Surfer Wipes Out On Dolphin

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A paddle surfer from California is knocked off his board by a wave filled with dolphins, and he caught on camera the moment he collided with one of those poor porpoises.

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00:00 Imagine, you're surfing off the coast of Australia, and you spot wild dolphins swimming

00:05 around you.

00:06 Swimming with wild dolphins may be something you want to check off your bucket list, but

00:09 surfer Sam Yu nearly had his bucket kicked when a dolphin leaped out of the water and

00:14 landed right on top of him.

00:16 "Before one of them gets a little too close."

00:18 "Oh, just hit that guy!"

00:20 Wipeout!

00:21 Thankfully, Sam nor the dolphin were injured by this collision.

00:26 Sam even kept surfing while the dolphins kept their distance.

00:29 "They communicated to each other that every time I'm paddling, they're coming, they're

00:34 supposed to jump, they were getting away from me."

00:37 Sam's run-in with a dolphin may seem like a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but dolphin

00:41 on surfer body slams are on the rise.

00:44 In 2015, surfer Matt Minich captured this first-person footage of a dolphin leaping

00:48 from a wave and knocking him off his board.

00:51 Harsh!

00:52 In 2016, a dolphin landed on Australian teenager Jed Grattison, putting its nose through Jed's

00:58 surfboard.

00:59 Gnarly!

01:00 So, what do you think?

01:01 Is it a simple accident?

01:02 Or did the dolphin body slam Sam on purpose?

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