Of course, all scuba divers just love dolphins. But when I read about Sharon Tendler recently, I wondered if perhaps she hadn’t taken her love of dolphins just a bit too far. Dressed in a white dress, a veil, and sporting pink flowers in her hair, Tendler got down on one knee on a dock in the southern Israeli port of Eilat and married a dolphin. After she kissed the 35-year-old dolphin, she gave it some fish. And then she went swimming with it. Ah…there’s nothing purer and more wonderful than true love. Oh, who am I kidding? The whole story, frankly, is just too freakin’ bizarre.   

First, the dolphin – a male – is named Cindy.  Second, although Sharon is leaving open the option of “marrying human” in the future, for now she’s strictly a “one-dolphin woman.” Which is a bit strange, I think, because according to Sharon , she arranged a pre-nup, which allows Cindy to “play with all the other girls” in the ocean. “I hope he has a lot of baby dolphins with the other dolphins. The more dolphins the better," she said. 

Among the approximately 3 million other questions I have, I wonder how one arranges for a pre-nup with a dolphin? How did Cindy sign it? What lawyer in their right-mind would draft this agreement? I wonder if their first dinner as a couple was held at The Red Sea Star? If you need to see it to believe it, I found some video of the ceremony.