Beautiful video: Dolphin stampede and newborn whale

[Panich52]

Beautiful video: Dolphin stampede and whales
Feb 26, 2015
by Deborah Byrd in Blogs, Videos » Earth, Human World

A quadcopter drone was used to capture this amazing video a year ago. If you watch all five minutes, you’ll see thousands of common dolphins stampeding off Dana Point, California, three gray whales migrating together down the coast off San Clemente, California, plus, toward the end, close-ups from Maui of a newborn Humpback whale calf snuggling and playing with its mom, as an escort whale stands guard nearby.

Captain Dave Anderson of Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari in Dana Point, California filmed and edited the video. He used a small inflatable boat, from which he launched and caught the drone by hand. A miss could have meant injury to him from the four propeller blades, or loss of the drone. In fact, he lost one drone on takeoff when it nicked his small VHF radio antenna and went into the water. Although he was alone and six miles offshore, Anderson says, he went into the water after it, without thinking, to retrieve the valuable footage taken on a flight half an hour earlier that morning. ...

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[Curmudgeoness]

1. Drones really are going to change the way we see our world.

Thanks for posting this. It was very peaceful.

[Grammy23]

2. Thanks for posting. I posted

To Facebook so my granddaughter will get to see it. She is only 10 years old but loves all creatures, but especially loves Dolphins, whales and other sea creatures.

[abakan]

3. Thanks for the goosebumps...

Beautiful is too meager a word to describe this.

[lark]

4. Thank you, thank you!

This really made my day. I live in NE FL and the # of dolphins here have sharply decreased due to the BP flood of oil. So happy to see a bunch of dolphins in the open ocean. I sorely miss seeing the large #'s I used to be able to see on the St. John's.

[1monster]

5. Have dolphins always had thos stampedes or is the a relatively new development?

I worked in Marine biology and dolphin in the '70s and early '80s and I had never heard of dophin stampedes before a few years ago...

Have they been doing this all along, or are the dolphins having conventions to try to figure out what to do with the human problem (and the stampede is just the entertainment part of the con)?

[Panich52]

9. Don't know. But guess not new. We just have new tech to watch

[annm4peace]

6. beautiful

great to watch and put me in a better mood after watching Cspan.. with CPAC neocons

[Peace Patriot]

7. Made me think of Leonard Nemoy who directed the Star Trek move about saving...

...the whales!

He would have enjoyed this!

[mountain grammy]

8. Very nice, I really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.

[Panich52]

10. Glad yall enjoyed this as much as I did.