Margaret Howe Lovatt was just 20 when she started work in a lab with the aim of understanding dolphins and teaching them to speak English. One of her first memories is being given a book about a talking cat by her mother when she was just a child. It sparked a life-long fascination with animals and how they communicate and led to her becoming a key part of a NASA funded experiment in the s. Margaret explained: "It was a story about a cat who could talk and understand humans and it just stuck with me that maybe there is this possibility. Unlike most children, Margaret didn't grow out of dreaming about one day communicating with animals. Her dreams came true at Christmas in , when she was living in the Caribbean island of St Thomas.

In the s, Margaret Lovatt was part of a Nasa-funded project to communicate with dolphins. Christopher Riley reports on an experiment that went tragically wrong. L ike most children, Margaret Howe Lovatt grew up with stories of talking animals. In her early 20s, living on the Caribbean island of St Thomas, they took on a new significance. During Christmas , her brother-in-law mentioned a secret laboratory at the eastern end of the island where they were working with dolphins.

In , journalist Malcolm J. Brenner released his autobiographical novel, Wet Goddess. I immediately thought of Brenner. In , when Brenner was a college sophomore, he was given open access to the now-defunct theme park Floridaland near Sarasota to take photos for a book about the dolphin show. There, he claims, Dolly the dolphin began courting him.

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