Dolphins Swim Near Boat Off English Isles of Scilly

A pod of dolphins was seen keeping pace with a boat sailing south of England’s Isles of Scilly on Sunday, May 2, according to video footage.

Paula Badcock said she captured this footage about four miles south of St Mary’s, the largest and most populous island of the Isles of Scilly. Badcock shared the video to a Facebook group, saying she witnessed “hundreds” of dolphins in the pod.

A dolphin pod may contain from two to 30 individuals, but dolphin pods sometimes join together to form megapods or superpods with “hundreds or even thousands” of dolphins swimming in unison, according to the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. Credit: Paula Badcock via Storyful