--- title: Elephant Wades in Ocean Off Florida Coast: Viral Video description: Does not compute canonical: https://time.com/105224/elephant-wades-in-ocean-florida/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-19T19:52:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:47.802Z og:title: Watch an Elephant Wade in the Ocean in Florida og:description: Someone had apparently rented it for a birthday party og:url: https://time.com/105224/elephant-wades-in-ocean-florida/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch an Elephant Wade in the Ocean in Florida twitter:description: Someone had apparently rented it for a birthday party twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Well, Here's An Elephant Wading In the Ocean in Florida by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 19, 2014 7:52 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 19, 2014 7:52 PM UTC This weekend, some Florida beach-goers spotted an elephant wading in the water, just kind of standing there stoically as the waves rippled around him. Luckily, Todd Unbehagen, who was visiting North Redington Beach with his family, captured video of the bizarre sight. Apparently, the elephant was part of someone’s private beach party, the St. Petersburg _Tribune_ [reports](http://tbo.com/pinellas-county/video-elephant-takes-dip-in-pinellas-beach-20140519/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/105224/elephant-wades-in-ocean-florida/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/105224/elephant-wades-in-ocean-florida/"},"headline":"Well, Here's An Elephant Wading In the Ocean in Florida","datePublished":"2014-05-19T19:52:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:47.802Z","description":"Does not compute","url":"https://time.com/105224/elephant-wades-in-ocean-florida/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","Florida","Ocean","Elephant"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/105224/elephant-wades-in-ocean-florida/","name":"Well, Here's An Elephant Wading In the Ocean in Florida"}}]}] ```