16-year-old surfs with dolphins

A Florida boy goes surfing with his friends - a group of teenagers and a pod of dolphins - and it was all caught on tape. NBC's Lilia Luciano reports.

>>> now to florida where a couple of teenagers set out to have some fun and out of the blue they got a surprise visit and it was all captured on video. nbc's lilliana luciano has the story.

>> reporter: they were surfing in florida. it's a mix of surfing and wakeboarding. marcos and his buddy mitchell overton say they're out on the water learning new tricks every weekend, but on new year's eve, an ordinary day of sufbing turned into an experience of a lifetime.

>> i see everyone looking to the other side of the wake and pointing to the other side and i look over the side of it and i can see this huge gray thing jump up and it scared me.

>> reporter: mitchell had been filming the encounter and when they switched places, more dolphins. they saw a total of five ride the waves.

>> once one would jump. for some reason they never got on my side of the wake. they let me do my things, they did theirs.

>> reporter: researchers say it's common for dolphins to swim alongside the wake of a boat. like marcos and mitchell , they just like to have fun. for