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Like No Stampede You’ve Ever Seen: Thousands of Dolphins Rush Tourist Boat!

Jan. 10, 2013 11:20am Liz Klimas

Whale watchers were treated to a rare sight Sunday as a stampede of a thousand of dolphins raced with their boat.

Whale Watchers See Rare Dolphin Stampede Off California Coast

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

In the video footage taken of the event off the coast of Dana Point in California, the pleasure of those on the boat witnessing miles of water being turned up by the dolphins is apparent.

“Holy cow!” one boy exclaimed. To which we can’t help but correct with “holy dolphin!”

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

The passengers were on Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari. Here’s more from the video description about the stampede, which it compared to being “like a heard of wild horses”:

Ecstatic passengers aboard Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari were able to see the spectacular show from a unique perspective too: below the surface from the Eye to Eye Underwater Viewing Pods! In the two Underwater Viewing Pods passengers are able to BE one of the pod and feel what’s it like to swim with wild dolphins without having to get wet.

Dana Point is in Southern California which has the greatest density of oceanic dolphins per square mile of anywhere in the world. This includes nearly 450,000 common dolphins like the ones in this video. Porpoising is their fastest mode of travel as there is less resistance in air than water. Dolphins are here throughout the year, sometimes in herds numbering upwards of 10,000.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch the stunning video:

For those concerned about so many dolphins in the area and the impact the boat’s prop could have on them, Capt. Dave said in a statement in the description of the video that the smart dolphins are aware of the moving prop and generally pass in front of the boat anyway in order to surf on the pressure created by its forward motion.

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(H/T: io9)

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reportanddeport
Posted on January 13, 2013 at 3:56pm
What cute, beautiful and amazing creatures. How sad that the Japanese people slaugher and eat these magnificent and friendly animals.

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MC Wombat
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 12:37pm
If the smart dolphins are aware of the moving prop and generally pass in front of the boat, does that mean the stupid dolphins get cut up and mangled by the propellers on a regular basis? Just curious

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- captjack63
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 6:56pm
  Dolphins are to smart and fast, it’s the MANATEE’S that ar slow and to stupid to get out of the way of the prop.That one reason why you will never see Dolphins caught on a fisherman’s hook.
  
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SirhanSirhan
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 11:38am
Alhamdulillah (All praise is to Allah) the best to create!
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- MC Wombat
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 6:26pm
  The worst to create as well – Jihadists that slaughter women & children, Intolerant extremists that lie , cheat, & steal in the name of Allah, Rapists that praise the names of their Lords while they violate the helpless, Half-witted idiots that lack a thread of humanity, Merciless, inbred, ignorant, illiterate, apostates that commit any atrocity in the name of their deity, Evil zealots that would not understand charity or kindness if it slapped them in the beard. These are the sinners that Islam honors & adores – manipulated fools that will soon meet the reward they have earned when Satan greets them at the gates of hell! Find a place in the Qoran where Allah promises a reward for those that murder & rape the innocent in his name, a passage that commands killing & torture of those that have ideas that differ from those of Islam. We are waiting! It’s a long book & it takes a while to read, but the passage that justifies the evil isn’t there, is it? Alhamdulillah is a great idea. Sorry that it has to be associated with as many vile acts commited by a small percentage of the Muslim world! Too bad so many of his followere on Earth choose to do Evil in his name. Alhamdulillah (All praise is to Allah) creator of all that is good & deity of many that do evil in his name!
  
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- eagledown
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 11:59pm
  @SIRHANSIRHAN Really Dude!
  
  Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Jordanian citizen who was convicted for the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He is currently serving a life sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California
  
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- reportanddeport
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 4:03pm
  “Allah” might have created the dolphins. And then false prophets like Mohammed turned God’s world into a blodbath of murder and oppression.
  
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- WATER-THE-TREE
  Posted on January 13, 2013 at 10:00pm
  allah did not create crap. Allah is just another name for Satan! allah was created by mohamed.
  
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Zipit
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 8:19am
I’ve bee fortunate to witness a couple of feeding frenzies like this! It is awesome!!!

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LB
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 3:34am
Maybe they are running from something…big quake..meteor??

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KevINtampa
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 12:40am
This summer I had a rather large pod of bottle noses porpoise right next to my kayak, with in inches. Must have been about fifty or more of the neat buggers. There were so many and they were so close that by the time it was over I was drenched with the spray from their exhales.

I’ve only been kayaking in Tampa for a short while, but other more experienced kayakers that were a few hundred feet away and witnessed me freaking out said it was really rare to see a pod that big and that close, that they’d never seen anything like it. One of the neatest most exhilarating things I’ve ever witnessed.

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- shasta
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 2:58pm
  Kool for you Kevin, glad you had a wonderful experience like that. Most never get to see what you got to see.
  
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Confounding Father
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:29pm
Once, in the Caribbean on one of Royal Caribbean’s biggest ships, at supper time, looking out the window, I saw scads of dolphins riding the ships’ wakes. My kids got up to see them better and then we could all see hundreds of them behind the ship, as far as we could see- for a mile or so it seemed- in the V’s on both sides. It seemed that the wakes were spaced a couple hundred yards apart (the ship is so big — scale is hard to figure out) which the farther back we looked the biigger the V of course. And every single wake was plastered with frolicking dolphins across what seemed by then to be the entire ocean. It is one of my greatest memories ever and wouldn’t have believed it had I not seen it myself.

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tj1961
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:50pm
Often see dolphins in Florida, but not like this! WOW!

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HelloWorld
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:33pm
I am confused by why this is such a big deal. This always happens. They are not stampeding. Dolphins love to play. They are just swimming next to the boat. They do this all the time in Hawaii, the Baja any and everywhere there are dolphins. The people reporting the news need to get out more.

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- ArmedAndReallyPissed
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 5:42pm
  I personally think they are just showing something good and fun to see in an otherwise dark world anymore.
  
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greenongreen1
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:21pm
Anyone else find it annoying that Obama, Pelosi, and others always come up in the comments despite this being just a cool video about Dolphins near a whale watching boat?

If you’ve got nothing better to do than try to come up with a segway from talking about dolphins to talking about liberal trash, then you lead a sorry existence.

It’s a really cool video about dolphins; leave it at that!

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- naughtycal
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:33pm
  Most ofThose Dolphins were rushing out of U.S. water to avoid Obama new taxes. He never said he wouldn’t tax dolphins …I mean what did they expect.
  The rest heard that Nancy Pelosi was into innerspecies erocticia and were fleeing before she could catch them.
  
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- greenongreen1
  Posted on January 11, 2013 at 8:57am
  I’ll admit, I laughed.
  
  Don’t get me wrong, I cannot stand this administration or what they’re doing to America. I am a patriot. I demand to be free and live as such. My family is a military family. I live in rural America. I cut, split, and burn wood for heat (which now the beloved EPA is also cracking down on http://clashdaily.com/2013/01/off-grid-attack-epa-to-outlaw-many-wood-burning-stoves/), I own draft horses and work the ground with them, and I would say I am just about as conservative as they come. I’m just tired of hearing Obama’s name, along with the others he holds dear, around every corner. I look at stories like this expecting not to hear the same old bad news, and yet it always comes up.
  
  Your reply was, however, clever. Good day to you.
  
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Stoic one
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:29pm
cool

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Chazael
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:15pm
I was on vacation in Mexico, Baja, Sea of Cortez and was lucky to experience this. It was just two of us, in a small boat. We noticed what looked like a huge wave coming at us, but as it got near it was hundreds of dolphins. They were everywhere around us. Glad I was there.

I was told later they were herding fish.

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Mommy Venting
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:08pm
What an amazing experience !

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OBUMAURMAMA
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:55am
Paul Pelosi, Nancy’s husband, owns $17 million dollars of Star-Kist stock.
Grind them up with the tuna and volla more profit for a RICH Corporate 1%er.

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qpwillie
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:50am
Isn’t that close to Nancy Pelosi’s district? They probably smelled evil and got the hell away from there as fast as they could.

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- Jefferson
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:08pm
  Boy, that was a real knee slapper there QPwillie. You think of that one all by yourself? You know you have a hard on for Pelousy. (at least you would with your little blue pills) You’re a closet progressive.
  
  BTW Blaze, it’s “HERD of wild horses” not “heard of wild horses.”
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:49pm
  Who you callin Boy, George.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:42am
Reminded me of WheemsCo! (Some of you will get it!)

What a BEAUTIFUL sight to behold!!!

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Vickie Dhaene
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:37am
Incredible!! Sardines must be just ahead of them.

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OBUMAURMAMA
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:32am
They heard that Obama is now eating Sushi.

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DeavonReye
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:31am
What a beautiful sight.

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Eastinfection
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:28am
Flash Mob.

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Stelex
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:24am
Grab your bable fish and towel……….its showtime.

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