Dolphins Save Surfer
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:26 am
. Now if only they could play football. 
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:50 pm
That is a great story sunburst. Thanks for posting it . Now if only they could play football. s-k
. Now if only they could play football. s-kPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:32 pm
Thanks for posting it. I'm always interested in these stories. These were likely Pacifc Whiteside Dolphins as the bottlenose does not live in these parts, They can live in pods numbering in the hundreds, and thousands by some accounts and are directly related to the bottlenose.
Great story and can happen since the water around Monterey can be real murky. I remember being in water that I could not read the white writing on the back of my glove with my hand just 2 feet away.
BTW, Monterey is the southern point of the Red Triangle, greatest concentration of Great Whites in the world and an area with a lot of scientific studies.
There is or was a "war" between dive boat companies and surfers last I heard it had not been resolved. Dive boats would be doing cage dive, where folks pay to see great whites from the safety of a cage. The dive boats would throw out chum to attract sharks, WITHOUT any regard for the surfers in the water.
Finish my post.
The Pacifc Whiteside Dolphins do live around Asia and Japan. They do share many charactoristics and habits that their cousins the bottlenose dolphins exhibit.
The other species that I've seen in abundance is the Dalls Porpoise which can travel at 35 MPH. The Dalls Poupoise is misnamed because it's not a porpoise at all, but one of the smallest whales in the oceans. That's correct, it is a whale that is about 6 feet long and these little whales do like to swim in front of a bow, just like a porpoise. This is one of the critters that get slaughtered, canned and sold in Japan. Japanese Fisherman sometimes kill them in such numbers that the bays run red with their blood.
I have been able to to swim with seals, sea lions, grey whales, large schools of krill, huge schools of baitfish, jellyfish, spinner dolphins in Maui, Dalls porpoise, and Pacifc Whiteside Dolphins. Also some Blue sharks and Great white Sharks while cage diving, not knowing the situation with surfers. I have seen several Great Whites while abalone diving. Oddly enough I'm not bothered by the sharks I've seen, but think more often of how many sharks I didn't see. Foor every one I've seen, I wonder how many saw me, without my knowledge.
Great story and can happen since the water around Monterey can be real murky. I remember being in water that I could not read the white writing on the back of my glove with my hand just 2 feet away.
BTW, Monterey is the southern point of the Red Triangle, greatest concentration of Great Whites in the world and an area with a lot of scientific studies.
There is or was a "war" between dive boat companies and surfers last I heard it had not been resolved. Dive boats would be doing cage dive, where folks pay to see great whites from the safety of a cage. The dive boats would throw out chum to attract sharks, WITHOUT any regard for the surfers in the water.
Finish my post.
The Pacifc Whiteside Dolphins do live around Asia and Japan. They do share many charactoristics and habits that their cousins the bottlenose dolphins exhibit.
The other species that I've seen in abundance is the Dalls Porpoise which can travel at 35 MPH. The Dalls Poupoise is misnamed because it's not a porpoise at all, but one of the smallest whales in the oceans. That's correct, it is a whale that is about 6 feet long and these little whales do like to swim in front of a bow, just like a porpoise. This is one of the critters that get slaughtered, canned and sold in Japan. Japanese Fisherman sometimes kill them in such numbers that the bays run red with their blood.
I have been able to to swim with seals, sea lions, grey whales, large schools of krill, huge schools of baitfish, jellyfish, spinner dolphins in Maui, Dalls porpoise, and Pacifc Whiteside Dolphins. Also some Blue sharks and Great white Sharks while cage diving, not knowing the situation with surfers. I have seen several Great Whites while abalone diving. Oddly enough I'm not bothered by the sharks I've seen, but think more often of how many sharks I didn't see.
Foor every one I've seen, I wonder how many saw me, without my knowledge.