Posted on 07/01/2015 12:56:44 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
'I've never seen this before': How a family outing took 'totally bizarre' turn after dolphin lands in boat, breaks woman's ankles.
For a few moments, it was pure bliss as dolphins swam alongside the Frickman family’s small boat, leaping toward the sky and doing flips.
The Frickman family had been enjoying a sunny afternoon June 21 – the first day of summer, Father’s Day and also Dirk and Chrissie Frickman’s 18th wedding anniversary – when they came across the pod of dolphins as they were heading back to the Dana Point Harbor.
Tristan, 12, and Courtney, 16, edged toward the bow of the 21-foot Boston Whaler as the dolphins swam along their boat. The entire family was cheering.
That’s when the pleasant afternoon turned to pure chaos. A dolphin leaped out of the water, hit the rail of their boat and flopped right inside with the family.
At first, it might have resembled a wacky Sea World trick, or a fun Flipper moment.
But it got messy. Bloody, scary and messy.
“It hit my wife and knocked her over, and punched my daughter,” Dirk Frickman recalled.
Luckily, no one got knocked out of the boat, he said.
“I had this 350-pound dolphin in my boat,” Frickman said. “There was no way to get it off the boat.”
His first thought: This is not going to be good.
Chrissie Frickman was screaming in pain as the dolphin flopped on her legs. Her husband pulled her out from beneath it, and the family scurried around the center console toward the bow as the gravity of the boat pulled the frantic dolphin toward the back................
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My son has a boat in Dana Point Harbor. Whenever we visit CA., we cruise the coast and see dolphins constantly. They put on quite a show.
ROTFLMAO
Man that was GOOD!
Best post of the day!
“My son has a boat in Dana Point Harbor. Whenever we visit CA., we cruise the coast and see dolphins constantly. They put on quite a show.”
And whales migrate along the coastline there, too. On their way from Alaska,to Mexico. And then back. California Grey Whale, commonly seen off the coast of Orange County (Dana Point).
http://www.newportwhales.com/california_Whale_Watch.html#migration
Don’t mind him, he’s just a blowhole.
More:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3146240/Dolphin-leaps-boat-injuring-California-woman.html
The gravity of the boat was moving the dolphin?
That must be one VERY large boat...
The gravity of the boat was moving the dolphin?
That must be one VERY large boat...
Dolphins love to play in the wakes of boats. You can’t just stop them from doing it. We were on our way to Dana Point one time on our sailboat and a pod of Dall’s porpoises rode our bow wake for quite a while. Was beautiful.
We have had dolphins in our wake quite often.
Cue those videos of dolphins ramming and killing sharks.
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