One of the great delights of working aboard a boat for a living is that you get to see, for free, the full range of incredible sights and sounds - top of everyone's favourite sight to experience is being surrounded by hundreds of dolphins. When there were a small fleet of Newlyn boats working the Celtic Deeps for langoustine in the early 1980s there were a number of days when around 1,000 dolphins were seen. They swam past heading north east on one day, and headed back on a recprocal course the next - jumping out of the watere and swimming on their tails seemingly purely for the fun of it!
This week the crew and scientists aboard the Cefas Endeavour have been treated to a similar show - and this time they have caught the dolphins on video - great shot taken over the bow guys - keep up the good work on the blogs Cefas and JNCC!