Dolphins - part 2

Bottle Nosed Dolphins

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Enroute from Iran to India, on my tanker in position somewhere south of Pakistan and where the Gulf of Oman meets the Arabian sea, my ship was accompanied by a school of these playful Bottle nosed dolphins.Putting up a splendid show of acrobatics, as good as any trained dolphins, it was hard to believe that these were wild dolphins with hardly any human contacts.
Watching them I felt that they were competing against each other, trying to outdo the other in height of jump and the skill of jump.
To the many that I showed these photographs; found it hard to believe that these we photographed at mid sea and were amazed to realize that these were wild dolphins. I am so privileged to have witnessed this show.
Just posting a few of the 400 photographs that i managed to clicked of this incredible display.
Will post few more tomorrow.

Bottlenose Dolphins

Photographed these sea beauties in the middle of the Arabian Sea. It's a different feel to see these creatures in the wild, playing along with their brood. A couple of these curious mammals did come close to my Ship to investigate it and swam along with her for about a mile, until a new batch of dolphins took over and continued swimming ahead of the ship's bow for another mile or so and were replaced by yet another batch for another mile. It seemed like the dolphins were escorting my ship as we passed through their wild territory. Since these mammals need to surface every 5-6 minutes to breathe, we at sea, see these mammals often, especially in warm waters.