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Dolphins seen leaping out of water in video goes viral
A whale-watching company’s stunning footage of multiple bottlenose dolphins leaping high above waters off San Diego went viral on social media. (Credit: @gonewhalewatching/@erica.sackrison via Storyful)
null - Oh, to be a dolphin leaping out of the ocean with other fellow dolphins on a warm summer day.
Awesome video captured during a whale-watching excursion captured a pod of dolphins leaping high above the waters off the coast of San Diego on August 12.
The footage has been viewed over 7 million times as of this report.
Still image taken from video showing dolphins leaping out of the water during a whale watching excursion off San Diego's coast. (Credit: @gonewhalewatching/@erica.sackrison via Storyful)
"You could just see them jumping like, 20 feet in the air, and everybody on the boat just started pointing and I’m like, ‘What is everybody looking at?’" Erica Sackrison told local news media.
Sackrison, who captured the footage, operates Gone Whale Watching.
"Almost feels like they were doing Olympic-style jumps, like they were just all trying to be like Simone Biles and just touch the sky and come down. It was awesome," she added.
"You know, when these things are going higher than the wheelhouse … it’s spectacular," Sackrison said.
The company regularly posts similar encounters to its Instagram page.