In June 2004, the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society (HKDCS) and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) jointly launched a brand-new programme, the "Dolphin Ambassador Training Programme". The Programme aimed to train tertiary students and members of the public to become Dolphin Ambassadors, in order to promote AFCD's code-of-conduct in dolphin watching to dolphin watching operators, as well as the public, so as to minimize disturbances to the wild dolphins.

This year dolphin researchers started to get aware of the speed boats around Tai O waters, which carried tourists out to the sea to search for Chinese white dolphins. All these boats set off at the fishing village of Tai O, each of which could carry around 10 people. The boat fee was low. Unfortunately, skippers of these boats did not know much about the dolphins, and they would speed toward the dolphins once they spotted them. To understand more about the effect of these boats to the dolphins, the dolphin ambassadors also surveyed the boat passengers.