Smaller boats called skiffs would join the drive and together they would continue the drive and bang poles on the side of the boats as this confused the dolphin's sonar.The skiffs would lay out nets to stop the dolphins from swimming back out to sea. Often by the time they arrived at the Cove the dolphins were exhausted. The dolphins were continually coming up to the surface in short sharp dives. On each slaughter, we saw 3 slaughters, we witnessed a dolphin caught in the nets each time. When this happens a diver jumps into the water, they tie a rope around its tail and thither it to the boat dragging it into the Cove. From there the dolphins were driven deeper into the cove up towards the rocks and then slaughtered. A sharp spike is shoved into their neck behind the blowhole and severs their fine..
After the dolphin has been stabbed and paralysed the fishermen insert a wooden peg into the wound, which prevents the blood luring out in order to conserve the blood for commercial use. We did not witness the actual slaughter as the fisherman have tarps that they pull across the cove to avoid people witnessing or photographing the event. The bodies are then hurled into skiffs, covered in tarps and driven directly the the butchery on the harbour. During the slaughter the fishermen We know the slaughter has ceased because we can no longer hear the thrashing of the dolphins or their cries and slowly the cove changes from being a sparkling blue to red, stained with blood.