the connection

It is a video clip that has touched the hearts of millions of people across the world. Veteran scuba instructor Keller Laros cuts free a 10-foot-long bottlenose dolphin that is entangled in 14 feet of fishing line.

Photographer Martina Wing captured on video the heart-warming rescue off Keahole Point near Kona International Airport. The clip lasts about eight minutes, but the obvious connection between diver and dolphin is instant.

The video clip already has more than 2 million views on YouTube. Laros is humbled by all the attention and hopes those who watch it see more than just a rescue at sea.

“I think this encounter has reinforced my belief that we can all make a difference in the world by being good and simply doing the right things every day,” says Laros. “Be it holding a door for someone, recycling cans, bottles and paper, being polite and patient with others, or helping an injured animal, do your best and do what’s right and every day the world can get better.”

-- Ron Mizutani, MidWeek, February 6, 2013