A Shared Fate

Length: 15:00 minutes

For more than a decade ocean conservationist Hardy Jones fought to save dolphins and whales from blades and nets. But by the late 1980s he found that many of the dolphins he knew best were sick or dieing from high levels of toxins right off our shores. In 1997 Hardy was diagnosed with chronic mercury poisoning – probably from eating large quantities of tuna and swordfish.

And in 2003 he was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer that is closely associated with high levels of pollution. See this extraordinary medical mystery.