In the Navy in 1971 we were on the
Pacific aboard the Guided Missile Light Cruiser USS PROVIDENCE, flagship for
Commander First Fleet Vice Admiral Bernard F. Roeder. We were cruising off the coast when Ship Captain
John B. Walker made an announcement over the p.a. system that anyone free at
this time should go to the main deck and see the dolphins.
We stopped at a right angle to the
dolphin’s direction of travel. The dolphins were in rows four to six wide, the
ship stopped in the middle of their formation, they jumped near the side of our
ship, went down, swam under our ship, came up and continued jumping on the other
side, and kept jumping, on and on.
The line of jumping Dolphins extended
on each side from horizon to horizon, as far as we could see in either
direction. How many dolphins was
that? Ten thousand? A hundred thousand? A million?
They jumped and passed by for twenty-five minutes that we saw.
Then they quit jumping, they all quit
jumping at the same time as if a signal had been given to tell them that that
was enough. That was it. After a few minutes of seeing not a single
dolphin, only the flat sea, the captain started moving the ship forward
again. The show was over. It was incredible. I thought every dolphin in the world had
gathered for that migration, or was it a demonstration?
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