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Capt. Dave's Ocean ReportAs
seen weekly in the Dana Point News/Orange County Register November 18, 2005
We have not seen any blue whales for quite a while but we had one humpback sighting. The humpback was spotted by our crew off Dana Point while I was away for ten days speaking aboard a cruise ship – someone had to do it, and after all they gave us a free cruise for our whole family and all I had to do was three fifty minute talks - heck that’s just as long as a Dolphin Safari. Did anyone miss the column, I haven’t done it for a month, if so, please let me know I could use the encouragement. Email me here and let me know! We saw something in the water about three feet long recently that looked like a snake. Tom thought it was a piece of kelp but I had him go over near it and it actually stuck its head out of the water and swam over to us. Most of the passengers agreed it was a snake since it appeared to be surfacing to breathe. I explained to them that we don’t have any sea snakes off California and all sea snakes are venomous so this was most interesting. It kept coming over near us and as I photographed it I noticed it had a big fish like eye. I called my friend Mike Bursk on the sea explorer and asked if he ever saw anything like it – No he hadn’t, so he used our description and looked up our sighting in one of their fish books and narrowed it down to two likely suspects both of them eels. When I got home I made a positive I.D. - a snipe eel. Usually found in deep water and rarely seen on surface. We also had an unusual sighting on our boat see photo. No that ghoulish figure was not some late trick or treater and no it was not the real Marilyn Manson rock star but an English impersonator from a big comedy show on Channel 4 in England who went out on a dolphin Safari recently trip. The Christmas show will feature people like supermodel Rachel Hunter and Brigit Nielson interacting with the impersonator as he impersonates the likes of Sylvester Stallone etc., but all we got was Marylin Manson acting like an English gentleman and wanting to buy a dolphin, they said I was the celebrity, what a laugh! Marilyn was a bit annoying, as he kept calling me Mildred and got a bit vulgar with some juvenile humor regarding the sex lives and bathroom habits of dolphins, (that caused me to walk away a few times), but other than that he was actually quite funny at times with a quick wit as he bounced back off what I was saying quite a bit. They promised to send me a copy of the whole show. You know, we have been featured on the Travel channel, the Fine Living Channel, we’ve taken out Imax filmmakers, appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, HD news and others, we’ve even done prime time reality shows like For Love or Money, but this was definitely a low spot. Oh well, maybe it will look better with the super models in it. Well guys it’s good to be back after some time off, hope you feel the same. That’s it till next week. God bless. Capt. Dave, over and out. ____________________________________________________________________ CALL US (949)488-2828 FOR YOUR RESERVATIONS.
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