Monterey Bay Whale Watch recently sent out a scouting boat on the coast south of Monterey ahead of its 2025 season. It was a successful scouting trip, to put it mildly. The whale-watching company wrote in a social-media post that the boat covered 62 miles round trip between Monterey and Point Sur, and, along the way, they spotted 33 gray whales, three northern right whales, and more than 1,500 Risso’s dolphins—that qualifies as a super pod.
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“Check out this SUPER POD of over 1500 Rissos Dolphins our scouting boat spent time with in Carmel Bay yesterday!!” wrote Monterey Bay Whale Watch in its Instagram post sharing drone footage of the super pod. There are so many dolphins that from up high, they just look like tiny white dots. NOAA reports that these animals typically congregate in groups of between 10 and 30. Clearly, though, they sometimes amass in huge groups that travel together.
Check out the drone footage showing a super pod of Risso’s dolphins off the coast of California:
And here’s some news coverage including an interview with the whale-watching company:
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Growing up in NJ during the 60s we’d spend our Summers at a Family Owned house in Wildwood Crest. It wasn’t uncommon for the Life Guards to call everyone out of the water several times a day 2 or more times a week as Huge Schools of Dolphins would seemingly Fly by the Jersey Shore between 30 and 150 feet off the shoreline. The shear volume and number made counting them impossible but easily numbered in the Thousands or even several thousands as they’d cover as much of the Ocean as your eyes could see. The Lifeguards after the 1st few days of summer would finally stop calling the alarm à s they soon realized or were told that as long as the Dolphins were around there’d be no Sharks in the Immediate area. I also worked on a Charter Fishing boat cutting bait,rigging poles and fileting the catch on the way in. The Dolphins used to ride our wake on the way out and especially on the way in as we threw the entrails from our fish cleaning overboard creating a smorgasbord for them. There’d always be at least 100 or more every single day and they’d latch onto our wake shortly after passing through the breakwater. It’s always so beautiful to see Dolphins in great numbers bring back the wonderful memories I have