When Dolphins Attack!

[Cebu_4_2]

Fight back and can then as Tuna...


http://youtu.be/SIF3PyPdQkM

http://youtu.be/SIF3PyPdQkM

We normal/ partial normal people do have friends in this world.

[BrewTech]

What would have been even cooler is if she was sporting a GoPro... I would love to see that from her POV...

[EE_]

I don't think I'd be comfortable with that. If you've ever petted a dolphin, you'd know their bodies are as hard as concrete. Dolphins weigh from 300 to 1,400 pounds.
If she were to be hit by one, the laughter and fun would have quickly changed to Oh Shit's and Oh my God call an ambulance.
Still a cool vid!

[gunDriller]

once i was in the water at Del Mar "Dog Beach" in So Cal.

i was about 100 yards offshore and had just swum through a humongous pile of seaweed, sort of for the hell of it.

i saw an adult and a baby another 50 yards off-shore and started swimming slowly towards them.

all of a sudden there was this HUGE boil of water about 10 feet away from me, followed by the sight of 2 adults passing by me, speeding away.


to me it exhibited their intelligence - i interpreted it as a warning, and stopped swimming towards the adult & baby.

nothing else happened.

but i always wonder what would have happened. i'm thinking, the head-butt, which if it is enough to disable a great white ...

[BrewTech]

I don't think I'd be comfortable with that. If you've ever petted a dolphin, you'd know their bodies are as hard as concrete. Dolphins weigh from 300 to 1,400 pounds.
If she were to be hit by one, the laughter and fun would have quickly changed to Oh Shit's and Oh my God call an ambulance.
Still a cool vid!

That's the beauty of it... as big as they are, they have complete control of their movements, and outstanding awareness. I was bodysurfing in HB more than once where I took off on a wave only to notice I was shoulder-to-shoulder with a dolphin... he was just playing and it was clear he wasn't going to harm me, or let any harm come to me...

I would do that every day if I could.

[BrewTech]

once i was in the water at Del Mar "Dog Beach" in So Cal.

i was about 100 yards offshore and had just swum through a humongous pile of seaweed, sort of for the hell of it.

i saw an adult and a baby another 50 yards off-shore and started swimming slowly towards them.

all of a sudden there was this HUGE boil of water about 10 feet away from me, followed by the sight of 2 adults passing by me, speeding away.


to me it exhibited their intelligence - i interpreted it as a warning, and stopped swimming towards the adult & baby.

nothing else happened.

but i always wonder what would have happened. i'm thinking, the head-butt, which if it is enough to disable a great white ...

Also could have been they actually DID head butt a GW (10 ft from you)... and you're still alive today because of it...

[EE_]

That's the beauty of it... as big as they are, they have complete control of their movements, and outstanding awareness. I was bodysurfing in HB more than once where I took off on a wave only to notice I was shoulder-to-shoulder with a dolphin... he was just playing and it was clear he wasn't going to harm me, or let any harm come to me...

I would do that every day if I could.

I agree that dolphins are the least threatening of most all sea life and attacks by them are very rare. If they do harm humans, it's usually by accident.

I think being surrounded by that many as the skier was, increased the odds of an accident and like I said, these things are like 600 pound sacks of cement hurling through the water at 25 mph...accidently being hit by one would not be pleasent. I've seen stories that run the gammet of them saving humans, saving dogs, or accidently landing in a boat on top of people. Shit happens.

My closest encounter with one was in Hilton Head Island years ago when I took a swim off a boat...I got back to the swim platform and was holding on to it when a dolphin poked his head out of the water to look me in the face. He couldn't have been more then two feet from me. I wasn't afraid of him, but I also didn't feel comfortable swimming so close to something this size in water where I can't see below me and they can.