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- <text id=89TT1327>
- <title>
- May 22, 1989: Business Notes:Resorts
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 22, 1989 Politics, Panama-Style
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 89
- Business Notes
- RESORTS
- Death of the Dolphins
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- <p> From the moment Hyatt's fantasy-filled $360 million Regency
- Waikoloa hotel opened on Hawaii last year, one of its most
- popular attractions was a high-tech lagoon containing eight
- bottle-nosed dolphins. Guests signed up for 30-minute sessions
- of cavorting with the gregarious 300-lb. mammals. Then tragedy
- struck: two of the dolphins suddenly died, prompting speculation
- that their demise might have been caused by abuse or infection
- from human playmates.
- </p>
- <p> Last week an autopsy report disclosed that the dolphins had
- suffered lethal doses of food poisoning from eating fish
- contaminated by naturally occurring marine toxins. The fish had
- invaded the dolphins' domain through inlets connecting the
- lagoon to the ocean. The inlets have now been sealed to protect
- the surviving dolphins.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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