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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club

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Swimming and boating on San Francisco Bay (and on other bodies of water) since 1877! Visit us online: dolphinclub.org

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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our rowers greeted the Mexican tall ship Cuauhtémoc today. You can tour the ship tomorrow and Friday while it's berthed at Piers 15/17. www.kqed.org/news/1210111...
The Mexican tall ship Cuauhtémoc, with the bow of a wooden rowboat in the foreground.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yesterday we celebrated 50 years of women's membership in the Dolphin and South End clubs! Gift link: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...
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Women mark 50 years of swimming against the tide at S.F. clubs that once banned them
The first women to join San Francisco’s swimming clubs in 1976 said they struggled against discrimination but found empowerment and community in the water.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 02/09/2026
A slow-moving wave driven by El Niño is creeping up the coast of North America and should hit California within weeks.
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El Niño-driven wave to raise California sea levels by a foot — in weeks
A slow-moving wave driven by El Niño is creeping up the coast of North America and should hit California within weeks.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Check out these digitized films of Dolphin Club swims in 1965-1966, discovered at a Sonoma County estate sale and shared by current club member David Buchanan. No women in the films because the club was all male until 1977! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFWS...
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Rare 1965–66 Dolphin Club Swim Footage | Vintage 8mm San Francisco Bay
YouTube video by Reeling in The Past
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The start of Saturday's Fort Point-to-Aquatic-Park swim. Photo by Morgan K.
Swimmers in the water just west of the Golden Gate Bridge's north tower
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Andrew Nusca @nusca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“…the single-highest sea levels on record are quite possible this winter in California. And that is going to be a problem.” www.latimes.com/california/s...
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As 3 dangers converge, California's coast faces rare winter of big waves, erosion, flooding
A rare convergence of a powerful El Niño, super king tides and sea level rise spurred by climate change could menace California with record coastal flooding this winter.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Are you following Catherine Breed's epic swim along the entire 900-mile coast of California? She started on July 1 and today her support boat was spotted in Aquatic Park Cove! Thanks to Phil Reiff for the photo. www.swimcalifornia.com
Swim California support boat in Aquatic Park Cove, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
No swimming in Aquatic Park Cove on Thursday, July 16, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.!
Cove will be CLOSED Thursday 8am to 6pm
Park workers are doing underwater survey of Aquatic Park
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We're seeing progress in our extensive, nearly yearlong renovation project! The kitchen and weight room finally have foundations and the elevator is ready for inspection.
Interior of Dolphin Club kitchen mid-renovationInterior of Dolphin Club kitchen mid-renovation
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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 24/06/2026
"They want to interact, and I think people feel that. It's pretty joyous."
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Massive pod of dolphins sighted cavorting off the California coast
"They want to interact, and I think people feel that. It's pretty joyous."
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 11/06/2026
Tides will be high starting Thursday night and lasting into Wednesday, a result of the warm water in the Pacific associated with El Niño.
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San Francisco to see highest-ever summer high tide, flooding this weekend
Tides will be high starting Thursday night and lasting into Wednesday, a result of the warm water in the Pacific associated with El Niño.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Watch Myah Griffin's short film about the Dolphin Club's wooden boats and boatbuilding/restoration program. The film is a finalist in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s 2026 National Multimedia Championship. projects.wkuvjp.com/1198232877
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Staying Afloat
A simple and spectacular business page
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"Where Dolphins stand on two feet." New "Comeback City" video -- a love letter to San Francisco -- features some of our stalwarts (at :32). www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLxC...
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Comeback City Ft. Stephen Curry, Larry June, Dominique Crenn, Joe Montana, Mayor Daniel Lurie & more
YouTube video by BelieveInSF
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Join @sfmaritime.bsky.social for Donut Day by the Bay, Sunday, June 14, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.! Donuts, coffee, music, and maritime stories! maritime.org/event/donuts/
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San Francisco Maritime National Park Association - Donut Day by the Bay
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SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
After an unusually long stay among his smaller California sea lion brethren on the floating docks by Pier 39, which ended up making national news, Chonkers the enormous Stellar sea lion seems to have taken his leave. buff.ly/xTNKmR7
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Chonkers the Stellar Sea Lion Appears to Have Left the Bay For Now
After an unusually long stay among his smaller California sea lion brethren on the floating docks by Pier 39, which ended up making national news, Chonkers the enormous Stellar sea lion seems to have…
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Robert Larson @sf-sailing.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I stopped by Pier 39 Marina this morning to bring some items to Wanderlust. When I was just about to open the gate I saw these "Dolphins" rowing in the early morning calm. I've got to get back to rowing. @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social @pier39marina.bsky.social
Two Dolphin Club rowers on the waters between the City scape and Alcatraz.Two Dolphin Club rowers on the waters between the City scape and Alcatraz.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Buy tickets now to the 23rd annual International Ocean Film Festival, April 10–12 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. First look April 2 at the Rafael in San Rafael! share.google/1Mii7vOkbhGJ...
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23rd Annual International Ocean Film Festival
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We celebrated a triple 90th birthday! Saltwater and camaraderie keep us healthy and happy.
Photos of three 90-year-old men posted outdoors at the Dolphin Club Large sheet cake with a message in cursive: Happy birthday Bob, Sid, and John!
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The start of this morning's swim from Pier 41 to Aquatic Park. Water temp ~54°F.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Construction progress report! Weight room and galley projects coming along nicely. Work began in August 2025.
Two construction workers look at the Dolphin Club weight room, which now has a couple of windows.New weight room and future deck, looking out over Aquatic Park Cove.Upper-floor construction.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Before this ordeal, Austin had found it “quite tiring” to swim 350 meters without a break.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Swimsuits? Yoga? Dancing? Europeans are baffled by U.S. sauna culture. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...
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The Europeans Have Some Notes About American Sauna Culture
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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 31/12/2025
Ghost of climate-future just rolled through the Bay — king tides + storm surge flooding streets the Chronicle says are a new normal as seas rise. Will we act before the next haunting? 🌊👻 #BayArea #KingTides #SeaLevelRise #ClimateFuture #CoastalFlooding #ActNow #OceanHoptimism
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California King Tides Project @kingtides.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The next #KingTides are Dec. 4 and 5, as well as Dec. 6 in southern California and some northern California locations. Help us document these highest tides of the year by safely photographing beaches, marshes, and flooded roads. Do it on your own or join a community event! coastal.ca.gov/kingtides
A woman jogs along a sharply eroded beach very close to a line of homes during King Tides on November 16, 2024. Photo taken at 63rd Place at Alamitos Bay, Long Beach
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Weirdly fun, strangely doable: The 24-hour swim relay returns to Aquatic Park Cove January 30-February 1! Swimmer signups open tomorrow, December 2; registration capped at 75 swimmers. Create your own relay team or ask to join one! 24hrswimrelay.com
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Come swim... - 24-Hour Swim Relay
Not a race. Not a fundraiser. Just fun. Each team has a swimmer in the water for 24 hours from 9 a.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday during winter in San Francisco’s Aquatic Park. Make your own team or ask...
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 29/11/2025
San Francisco recorded its coldest fall day since 2019 as a temperature inversion kept the city chilly — and left the Sierra unusually warm.
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S.F. just had its coldest fall day in six years — here’s why it felt so chilly
San Francisco recorded its coldest fall day since 2019 as a temperature inversion kept the city chilly — and left the Sierra unusually warm.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Progress report: weight-room walls going up, water temp going down.
Walls going up on new weight room Recent water temperatures: 59°, 58°F
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Quite a few adventurous Dolphin Club members swim at China Beach!
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Renovation progress! The new foundation was poured yesterday. Someday a new weight room will rise on top of it!
Clubhouse exterior, showing new foundation under future weight room.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Congratulations to club member @sunnymckee.bsky.social, age group winner (75-79) at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii! It was a tough race, with temperatures approaching 90°F. tri-today.com/2025/10/iron...
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[Ironman World Championship Kona] These Are All the Age Group World Champions - Triathlon Today
Triathlon Today: Your News, Our Passion. Fastest and most accurate independent news outlet for triathlon news, duathlon news and multisport news, offering a great mix of race reports of triathlon even...
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
What does it take to plan and execute a 25-mile bay swim? @piahinckle.bsky.social reports on her experience supporting club member Crissa Williams's recent feat. open.substack.com/pub/piahinck...
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How to Feed A Marathon Swimmer
Staying up all night to support a friend’s 25-mile swim in San Francisco Bay
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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 14/09/2025
How do you take a shipwreck and turn it into a vessel for change? Sherry Flumerfelt knows. As executive director of the Western Flyer Foundation, she’s making history a living tool for ocean education and care. Meet her Sept 25 and be a part of that history. #OceanHoptimism #WesternFlyer
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Festival of the Sea this Saturday, September 13! Check out all the free activities at Aquatic Park, including a parade of our club's boats from 3 to 5 p.m.! maritime.org/seafestival2... @sfmaritime.bsky.social
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San Francisco Maritime National Park Association - seafestival2025
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
He crossed the Catalina Channel in a kayak made from mushrooms (“AquaFung”). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The man and the mushroom kayak: can a boat made from mycellim change the future/
Sam Shoemaker’s record-setting voyage shows the promise – and limits – of fungi as a plastic alternative
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, in partnership with the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, will host a 24-hour Moby Dick reading marathon in the Maritime Museum." Noon 10/18 to noon 10/19. Sign up to read a chapter here: maritime.org/md2025/ @sfmaritime.bsky.social
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San Francisco Maritime National Park Association - Moby Dick 2025
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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 03/09/2025
“When you think about how many people are in the water in [SoCal] on a daily basis… and there are dozens of cases every day, when a white #shark is swimming underneath the surfer, yet still, bites are really rare… They don’t see humans as food.“ -Dr. Chris Lowe, CSULB’s Shark Lab #OceanHoptimism
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Gargantuan Great White Spotted at Famed CA Surf Spot (Video)
A very large great white shark was seen swimming beneath the Malibu pier, just a few hundred feet, from the crowded lineup.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
A sad occasion but a beautiful ceremony. Niko had been a Dolphin Club member for 2-1/2 years.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Our hearts are broken by the news of this tragic loss. Our condolences to family and friends of club member Nikolas Tomasevic, and our gratitude to SFFD, USCG, SFPD Marine Unit, and California Recovery Divers, who worked tirelessly for four days on recovery. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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Swimmer who died in S.F.’s Aquatic Park was an avid athlete, member of Dolphin Club
Nikolas Tomasevic, 35, never returned from a swim near the Aquatic Park. His body was recovered Tuesday morning.
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San Francisco Baykeeper @sfbaykeeper.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Meet the "peeps" -- a guide to our Bay shorebirds from the @alamedapost.com alamedapost.com/features/nat...
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Peeps of Alameda - Alameda Post
Fall migration is in full swing, and our beaches are already supporting migrants. Here's how to tell your sandpipers from your dunlins.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Free event this Thursday, August 28! @sfbaykeeper.bsky.social
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
"Rowing on the Bay," presented by Bob Barde (South End Rowing Club) and Diane Walton (Dolphin Club). September 9, 6 p.m., at the SF Historical Society, 608 Commercial Street, S.F. Free; register here: givebutter.com/RowingontheBay
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Where'd the weight room go? 😉 #renovation
Overhead view, looking west, of weight room mid-demolitionDeck view of renovation in progress
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Our major clubhouse-renovation project--seven years in the planning, funding, and permitting--began today! Affected: weight room, boathouse, galley, elevator, electrical. Not affected: locker rooms, showers, saunas.
Overhead view of Dolphin Club deckWorker in Dolphin Club boathouse, with wooden boat in foregroundWorker on ladder in Dolphin Club weight room
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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 11/08/2025
Once abundant in California waters, the sunflower sea star was nearly wiped out by sea star wasting disease. The cause wasn't clear at first, but one culprit has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida. This finding may help scientists understand and control this disease.
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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I'll be 55 on Saturday. It's literally my job to explore San Francisco and pass on my finds to others. And up until last month, I had never visited one of the two most renown landmarks in the city. I finally checked out Alcatraz. Was it worth the wait? www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
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It took me 55 years to visit Alcatraz. Here’s what I learned when I finally went
President Donald Trump’s idea to reopen Alcatraz prison is ridiculous for many reasons, but high among them: It’s a tremendously successful tourist destination, Peter Hartlaub writes.
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Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 06/08/2025
Twenty-four whales have died in the Bay this year, many from ship strikes. Environmental groups are preparing to sue federal agencies to protect them.
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Whale deaths in San Francisco Bay spur legal threat
Twenty-four whales have died in the Bay this year, many from ship strikes. Environmental groups are preparing to sue federal agencies to protect them.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Congratulations to club member Catherine Breed on her record-setting 60-mile swim around the circumference of Lake Tahoe! www.sfgate.com/renotahoe/ar...
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Bay Area swimmer quietly sets a new first for Lake Tahoe
An epic 60-mile swim in Tahoe was training for a much, much bigger goal.
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Coming August 22 to KQED TV: "A Balcony on the World," a documentary about our Aquatic Park neighbor the Bathhouse Building (now home to the San Francisco Maritime Museum), a shimmering jewel of WPA-era Streamline Moderne design. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvgi...
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"A Balcony on the World” Film
YouTube video by davidperryassociates
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Dolphin Swimming and Boating Club @dolphinclubsf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Happy World Whale and Dolphin Day! www.ecocalendar.eu/DolphinDay
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July 23rd - World Whale and Dolphin Day - ECOcalendar
Commercial fishing has reached such a level in the past that there is a real threat of extinction of several species of marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins. For the first time, restrictive quo...
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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 23/07/2025
We’re so proud to announce our August speaker at Ocean Hoptimism: ✨ Sejal Choksi-Chugh ✨ Executive Director of @sfbaykeeper.bsky.social and one of the fiercest defenders of the Bay you’ll ever meet. Her talk? “Making Sure Every Day’s a Good Day for the Bay” 📅 August 28, 7-8pm #OceanHoptimism #SFBay
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