Beyond Words : Alderon Corporation : 9781087953717 : 1087953715 : 29 Jul 2022 : How much more could be learned about using and conserving ocean resources if humans could communicate with intelligent marine creatures? This question is sure to intrigue readers who follow the adventures of Mo and Duke, a lonely girl and a dolphin who develop a deep friendship when they learn how to use whistles and mental linkages for communication. Tons of human waste are dumped into the oceans each year. Readers of this story become aware of the high environmental cost of this practice when Duke, a curious young dolphin, is poisoned by contact with poisonous blue slime in the hold of a sunken ship. Paralyzed and unable to swim, the dolphin's pod brings him to the Duke University Marine Lab dock, where they hope the people of the land can help. A dolphin rescue team there saves his life. Because his skin is a bright blue from contact with the blue slime, the paralyzed dolphin comes to be known as D