first day in the Hurghada area.
When he returned in October, the male Lino also offered him another piece of coral. Eric decides to start a photo-identification work of the dolphins of the region.
In 2013, he began collaborating with the DWA, for the scientific study of dolphins in the Hurghada region of Egypt, but also with the ONG HEPCA for the protection of the Red Sea.
When he returned in October, the male Lino also offered him another piece of coral. Eric decides to start a photo-identification work of the dolphins of the region.
In 2013, he began collaborating with the DWA, for the scientific study of dolphins in the Hurghada region of Egypt, but also with the ONG HEPCA for the protection of the Red Sea.
Between two "ecovoluntary" trips in the Red Sea, Éric Demay swims with marine mammals in all the oceans of the World. Sea lions, dolphins or whales like the blue whale in Sri Lanka.
He is also the diver who has met the most dolphin ambassadors in the world: Dolphy of course but also Fanny and Jean Floch in France, Nicky, Piccolo, Surprise, Puck, Sarana, Tangles or Holeyfin in Australia, Laura in Egypt.