A group of sailors off the Californian coast were left amused after they passed a sunfish that appeared to wave at them.

Filmed on July 25, the clip shows the common mola stick one of its fins out of the water and flap it around as the boat passes by.

One of the sailors can be seen waving back at the fish.

in summer of 2022 a group of fishermen between san diego and catalina in the pacific ocean wave to a mola mola or ocean sunfish as it passed down the starboard side of the boat. The mola mola appears to be waving back to them.


Sailors wave to Ocean Sunfish, Mola Mola swimming past the boat waving with its fin as fishermen are waving back. pacific ocean, san diego catalina island fish in the ocean fishing boat shark week