{"id":25777,"date":"2012-09-19T09:29:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T13:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=25777"},"modified":"2012-09-21T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T13:18:48","slug":"dancing-with-dolphins-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/dancing-with-dolphins-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Dancing With Dolphins In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25778\" title=\"doug-perrine-dolphins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25779\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25779\" title=\"doug-perrine-dolphins-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins-2-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/doug-perrine-dolphins-2-166x250.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos by Doug Perrine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A fascinating collection of underwater photographs has captured pro-swimmers playfully &#8216;dancing&#8217; with dolphins off the coast of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Doug Perrine snapped the athletes as they free-dived to depths of 30ft to interact with the adorable mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Holding their breath for up to four minutes, the swimmers came nose-to-nose with the energetic pod of spotted dolphins near Grand Bahama Island in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t all fun and games.<\/p>\n<p>The swimmers, who are champions on the competitive swimming circuit, were attempting to learn new techniques from their flippered friends that may improve their chances of winning gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating collection of underwater photographs shows pro-swimmers playfully &#8216;dancing&#8217; with dolphins off the coast of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[63,376,76],"class_list":["post-25777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-animals","tag-athletes","tag-environment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}