Head to head: Hector's Dolphin v Russell Coutts

Sport Review #271

Mar 28, 2024

Diet

Hector’s Dolphin: Mixture of surface-schooling fish, midwater fish, squid, and a variety of benthic species

Russell Coutts: The Platform

Feelings about DOC

Hector’s Dolphin: Been very good to our group, no complaints

Russell Coutts: I’m sorry but they are a pack of wooly socked, scroggin loving wowser arseholes

Demonstrating patriotism to New Zealand

Hector’s Dolphin: Just kind of swimming around it

Russell Coutts: Winning some America’s Cups for Team New Zealand but also some for other countries, attending freedom protests at Parliament

Areas of expertise

Hector’s Dolphin: Navigating by high-frequency echolocation clicks, foraging for sea food

Russell Coutts: Yachting races, vaccine politics, Hector’s Dolphin endangered status

Feelings about Lyttelton Harbour

Hector’s Dolphin: Pretty cruisey overall

Russell Coutts: Never going back to that hole

Oppression

Hector’s Dolphin: There are about 15,000 Hector’s Dolphins, and they are classified as nationally vulnerable

Russell Coutts: The Sail GP CEO with a reported net worth of $55 million is badly threatened by minority groups with a huge say in what happens, extreme marine mammal management plans and this once great nation being brought to its knees by red tape

Thanks for reading - Richard

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