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Seal.Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 4, 2014 9:12 PM UTC Two guys were out surfing off the coast of northern England when a seal pup decided to join in on the fun — so it hopped right up onto one of their boards, the BBC[ reports](http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-28638586). The seal played with the surfers for about an hour, and it appears to have made a valiant effort to learn how to surf despite some difficulty remaining balanced. “It kept sliding off,” one of the surfers, Matthew Stanley, told the BBC. “But every time you caught a wave it would surf in on the white water.” The whole thing was pretty presumptuous, actually, but luckily the seal was cute enough to pull it off. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3080117/baby-seal-surfing-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3080117/baby-seal-surfing-video/"},"headline":"Adorable Baby Seal Pops Out of Nowhere to Go Surfing","datePublished":"2014-08-04T21:12:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:10.216Z","description":"He has a lot of trouble with it, but eventually gets the hang of it -- sort of","url":"https://time.com/3080117/baby-seal-surfing-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","GoPro"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaccef4b97fa6395/69869e52810bbbabffc92dfe/166838036.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaccef4b97fa6395/69869e52810bbbabffc92dfe/166838036.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"166838036","caption":"166838036","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3080117/baby-seal-surfing-video/","name":"Adorable Baby Seal Pops Out of Nowhere to Go Surfing"}}]}] ```