KAILUA, Hawaii, Aug. 18 (Ben Hooper) — A honeymooning couple on a snorkeling trip in Hawaii captured footage of a wild dolphin showing off its acrobatic prowess with aerial barrel rolls.
Ryan Pipes of Wisconsin shared a video on YouTube showing his underwater encounter with a friendly wild dolphin while on a snorkeling tour in Kailua-Kona.
The dolphin takes a spinning leap out of the water before a high-speed swim past the snorkeling onlookers.
The “spinner dolphin” then embarks on a series of high-speed barrel roll jumps into the air to show off for its new human friends.
A second video shared by Pipes shows the dolphin close-up underwater and a remora suckerfish can be seen clinging to the ocean mammal’s body.
