Dolphin video captured off San Diego coast goes viral

A local whale watching company reports that conditions off the San Diego coast are so good, they're seeing an influx of sharks and dolphins. Gone Whale Watching has been posting videos of their recent encounters, which have generated millions of views. One in particular shows dolphins leaping out of the water right next to their boat.

"You know, when these things are going higher than the wheelhouse. It's just, it's spectacular," said Erica Sackrison.

Sackrison was the photographer aboard a Gone Whale Watching tour last week when a pod of bottlenose dolphins caught her eye, as well as everyone else's on board.

"You could just see them jumping like, 20 feet in the air, and everybody on the boat just started pointing and I'm like, what is everybody looking at? Almost feels like they were doing Olympic-style jumps, like they were just all trying to be like Simone Biles and just touch the sky and come down. It was awesome," said Sackrison.

Sackrison's videos are often posted on Gone Whale Watching's Instagram page. In just one week, the dolphin pod one has already generated over seven million views.

On the day it was taken, she says the boat encountered huge pods every couple of miles right off the coast of Mission Bay.

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