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Caught On Video: Breaching Orca Slams Into Dolphin In Mid-Air

Tourists on a diving boat off the coast of Baja California Sur captured the leaping orca and dolphin on camera.


BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR (CBSLA) — Tourists on a diving boat thought they were just enjoying the sight of dolphins leaping out of the water, when an orca breached and slammed into one of them.

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Video shows several boats around a stretch of water in the Gulf of California as a dolphin leaps out of the water to the delight of the people watching. They then reacted with loud shouts of shock when a much larger orca breached, hitting the dolphin that was already out of the air, and leaping high.

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