Watch as dolphins leap out of water alongside Weymouth RNLI crew
A pod of dolphins surprised the crew of an RNLI lifeboat when they swam alongside the boat, jumping out of the water and performing tricks.
Footage, which was filmed on Monday (3 September) and shared on local news outlets this week, shows the RNLI Weymouth crew watching in amazement as the pod of dolphins comes up to greet them.
“We had some very special visitors while out on the water this morning,” says RNLI Weymouth, in a social media post. “The crew were luckily in the right place at the right time to see these dolphins playing in the water.”
Weymouth is one of the RNLI‘s busiest lifeboat stations on England’s south coast. It operates two lifeboats – Ernest and Mabel, a Severn class all-weather lifeboat, and Jack & Phyl Cleare, a B class Atlantic 85.
According to Whale and Dolphin Conservation, the species most commonly sighted around the UK coast are bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises. There are populations of bottlenose dolphins in Cardigan Bay in Wales and the Moray Firth in Scotland, but smaller groups or individuals may be seen almost anywhere.
Everyone loves seeing dolphins alongside a boat. In this video I took earlier this year it was the first time it ever happened to me as my regular waters do not have any dolphins. In total I had three pods on the same day. There are two long sections of video that have the first pod of dolphins leaping out of the water as they approached before playing on the bow for about an hour. The best video is just before the 2nd pod leaves as one stands on it’s tail before splashing down, not once but 13 times.
Dolphins https://youtu.be/lGF2gY54GaY