Lone Wild Dolphin Under Forth Bridge in Scotland

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:17]No way.

[00:00:21]Oh my god. Oh.

[00:00:26]He's back. Now that is special.

[00:00:38]2025.

[00:00:42]Where are you, Derek?

[00:00:50]Wow. I've not seen him in like a month.

[00:00:59]Get down and say hi.

[00:01:14]Hey. Wow, he looks bigger.

[00:01:20]There he is.

[00:01:25]So, this is Boxing Day 2025, and I was hoping to get out just to see him again, but for the last time in 2025. So, that's pretty cool. Oh, he's right there. He's obviously still not scared at all.

[00:01:50]This is him again.

[00:01:53]The water's a bit mucky today, so you can't really see him.

[00:02:00]He just gets a bit close sometimes when you're not expecting it.

[00:02:07]So, there you go. Boxing day 2025.

[00:02:14]I can hear him talking as well. You hear him squeaking. We'll go totally silent.

[00:02:30]You're crazy, man.

[00:02:35]How you doing?

[00:02:37]How you good?

[00:02:52]You don't know where he's going to come up next.

[00:03:11]Hello.

[00:03:14]There you go.

[00:03:19]Right, let's go for a play. Our last play of 2025.

[00:03:32]There he is.

[00:03:37]I think he likes to race you. You know, he gets a bit bored just sitting in the water. Cool.

[00:03:59]Get a bit of speed on from him. He's like, "Hurry up." And then you go silent.

[00:04:21]Woo!

[00:04:22]Honey, he loves it. He just loves it.

[00:04:33]I'll try and stand up.

[00:04:38]He likes a bit of twist and turns.

[00:05:06]Let's see if he comes now.

[00:05:12]He's probably thinking, "Where are you?"

[00:05:15]Cuz we're not making any noise.

[00:05:20]See if we can see him. Oh, there he is.

[00:05:23]He's found us already. We're literally playing hide and seek with a dolphin.

[00:05:29]I did not think I'd be doing that on Boxing Day.

[00:05:34]Look, he knows exactly where to go.

[00:05:38]I'm not making any noise with the remote.

[00:05:42]So, he just knows them. He just knows there.

[00:05:48]He's coming under.

[00:05:50]>> He's coming under.

[00:05:54]He's hilarious.

[00:06:00]Yeah.

[00:06:02]Do you know what? I've never seen him actually underneath the pillars of the bridge. So, there's a first. What a cracker.

[00:06:12]Going this way.

[00:06:17]Hear him. Hear him.

[00:06:23]Wow.

[00:06:36]Get up.

[00:06:38]He's chatting away.

[00:06:44]He was on you.

[00:07:00][ __ ] >> You won't believe that. I've just hit the bottom.

[00:07:08]Oh, so that's why. Wow, that's so smart.

[00:07:12]So, I've never hit the bottom here ever.

[00:07:15]And I just hit it there, I think. And he knows that. And he's not came through and followed me, which I was thinking was strange cuz he would just follow you anywhere.

[00:07:25]But that's why because it's too shallow for him. So, I'll get out here. But he obviously knows what to do here.

[00:07:32]Amazing.

[00:07:36]Wow. I can't believe that he knows the water better than me, obviously.

[00:07:43]So, I don't know where he is now. Oh, there he is. He's waiting for me at the exit because that's obviously the only deep spot you can go to. And it's funny, he was getting excited there and talking cuz he's obviously thinking, "Stop.

[00:07:59]You're going to beat yourself." Look, there he is there.

[00:08:02]Unbelievable.

[00:08:04]Or I'm just reading too much into it, but it kind of makes sense.

[00:08:10]He's talking again.

[00:08:27]Yeah. Look, he's right there. See his spin?

[00:08:33]Wow.

[00:08:35]Amazing. Honestly, I'll wait until he surfaces and I'll move so he knows kind of where I am. You can see the tide's pulling us back now. Tide's going out.

[00:08:43]So, we're heading back out that way.

[00:08:46]Where is he?

[00:08:52]Unbelievable.

[00:09:01]Where are you?

[00:09:14]Oh, there he is.

[00:09:16]Wow, he's getting uh pretty confident now. Like hello.

[00:09:26]>> You can hear him talking all the time.

[00:09:29]>> Wow.

[00:09:39]Oh, did you see that? Her sple just hit me. Oh, look at him.

[00:09:47]Look at him. See him right there?

[00:09:49]You can hear him.

[00:09:53]So special.

[00:09:55]>> And I can't believe he's back again.

[00:10:01]Wa.

[00:10:05]That will do it.

[00:10:14]And there is in between my legs.

[00:10:20]Hello, son.

[00:10:23]Hello, son.

[00:10:30]Hello.

[00:10:32]He's literally within 10 cm of my feet.

[00:10:43]Hello.

[00:10:45]You hear him speaking again?

[00:10:50]Unbelievable.

[00:10:52]Now, this is the same dolphin I met in 2024.

[00:10:56]So, it's been quite a while.

[00:11:02]Just amazing.

[00:11:05]He's just ducking and diving under my feet.

[00:11:10]Look at him. You see him?

[00:11:17]Usually if there's a fin following you from behind, you should panic.

[00:11:23]But not from Look at this.

[00:11:27]You can see a train coming across here.

[00:11:29]See it coming to the left. I don't know if it'll affect him, the noise of it.

[00:11:37]There we go. So, he's moved further away now. There's your train. Listen to that.

[00:12:01]What are you doing? Yeah, it doesn't seem to bother him to be honest.

[00:12:10]He's in between my legs.

[00:12:19]Brilliant character. I can't believe he was that smart not to go through the other side.

[00:12:28]Hey, so selfie Derek, come on. Come up for a selfie, will you?

[00:12:44]Oh, you're coming up this side. His His spray is hitting me.

[00:12:58]There he is.

[00:13:01]I think he just said Merry Christmas.

[00:13:10]So, he likes to kind of just go ahead front.

[00:13:13]Gets pretty excited.

[00:13:18]Oh, I think that's the selfie there.

[00:13:31]Jeez.

[00:13:36]Oh, there he is there.

[00:13:39]Hello, Derek.

[00:13:43]He's still sitting out there. Tell you when I see him there. See him just in front of the bridge. What a cracker.

[00:13:53]Always grateful for that.

[00:14:03]>> Did you see all >> honestly for the last half an hour? Merry Christmas.

[00:14:11]>> Merry Christmas. Well, >> are you >> seen loads of posts? You've been everywhere.

[00:14:17]>> Walking about >> I feel bad like you leave and it's like >> cuz unbelievable. You see that? I was taking video of it.

[00:14:25]>> Yeah.

[00:14:25]>> And uh we went underneath the bridges and we were just chilling under there.

[00:14:30]>> So I came out this way and he never followed me and I was like, "Oh, that's strange." And then all of a sudden the wing hit the bottom, >> right?

[00:14:37]>> So he knows that that side's shallower, >> right, >> than the middle, >> right?

[00:14:41]>> And then he's just he's just hanging out for me in the middle. And then as soon as I come back around cuz I couldn't get around that way cuz it was too shallow.

[00:14:48]>> I come back from the middle and he's like, "All right, mate. Told you so."

[00:14:54]>> I seen the one where you had a post, you nearly hit a lobster >> [ __ ] Exactly.

[00:15:03]>> That could have sent you >> big time. Yeah, that's pretty >> big time, man.

[00:15:11]you feel bad and it's like what does he feed on cuz winter in Scotland there's no mackerel of that or maybe I don't know oh there is there must be some bass or something >> must be >> I've seen a couple of guys doing fishing at the end of that bit there >> so funny man I just thought I was dropping my sister off this morning at the airport >> and I was like I'll just go for a we blast bang seen them >> every time that's every time I've been out. I've seen them.

[00:15:42]>> Yeah. I seen there was a seal down there last month.

[00:15:45]>> Yeah.

[00:15:47]>> Just a we seal pup.

[00:15:48]>> Just a we seal pup.

[00:15:49]>> Hi.

[00:15:50]>> Um and then you were you were on your way down and then you were out there.

[00:15:55]>> Yeah.

[00:15:57]>> Yeah.

[00:15:57]>> And the dolphin came.

[00:15:59]>> That was him again.

[00:16:01]>> Yeah. I mean, do you know what? We might never experience anything like that in our lifetimes again.

[00:16:05]>> No, >> cuz it's unheard of.

[00:16:07]>> Exactly.

[00:16:08]>> Yeah. I just love the memory of it. Oh, definitely.

[00:16:11]>> I look back in 20 years being like, >> "Yeah, >> cuz I think there was one in Ireland that used to be there. It was like a local."

[00:16:18]>> Uhhuh.

[00:16:19]>> But it just disappeared one day.

[00:16:20]Obviously, it was there for like 10 years.

[00:16:23]>> Wow.

[00:16:23]>> So, I'm hoping he's the same.

[00:16:26]>> Yeah. He seems young.

[00:16:28]>> Ah, yeah.

[00:16:28]>> He seems like >> Well, 2024, he was a pup cuz I remember seeing him. That was the first time I seen him when he was tiny.

[00:16:34]>> And now he's like a whale.

[00:16:36]>> Wow.

[00:16:37]>> He's put on the beef. Yeah.

[00:16:40]>> Is that porpus following you?

[00:16:42]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:16:44]>> Yeah.

[00:16:44]>> Good.

[00:16:45]>> He's a local.

[00:16:48]>> Every time I go out, he's there.

[00:16:52]>> Great to see.

[00:16:53]>> Need to bring him some fish next time.

[00:17:00]>> Well, Christmas.

[00:17:01]>> Hi. Good day. Can't believe it's boxing day. You're working.

[00:17:05]>> Yeah. Double t.

[00:17:06]>> Yeah.

[00:17:09]We'll take a bit of that. All right.