{"id":3685,"date":"2012-01-30T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2012-01-31T03:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T08:26:02","slug":"diving-with-dolphins-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/diving-with-dolphins-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving with Pilot Whales (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just enjoyed a great weekend of diving with some friends and the crew from NYU. While we&#8217;ll soon be sharing our underwater adventures in the next post, we had an added bonus after the diving was done. On our way back to the port in Dibba, we met a few dozen new friends &#8211; pilot whales who were looking to play with our rather large dhow.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some video and photo highlights from this unexpected treat!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3685 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/diving-with-dolphins-sort-of\/dscf0457\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSCF0457-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3687\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3687'>\n\t\t\t\tThere were at least 50 of them!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/diving-with-dolphins-sort-of\/dscf0476\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSCF0476-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3688\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3688'>\n\t\t\t\t They were big guys (and gals)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/diving-with-dolphins-sort-of\/dscf0482\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSCF0482-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3689\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3689'>\n\t\t\t\tA group of divers in a smaller boat used a whistle to attract them closer&#8230;.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-4iTjrmCPoA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just enjoyed a great weekend of diving with some friends and the crew from NYU. While we&#8217;ll soon be sharing our underwater adventures in the next post, we had an added bonus after the diving was done. On our way back to the port in Dibba, we met a few dozen new friends &#8211;&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/diving-with-dolphins-sort-of\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[38,27],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture","category-video","tag-oman","tag-scuba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tuckers.cc\/brian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}