The Orange County Register is reporting that a dolphin leapt out of the ocean, into a boat, and onto a woman’s lower extremities, breaking her ankles. They’re smart, they’re much nastier than Madeleine L’Engle led you to believe, and they are absolutely coming for us.
According to the Register, Dirk and Chrissie Frickman were celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary and Father’s Day on June 21 by sailing around Dana Point Harbor with their teenage children. A pod of dolphins swam next to their boat. It was all as idyllic as a Lisa Frank backpack, until suddenly it was not.
A dolphin leaped out of the water, hit the rail of their boat and flopped right inside with the family.
At first, it might have resembled a wacky Sea World trick, or a fun Flipper moment.
But it got messy. Bloody, scary and messy.
“It hit my wife and knocked her over, and punched my daughter,” Dirk Frickman recalled.
Luckily, no one got knocked out of the boat, he said.
“I had this 350-pound dolphin in my boat,” Frickman said. “There was no way to get it off the boat.”
The Frickmans say the frantic dolphin flopped onto Christie’s legs, snapping her ankles. It thrashed around the boat, spraying blood in every direction from cuts on its nose and tail as they sped back towards the harbor.