Sailing with 100 dolphins!

Hi, I'm Stuart Porter. On our return leg of a 2 week sailing trip we were surrounded by a huge shoal of White Beaked Dolphins. This was in the North Sea from 4am to 5:10am one morning. We were approximately 80 nautical miles east of Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK.

It was totally amazing. I felt VERY blessed to be there. Even on wildlife programmes I've never seen anything quite like it. I thought that you needed to be in an 'exotic' part of the world to see things like this. The other unusual thing was that the sea was incredibly flat, even calmer than in a swimming pool, so I could get some good footage of the dolphins underwater.

Quite a few times the dolphins would swim on their sides to take a look at me, it's as though we somehow connected or communicated. They were as interested in us and the boat as we were in them. At 3:54 in the video, a dolphin swims on its side to take a look at me, they did this quite a few times. They were all around the boat as well, to the bow, stern and beam (both sides), even as far as 100 mtrs away. On the video if you look carefully, you can see some jumping in the distance. They jump or come to the surface for air, so for every 1 surfacing there's 10 to 20 below the surface.

They are rather special and clever creatures. We saw them as they are meant to be - free.

For my blog entry of this special time please see:
http://eatmoreraw.net/blog/?p=614

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I hope that you enjoy the video!
Kind regards,
Stuart Porter

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