Very cool. In my (limited) experience freediving gets you way more cool wildlife interactions like this than scuba. My theory is that you seem more like a fellow animal rather than some scary mechanoid. Never had dolphins come round, but had harbour seals hang out and play with me, very cool experience.
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i was swimming in the ocean once and the dolphins came and kept poking my stomach with their noses. dicks
i bet they understand pretty quickly if you show them that they're just tools and you're not actually hurt or whatever
Watching him swim through the jellyfish is giving me Sphere vibes.
Living near the coast I've gone snorkeling a lot and I've never liked that, swimming through clouds of jellyfish, capable of stinging or no.
I'd appreciate the novelty of doing it once with entirely safe ones, but I'd hate to lose that much visibility in open ocean.
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