In the 90's I had the honour of spending time with Oleen, a female wild dolphine living in Nuweba in the Sinai. She was clearly highly intellegent. When I looked into her eyes, I saw intellegence looking back at me. There was some one home and the lights were on. Never experience anything like that with any other creature. May she rest in peace dear Oleen. I will always remember you.
Reminds me of Fungie, a dolphin that made Dingle Harbour in Ireland his home for decades, always happily showing up for boats with tourists. Fungie is believed to have died or moved elsewhere in 2020.
I once squeaked and clicked my surfboard at some. One stopped, raised his eye and looked at me for 30 sec. Forty-five minutes later, on his way back, he turned on his side to give me a tail wag. I swear they let you know a set is coming.
That's why most people picture a bottle-nose dolphin when asked about the animal. Also, the pro and college teams that use the dolphin as a mascot, use the bottle-nose.
Growing up in Fort Lauderdale in the 60s foreword, my favorite show was Flipper and I loved seeing the dolphins at the beach, the keys and following the ship from Gulfport out the ships island when we visited. That whole lifestyle is an amazing way to grow up. When the waves were up on Fort Lauderdale beach the dolphins would hang out with the surfers and follow them towards the shore.
Got to swim with wild dolphins a few times here in NZ , we have had several dolphins that are famous. The latest one was moko ....... dolphins been my favorite animal since I was a kid . I actually used my shepherds whistle to call a pod one day and play around in water with them
I was rushing to the comments to see how many "dolphins aren't fish" comments there were, only for THG to set the record straight in the first few moments. Darn! The uproar would have been hilarious.
Everyone loves the king of the sea Ever so kind and gentle is he Tricks he will do when children appear And how they laugh when he's near They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning No one, you see, is smarter than he And we know Flipper lives in a world full of wonder Flying there under, under the sea
Bow wave riding. It's a common thing that dolphins do. They do it a lot with submarines transiting on the surface due to the large bow wave that the sonar dome produces.
One of my favorite childhood memories was as a kid riding in my Dad's speedboat, and a few dolphins accompanied us for awhile, when we were fishing in the Gulf Of Mexico offshore from North Florida. Dad even reached over and petted one of them. Cool critters! 😊
Technically the Mahi-Mahi is also called a dolphin fish or just dolphin for short in the past. I remember being confused reading Old Man and the Sea because they easily caught "dolphin" to eat.
This is a very good show to watch about a variety of history topics. The narrator does an excellent job, keeping the story interesting as well as understood. Keep up the great work.
Thank you so much. Your stories are always so interesting. I look forward to seeing more. Also,why is it that some people on seeing a beautiful creature their first instinct is to kill it? Many people are just plain horrible.
They play in the pressure wave. I have had the joy of being in the company of a pod in crystal clear Atlantic water at night, with phosphoresence present. They would swim along side and then sound en masse. I could see them very deeply. After a while they would come exploding upward then resume their company.
Pretty cool that New Zealand immortalizes this animal on the side of its ferry's. I wonder if the majority of Kiwi's know why the dolphin is pictured on the side?
@@HM2SGT About 80km as the crow flies. Mrs Chippy is in Karori Cemetery in Wellington in the North Island while Pelorous Jack is on Collinet Point near French Pass on the South Island. Confusingly you would have to travel East by South East From French Pass to Karori as the islands overlap
Here's something for you. Did you know that, Greeks don't pronounce Crete like English speakers do, they say it something like, Kreta. Well that's how Takis from Takis Shelter says it, and he was born and still lives on Crete.
@@Elora445 It occurred to me after I'd posted this, that maybe Crete as in kreet was maybe a translation in to English, like the way München is called Munich in English. That's always fascinated me, I mean who do you translate the name of a city in to another language, and why is it only large well know places get a translation?
I would postulate that the ‘Jack’ people identify as ‘Pelorus’ was in fact many of the same species. My vessel, with which I sailed these waters, was a dolphin magnet. Where ever I went I was accompanied by many. To this day, I could not recognise one from another. All that said, I too know, and believe in, Pelorus Jack. 👍❤️
@@Hotwire_RCTrix With the distinction that the ‘smith’ suffix was traditionally applied to metal trades, e.g. blacksmith or tin smith or gunsmith, and the ‘wright’ suffix was applied to wood working trades like millwright or shipwright.
This reminds me of 'Old Tom', an Orca that was known to locals on the south coast of NSW for 80 years. He would pull whaling boats out to the whales by grabbing a bow rope in his jaws. Strange but true. Check out the Wikipedia page.
Guiding the ships in? Yeah they were a bit dim witted back then and not particularly educated. And at 7:12 THG makes the point I came here for. The “fish” was playing in the bow wave not guiding them.
The story I read many years ago, is that Pelorus Jack was known and loved by all New Zealanders and was the unofficial greeter for all ships approaching the sound on the South Island. Then one day, after many years, he was shot and killed by some thug on a cargo ship and the whole country went into mourning.
😶 I'll never understand making shows about villains & glorifying evil. Discouraging that this sort of wallowing in criminality, wickedness & cruelty is 'entertainment.' 🫤
nature is a wonderful thing. 14 years ago i spent the winter in matlacha on pine island florida. i fished a lot in a 14 ft fishing boat. a dolphin would follow me around. when i would stop he would stop. he would just sit there watching me from about 20 ft away. when i would catch a fish he would come up to the boat stick his head over the side and look at me from one to two ft. away. he would just look at me with those big eyes. he would not take the fish from my hand. if i dropped it in the water next to him he would go after it. like i said nature is a wonderful thing.
Nah, fluffy wans are just tree rats, with the exception of Vulgaris. Prefer Orcas to Dolphins but Pelorus Jack sounds like a legend. Came here after doing some research on the ship HMS New Zealand. Ships mascot was a Jack Russel called Pelorus Jack.
If you like stories of Polaris Jack, try the history of whaling at Tow Fold Bay in NSW. Men & orcas working together to hunt whales, more whale that any else, the largest whales & the only ones who could work at night.
Not a fish? Balderdash! Does it not swim in the water? Does it go to land to rest? Of course it is a fish! Oh, you say it has lungs, warm blood, and a horizontal tail. Well, naturally, it does, just like all the other spouting fishes!
This is part of the reason the kids these days can have a field day with "their" pronouns. "He" throughout this legend after admitting you can't confirm is durty, dirty, dirty. I'd either give credit to the profiling ability of the fisherman/seamen at oars length, or recite "Jack" every time you have this particular opal of the sea in mind. People who could read and write were calling it a fish, too. Edited to Correct Autocorrect
There is a tale that the island people tell Don't care if it is true 'cause I love it so well Jolly Mon sing for his supper every night The people fed him well 'cause he treated them so right Oh-oh-oh, Jolly Mon sing Oh-oh-oh, make Orion ring And they wanted him to sing on the island near and far He always found his way by Orion, lucky star He'd tell them of their joys, he'd tell them of their woes They loved to see him come, they'd hate to see him go Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the music ring He was makin' his way home on a dark and stormy night When he heard a cry for help, he saw a flashin' light When he reached the other boat and offered them a hand They said, "Give us all your cargo, " as they took a pirate stand Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), give 'em everything "Jolly Mon, it's over, sing your last song very well" They tossed him in the ocean 'cause their hearts were made in Hell Came along a dolphin, he said, "Jolly Mon, hello" "I've always loved your singing, climb aboard, don't let go" Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the oceans ring The night was filled with magic, they bid the sea goodbye They swam into the heavens, they stayed up in the sky And all the island people when they wish upon a star See the dolphin and the Jolly Mon who tell 'em where they are Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the heavens ring Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the magic ring Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh, Jolly Mon sing
In the 90's I had the honour of spending time with Oleen, a female wild dolphine living in Nuweba in the Sinai.
She was clearly highly intellegent. When I looked into her eyes, I saw intellegence looking back at me. There was some one home and the lights were on.
Never experience anything like that with any other creature. May she rest in peace dear Oleen. I will always remember you.
Reminds me of Fungie, a dolphin that made Dingle Harbour in Ireland his home for decades, always happily showing up for boats with tourists. Fungie is believed to have died or moved elsewhere in 2020.
Exactly what I thought when I first saw this post
So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Baaah haa haaa!!!! Indeed!
can't upvote lucky thirteen...😂
You know where your towel is.
@@jonathanwetherell3609 - always!
@@jonathanwetherell3609 A sure sign of a cool frood.
Required reading back in the Caribbean in the 70s. This story has been indelibly stamped in my mind since I first read it at 7 years old.
Tears in the eyes for these wonderful super loving, and smart creatures that have enriched our lives for millinium. Love them!!
I once squeaked and clicked my surfboard at some. One stopped, raised his eye and looked at me for 30 sec. Forty-five minutes later, on his way back, he turned on his side to give me a tail wag. I swear they let you know a set is coming.
Also ‘Opo’ another dolphin who interacted with humans in New Zealand in the mid-50s.
Similarly immortalised in print/film/song and statuary.
🎼🎵 *_They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning. No one under the sea is faster than he_* 🎶 😊
I haven't thought about that show in ages! 😮😊
That's why most people picture a bottle-nose dolphin when asked about the animal. Also, the pro and college teams that use the dolphin as a mascot, use the bottle-nose.
Flipper is obviously the best-known dolphin, and loved by tens of millions who grew up in the 60's. 🐬Jaws is definitely the world's best-known fish. 🦈
The first thing that came to my mind. 8
That would make a Great, "Behind the Scenes: "Flipper Edition" (shouldn't be forgotten.)
Growing up in Fort Lauderdale in the 60s foreword, my favorite show was Flipper and I loved seeing the dolphins at the beach, the keys and following the ship from Gulfport out the ships island when we visited. That whole lifestyle is an amazing way to grow up. When the waves were up on Fort Lauderdale beach the dolphins would hang out with the surfers and follow them towards the shore.
Got to swim with wild dolphins a few times here in NZ , we have had several dolphins that are famous. The latest one was moko ....... dolphins been my favorite animal since I was a kid . I actually used my shepherds whistle to call a pod one day and play around in water with them
I was rushing to the comments to see how many "dolphins aren't fish" comments there were, only for THG to set the record straight in the first few moments. Darn! The uproar would have been hilarious.
You're right, dolphins arent fish. Like tomatoes, dolphins are actually fruit.....
😅👍 Indeed. I suspect no few of us were gripped by the urge to make a similar correction in the throes of mild cases of pedanticy.
@@HighlanderNorth1😂
How do you tell the difference between a fish and marine mammal? A fish's tail is vertical; while a marine mammal's tail, aka a fluke, is horizontal.
@@tygrkhat4087And.... Fish breath water, mammals breath air. 😊
So did Jack guide pirates or not?
"All good stories have pirates in them', right?
Everyone loves the king of the sea
Ever so kind and gentle is he
Tricks he will do when children appear
And how they laugh when he's near
They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning
No one, you see, is smarter than he
And we know Flipper lives in a world full of wonder
Flying there under, under the sea
Flipper, Gentle Ben, Lassie, Skippy - legends all.
I AM MISTER ED!
mr ed
Bow wave riding. It's a common thing that dolphins do. They do it a lot with submarines transiting on the surface due to the large bow wave that the sonar dome produces.
One of my favorite childhood memories was as a kid riding in my Dad's speedboat, and a few dolphins accompanied us for awhile, when we were fishing in the Gulf Of Mexico offshore from North Florida. Dad even reached over and petted one of them. Cool critters! 😊
Technically the Mahi-Mahi is also called a dolphin fish or just dolphin for short in the past. I remember being confused reading Old Man and the Sea because they easily caught "dolphin" to eat.
This is a very good show to watch about a variety of history topics. The narrator does an excellent job, keeping the story interesting as well as understood. Keep up the great work.
There's nothing like an historical fish tale to start the weekend! Thanks, sir. My whole family loves your content!
I love the story of Pelorus Jack. Thank you for focusing on this one.
The harbor porpoise of Maine and coastal Canada is only about 4 feet long! We saw several while on a cruise boat around Acadia National Park.
Thank you so much. Your stories are always so interesting. I look forward to seeing more. Also,why is it that some people on seeing a beautiful creature their first instinct is to kill it? Many people are just plain horrible.
They play in the pressure wave. I have had the joy of being in the company of a pod in crystal clear Atlantic water at night, with phosphoresence present. They would swim along side and then sound en masse. I could see them very deeply. After a while they would come exploding upward then resume their company.
A wonderful, heart warming story 😊
what a great history story! In the scope of historical context, it is small...maybe that is what actually makes it great.
This is what I would call a porpoise-led life... lol
We should all endeavor to live a porpoise-full life !
Norm MacDonald "I'm serving a youthful porpoise"
Dolphins have also been known to protect swimmers from sharks.
Pretty cool that New Zealand immortalizes this animal on the side of its ferry's. I wonder if the majority of Kiwi's know why the dolphin is pictured on the side?
*I wonder how far that is from the statue of Mrs. Chippy, Shackleton's ship's carpenter's tomcat?*
Some folks from New Zealand don't like the nickname. I avoid it, as there is no familiarity inherent in using it. But never call them Australians!
@@HM2SGT About 80km as the crow flies.
Mrs Chippy is in Karori Cemetery in Wellington in the North Island while Pelorous Jack is on Collinet Point near French Pass on the South Island.
Confusingly you would have to travel East by South East From French Pass to Karori as the islands overlap
@@chrissherer2047 I have never met any New Zealander that objects being called Kiwi.
Thank you again THG, for another interesting & educational glimpse.
Good morning! Nothing like a fresh historical story. 👍
Here's to hoping that another Jack comes along and makes history to.
Thank you for the lesson.
I really liked this story. Refreshing and heart warming.
Thanks, THG. Great "fish" tale.
I love your channel, your videos are truly amazing! Thank you!
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Thank you so much for this. Pelorus Jack is a local legend. I've travelled the waterways you refer to and a dolphin guide would have been very useful.
Thank you History Guy
"I wanna fight ya" says the Rizzo's dolphin.
This is such a great story! Thank you for your fortitude in the details.
Here's something for you. Did you know that, Greeks don't pronounce Crete like English speakers do, they say it something like, Kreta. Well that's how Takis from Takis Shelter says it, and he was born and still lives on Crete.
I've visited Crete twice; 1995 while deployed on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41 and 2002 while deployed on USS Wasp LHD 1.
The main port city of Crete is variously spelled Hania, Chania, and Xania ! Pronounced by beginning with a guttural "ch" sound and ending in "ya".
Really? In Sweden Crete is called Kreta. Probably not at all pronounced the same, though. :)
@@Elora445 It occurred to me after I'd posted this, that maybe Crete as in kreet was maybe a translation in to English, like the way München is called Munich in English. That's always fascinated me, I mean who do you translate the name of a city in to another language, and why is it only large well know places get a translation?
I would postulate that the ‘Jack’ people identify as ‘Pelorus’ was in fact many of the same species.
My vessel, with which I sailed these waters, was a dolphin magnet. Where ever I went I was accompanied by many.
To this day, I could not recognise one from another.
All that said, I too know, and believe in, Pelorus Jack. 👍❤️
He was well recognized and never encountered as a pod.
*Makes me think of the statue of Mrs. Chippy, Shackleton's ship's Carpenter's Tomcat. Wellington NZ has a statue of him.* 😻
You might want to look at the Killer Whales of Eden NSW
Jack of all trades. Jack meant skilled individual.
Master of none. Generalists, great to have on the team. 😃
@@HM2SGT yes that's the saying that comes from the phrase. However a 'smith' would be a recognised trades person in a time before colleges.
@@Hotwire_RCTrix
With the distinction that the ‘smith’ suffix was traditionally applied to metal trades, e.g. blacksmith or tin smith or gunsmith, and the ‘wright’ suffix was applied to wood working trades like millwright or shipwright.
That was a fun story/video... thanks for this one.
i read about this in a ripley's believe it or not comic!
Pelorus Jack was also a subject of Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story."
This reminds me of 'Old Tom', an Orca that was known to locals on the south coast of NSW for 80 years. He would pull whaling boats out to the whales by grabbing a bow rope in his jaws. Strange but true. Check out the Wikipedia page.
Love your videos
Guiding the ships in?
Yeah they were a bit dim witted back then and not particularly educated.
And at 7:12 THG makes the point I came here for.
The “fish” was playing in the bow wave not guiding them.
Also known as “Jack the Flipper”?😂😂
The story I read many years ago, is that Pelorus Jack was known and loved by all New Zealanders and was the unofficial greeter for all ships approaching the sound on the South Island. Then one day, after many years, he was shot and killed by some thug on a cargo ship and the whole country went into mourning.
It is, at least, unproven that the animal was shot to death, and its body was never found.
The whole story does seem somewhat fishy..
Whomp whomp 😂
Why no pirates???
The dolphin is the emblem of submarines.
That's the facts Jack !😊
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😶 I'll never understand making shows about villains & glorifying evil. Discouraging that this sort of wallowing in criminality, wickedness & cruelty is 'entertainment.' 🫤
TY!
"a significant amount of spiritual significance"
Significant.
Good evening
What a great story
nature is a wonderful thing. 14 years ago i spent the winter in matlacha on pine island florida. i fished a lot in a 14 ft fishing boat. a dolphin would follow me around. when i would stop he would stop. he would just sit there watching me from about 20 ft away. when i would catch a fish he would come up to the boat stick his head over the side and look at me from one to two ft. away. he would just look at me with those big eyes. he would not take the fish from my hand. if i dropped it in the water next to him he would go after it. like i said nature is a wonderful thing.
I was a little worried Rizzo's dolphin was going to be from an all aquatic rendition of Grease.
My god, an Orca, or killer whale, is actually a dolphin, well I never, I guess every day is really a school day.
Indeed orcas definitely have gotten a bad rap. Seems like rats and squirrels; one of them gets a pass because they're fluffy fuzzy and cute🤷
Nah, fluffy wans are just tree rats, with the exception of Vulgaris.
Prefer Orcas to Dolphins but Pelorus Jack sounds like a legend.
Came here after doing some research on the ship HMS New Zealand.
Ships mascot was a Jack Russel called Pelorus Jack.
If you like stories of Polaris Jack, try the history of whaling at Tow Fold Bay in NSW. Men & orcas working together to hunt whales, more whale that any else, the largest whales & the only ones who could work at night.
A swimming yarn!
Sounds a little "Fishy" to me!!
I love dolphins and whales. Never hurt them!
How many times did it have to be identified as a rizzo's dolphin?
Tales of Dolphins pushing people offshore are lacking.
Just poppin in to say i love ya dude keep it up! Youre fucking awesome
And when he returns, he will look up the statue and say "statue Bro?"
And the Japanese are killing bottlenose dolphins by the thousands, with their dolphin drives. Shame on them.
how is this any different than turning cows into burgers? go shame yourself.
I wonder if @Your New Zealand Family knows about this story.
I don't see how that could be true, I mean, I've never heard of him before
I hear they taste like chicken.
Great White Cufflinks 👀
Dolphins are cute.
Last time i looked dolphin were mammals 😮
They are. The title is from a period newspaper. The species of the animal wasn’t known at the time.
I was thinking tuna or salmon....
No pirates? Darn. Great story, though.
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally
A Rizzo's Dolphin invented the Calamari Pizza.
For all you dolphin lovers, dolphins are a holes. I've been attacked twice.
Did passengers and merchant marines throw food at him?
Yes, but usually he was said not to seem to care too much.
Not a fish? Balderdash! Does it not swim in the water? Does it go to land to rest? Of course it is a fish! Oh, you say it has lungs, warm blood, and a horizontal tail. Well, naturally, it does, just like all the other spouting fishes!
🐬🐬🐬
36th, 4 October 2024
This is part of the reason the kids these days can have a field day with "their" pronouns.
"He" throughout this legend after admitting you can't confirm is durty, dirty, dirty.
I'd either give credit to the profiling ability of the fisherman/seamen at oars length, or recite "Jack" every time you have this particular opal of the sea in mind.
People who could read and write were calling it a fish, too.
Edited to Correct Autocorrect
08:00 I know a few women who can do this brain trick for long periods, years actually.
So sad that whales and dolphins are still killed.
Be nice in a tin with some tuna. 😊
Bill Hader has bombarded my fyp. Bill lets be gay for awhile 😮🎉hahah
manatees!!!
Somebody needs a haircut 😮😮😮😮
We've all got a fish story to tell.
Now I'm inspired to listen to Jimmy Buffett's *_Jolly Mon Sing_* 🫶
There is a tale that the island people tell
Don't care if it is true 'cause I love it so well
Jolly Mon sing for his supper every night
The people fed him well 'cause he treated them so right
Oh-oh-oh, Jolly Mon sing
Oh-oh-oh, make Orion ring
And they wanted him to sing on the island near and far
He always found his way by Orion, lucky star
He'd tell them of their joys, he'd tell them of their woes
They loved to see him come, they'd hate to see him go
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the music ring
He was makin' his way home on a dark and stormy night
When he heard a cry for help, he saw a flashin' light
When he reached the other boat and offered them a hand
They said, "Give us all your cargo, " as they took a pirate stand
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), give 'em everything
"Jolly Mon, it's over, sing your last song very well"
They tossed him in the ocean 'cause their hearts were made in Hell
Came along a dolphin, he said, "Jolly Mon, hello"
"I've always loved your singing, climb aboard, don't let go"
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the oceans ring
The night was filled with magic, they bid the sea goodbye
They swam into the heavens, they stayed up in the sky
And all the island people when they wish upon a star
See the dolphin and the Jolly Mon who tell 'em where they are
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the heavens ring
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), Jolly Mon sing
Oh-oh-oh (Jolly Mon), make the magic ring
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh, Jolly Mon sing