Big Bottlenose Dolphin Launches Out of Wave Landing Right In Front of Surfer (Clip)

There's been a helluva lot of amazing shark footage lately.

We've been reporting on a lot of encounters between sharks and surfers because they seem to be showing up a lot more than other sea life, like the great white following behind this swimmer. That's not surprising, considering sharks are around people in the water 97% of the time, according to a study from Cal State Long Beach's Shark Lab.

But there's so much other sea life to get lucky enough to see, like the mother Southern Right whale and her calf cruising an Australian lineup recently, and even the penguins swimming around surfers in Brazil.

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Today, we've got some awesome drone footage of a bottlenose dolphin speeding through the lineup and a crowd of surfers in conditions that look pretty damn good.

In SurfStage's TikTok clip above, a bottlenose dolphin swims through a wave in a crowded lineup. It bursts through the water and launches into the air, diving back into the ocean right in front of a surfer, so close it basically lands nose-to-nose with his board.

This guy got lucky since the dolphin missed him and his board by a matter of inches.

We can't say the same for this paddleboarder who had a bottlenose dolphin slam right into him earlier this summer.

Bottlenose dolphins can weigh anywhere from 300 to 1,400 pounds. With a weight like that and the speed it was traveling at, that’s gotta hurt.

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