A very cool video of Dolphins surfing - for fun....Sir David Attenborough narrates..

also, ever wonder how a dolphin takes advantage of the bow wave of a ship? The last part of this video is some fascinating underwater footage of Dolphins riding a ships bow wave. Very cool 2:10 video clip from a BBC special from 2003.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWauuX_1KH8&NR=1

thank you.

We used to get a kick out of watching the dolphins surfing the bow wave.

Very cool.

The man (and the amazing cameraman with him) are the best of the best.

:P

Thanks for sharing this.

We saw them often when I was aboard ship in the Navy.

There was the time when there were little babies at play with the adults. It makes you want to cry.

I have also speculated that they develop some sort of affinity to particular ships. I was on a minesweeper. We generally worked the same waters, off the coast of Charleston, SC, to do our exercises. The dolphin were always there. One day, we went into dry dock about 15 miles up a smallish river. The shipyard was actually in brackish water and only minimally tidal. Yet, the morning after we arrived there came a school of dolphin, playing in the water off our bow, almost as if asking us to come out and play. I have no idea if this was the same pod that normally played with us, but it sure seemed so ..... or I am guilty of hopeless flights of romantic fantasy.