[CINC] Dolphins' Magic Rings

[RobertsonEnviron at aol.com]

I, too, have seen this video;   and it looks really cool.
Too cool to be real (in my opinion).   I don't buy the explanation provided.

I checked out snopes.com, which is usually quite good at providing true/false 
analyses of a wide variety of stuff, including photographs of animals; but I 
could not find any evidence that they have looked at this one.

On the other hand, some weird stuff happens.   I was on the Condor a couple 
years ago and we had a particularly playful Humpback.   He/she would wave its 
flukes back and forth under water for us.   Gave us a big burp of bubbles from 
far below us, etc., etc.   The coolest of all was this:  it was deep enough 
that we could not see the whale, but it apparently blew an air ring--a perfect 
torus (doughnut shaped) bubble that was 2 or 3 ft across when it hit the 
surface.   (It was not a bunch of small bubbles arranged in a ring.)   The 
cross-sectional diameter of the air in the ring was about 6 inches.   (Exact dimensions 
may be off--it was a while back.)   
Very cool.

Scott B. Robertson

Robertson Environmental Services
100 Springdale Ct
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Ph: (805) 493-1142
Fax: (805) 493-0142



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