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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