Swimming side by side with dolphins in the ocean is the dream of many adventurous friends.
Adam Walker, from the United Kingdom, inadvertently fulfilled this wish during a journey across New Zealand's Cook Strait.
And the dolphin at that time was not only his companion on the road, but probably also protected his patron saint from the hands of death.
Adam was on a 16-mile Cook Strait Challenge with a support boat with him.
As he swam in open water, suddenly a swarm of dolphins approached him, swam in circles around him, and jumped out of the water from time to time.
At the same time, Adam was suddenly surprised to find that there was a six-foot-long great white shark in the waters below him.
"I told myself to try not to panic."
But his subsequent experience seems to be described as a "miracle": whenever the shark wants to get closer, the dolphin will surround him with a ring, keeping Adam safe from shark attacks.
Adam said: "I think they are protecting me, guiding me home, and then swimming around me." ”
As you can see from the video taken at the time, the dolphin swam around the Adam and the support boat, and the nearest time may be only a few meters away from the Adam in the water.
"The dolphins couldn't speak, so I didn't know if they came to help me, but when the sharks left, they stayed with me for almost 50 minutes, which was a surprising experience."
In the end, Adam finished the event in 8 hours and 36 minutes, after which he said that before he went into the water, a friend told him that there were no sharks here, and it was not until he swam all the way that he found that there were sharks looking at him.
But all the thrills and fatigues are nothing compared to the joy of walking with dolphins.
"More important than that, I realized a dream of actually swimming with dolphins for more than an hour."
In addition to "guarding" Adam this time, dolphins' "acts of kindness" to help human swimmers drive away sharks are actually not uncommon.
A friend encountered a shark while diving in Hawaii last year, and then a swarm of dolphins appeared to drive away sharks that were close to humans.
In fact, dolphins are also one of the prey of large sharks, and gathering in circles is the main way dolphins protect themselves from shark attacks, and they often use this method to drive away predators.
Whether the dolphins came together to protect Adam this time is unknown, but judging by the results, they did drive the sharks away.
After this unforgettable experience, Adam is also currently raising money to protect cetaceans.
Hope this magical creature
Be able to continue for a long time
Continue to live in this blue ocean