Ship Photos of the Day – Dolphins and Ships

gCaptain ^ | December 11, 2015

[artichokegrower]

Houston ship pilot Lou Vest has a knack for snapping pics at just the right moment

[artichokegrower]

Nature interacting with the biggest stuff than man makes

[Mollypitcher1]

Can’t you just hear them laughing, “Ha ha, you can’t catch me?”

[Smellin Salt]

Trout thieves

[moehoward]

They like playing around sailboats too. Lots of Dolphin between MDR and Catalina Island.

[gaijin]

If no bow wake: water exit and entry altitudes are the same, great effort required

If bow wake: water exit point is ABOVE entry point, jump effort diminished

They are surfing, just a little bit.

[yarddog]

I have seen paintings from ancient Greece showing dolphins jumping ahead of ships. Probably on vases or urns but I think also on the walls at Knossos in Crete.

[nathanbedford]

2 1/2 millennia later I have witnessed the descendents of those dolphins surfing in the bow wake of a sailboat in the same waters.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[BBell]

[fieldmarshaldj]

There goes Mr. Garrison’s balls.

[BBell]

You are a fan I see.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Heh, yup. Looks like we hijacked the thread. :-P