Watch as a dolphin and a fish go on a death match in the shallows. Winner gets a meal
This dolphin knows how to win.
See Through Canoe, a Seminole, Florida-based company that manufactures transparent kayak-canoe hybrids in St. Petersburg, sent one of its drones over the shallow waters of Tampa Bay. In the resulting video, posted Monday on Facebook, a bottlenose dolphin chases down a Crevalle Jack fish for a seafood meal.
In the clip, the sleek dolphin proves persistent and ever-agile as it swims sideways, executes precise hairpin turns, and startles some stingrays that just happened to be hiding in the sand during the death match, the company posted on its Facebook page.
Not that the Jack — a predatory marine fish that grows to about two feet and sometimes more — gives it up easy for the dolphin. There are times in the nearly four-minute video clip when the fish winds up parallel and sometimes behind the dolphin as they seem to take turns leading the charge.
“Now who was cheering for the dolphin and who was cheering for the fish?” asked one of the people who commented on the Facebook video, which has been viewed more than 88,000 times by Wednesday morning.
“50-50,” read a reply.
“A lot of work for a fish dinner,” read another.
The drone was operated by See Through Canoe’s Michael McCarthy, Fox 13 reported.
“I really didn’t think I had the drone skills, but I guess I’ve gotten better than I thought,” McCarthy told the Miami Herald about the watch-til-the-end video.
This story was originally published February 27, 2019 at 11:57 AM.
