Stunning video shows dolphins jumping 20 feet into the air off San Diego coast
This stunning footage shows a group of bottlenose dolphins leaping 20 feet into the air off the coast of San Diego, in California, U.S. The whale tour operator who caught the moment on camera on August 12 compared it to Simone Biles' floor routine, who most recently performed at the Paris Olympics 2024. Erica Sackrison of Gone Whale Watching said the Bottlenose dolphins "almost seemed to touch the sky."?
What does the video show?
Tourists on the boat were in for quite a surprise after having caught the rare sight first-hand.?
"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?" Sackrison told local news station KFMB. "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."
According to?Gone Whale Watching founder Dominic Biagini the reason behind the mid-water gymnastics is an abundant food source.?
?"Anchovies are really, really popular food source, especially for the common dolphins. But we've also been seeing bottlenose dolphins in bigger numbers, and the bottlenose dolphins are the ones that you see in those spectacular videos, leaping into the air. And often times when we see bottlenose dolphins here in numbers like that, it's because there's a lot of squid in San Diego waters. So most likely, we have an influx of squid right now," Biagini told KFMB.
How did the internet react?
The video got a host of comments on YouTube. Take a look:
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