00:00Well, watching it's been posting videos of their recent encounters which have generated millions of views.
00:05They include sharks as well as dolphins leaping out of the air right next to their boat.
00:11When these things are going higher than the wheelhouse, it's spectacular.
00:14Erica Sacreson was the photographer aboard a recent gone whale watching tour
00:19when this pod of bottlenose dolphins caught her eye as well as everyone else's on board.
00:24You could just see them jumping like 20 feet in the air and everybody on the boat just started pointing
00:29and I'm like, what is everybody looking at?
00:30Almost feels like they were doing like Olympic style jumps.
00:32Like they were just all trying to be like Simone Biles and just touch the sky and come down.
00:36It was awesome.
00:37Erica's videos are often posted on Gone Whale Watching's Instagram page in just one week.
00:42This one has already generated over 7 million views.
00:46On the day it was taken, she says the boat encountered huge pods every couple of miles right off the coast of Mission Bay.
00:52Gone Whale Watching founder Dominic Biagini says there are a couple of reasons for that.
00:56For starters, there's an abundance of food.
00:58And anchovies are really, really popular food source and especially for the common dolphins.
01:03But we've also been seeing bottlenose dolphins in bigger numbers.
01:06And the bottlenose dolphins are the ones that you see in those spectacular videos leaping into the air.
01:12And oftentimes when we see bottlenose dolphins here in numbers like that,
01:15it's because there's a lot of squid in San Diego waters.
01:19So most likely we have an influx of squid right now.
01:21In addition to dolphins, Dominic says he's been seeing a lot of sharks too.
01:26He credits the sunny skies and smoother water, which make visibility much better.
01:31He captured this video of a great white just a few days ago,
01:34saying it's only the second time he's seen one far away from the shoreline.
01:38I see them all the time in coastal waters, but it's very rare to actually spot a great white offshore.
01:43Because of the prime conditions and increase in sightings,
01:46Dominic has added so-called great white shark trips to his tour schedule.
01:50He warns if other boaters plan to do the same,
01:53depending on where you are, use extra caution by going slowly and lifting your engines up if possible.
01:59When you're in our very, very shallow coastal waters here,
02:02it's really crucial to keep your speed down because you don't know what might be just beneath the surface.
02:07Dominic says doing so will not only increase your chances of seeing something spectacular,
02:12but also keep whatever it is safe from harm.
02:15Shayna Handy, CBS 8.
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