Watch Above: Courtesy of RCM SAR.
They have seen lots of seals, lots of porpoises and the odd whale, but they’ve never seen a sight quite like this one.
About five Royal Canadian Marine Search & Rescue (RCM SAR) volunteers were out on the water in southern Howe Sound, between Fisherman’s Cove and Bowen Island, on Thursday night, when hundreds of dolphins surrounded their boat.
Jumping and playing on the waves, keeping up with their boat, the dolphins seemed to come out of nowhere.
“We saw a splash and then hundreds of dolphins were around us,” said deputy station leader Ian Grantham in an email interview.
WATCH: Raw video of dolphins delighting B.C. boaters
RCM SAR is an all-volunteer marine Search and Rescue organization, which is tasked by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, (JRCC) and the Canadian Coast Guard. There are 43 stations up and down the coast and in the interior lakes, with about 1,100 volunteers in total.
Last year the group responded to 79 calls from their station in Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver.
Formerly the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary, the team underwent a name change a few years ago and have been a part of the marine SAR community for many years. They respond to any and all types of marine emergencies.
They are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
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