We had a bittersweet encounter with a humpback whale on both our morning and afternoon trips today as its tail fluke was entangled in fishing gear. Both NOAA and Seaworld Rescue had been notified and hopefully it can be disentangled. This afternoon we watched it...

We enjoyed a wonderful trip this afternoon! Before we even left Mission Bay we spotted two Inshore Bottlenose dolphins! Out in deeper water, we encountered close to ~120 Offshore bottlenose dolphins! They were socializing with each other and zooming up to the boat....

We had a beautiful day on the ocean today with flat calm conditions and a large pod of over 100 offshore bottlenose dolphins! -Ryan

A special day on the water with killer whales that we went 14 miles offshore to catch up to. A rare sighting for us here in San Diego, the last time we saw orcas was 3 years ago. We spent so long reaching them that we only got about 2 breath cycles with these gentle...

This evening we headed out along our coast and out toward deeper water. We were lucky enough to see a big splash and then following that a few spouts in the distance. We finally made it out and got to hang out with a group of 4 humpbacks that were moving South. We...

We had a fun time on the water with big swell. Gorgeous visibility and plenty of birds cruisin' the drop-off. We found a nice couple pods of Short-beaked Common dolphins. In total there were about 200 individuals porpoising and breaching all around us. We spotted a...

We had a great day on the water with lots of life! This afternoon we set out west and about 11 miles out found a known humpback whale named "Top Gun". This whale is missing this sides of its tail flukes and has lots of scarring from a killer whale encounter at some...

#SundayFunday aboard the Privateer! During the morning trip, we went south and found a a trio of Humpback whales migrating south! There was a pair traveling together and a single separated by only 100 yards. We loved watching them come up for breaths and seeing their...

It was an active day off our coast today! We started off our day with a humpback whale and our afternoon got even busier with 4 other humpbacks who were breaching out of the water multiple times and tail slapping. We also came across ~100 short beaked common dolphins,...

We had amazing visibility, great sea conditions and fun times on the Privateer! We encountered a big pod of ~100 Long-beaked Common dolphins. They were zooming to the north only 3-miles from shore! We saw plenty of cow/calf pairs and lots of acrobatic behaviors!...

We had a nice pod of at least 100 feeding long-beaked common dolphins today along with thousands of feeding birds and a brief glimpse of a minke whale that just didn't want to be seen...   -Ryan

We had two great trips today! The conditions this morning were beautiful! We enjoyed glassy waters and great visibility! We found a fun pod of ~100 Long-beaked Common dolphins traveling north. A Minke whale was sighted near them! We continued to the north and...