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OneGrassRoot

(22,920 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2013, 08:30 PM Mar 2013

Baby Dolphin Saved in Ireland

Yay

Local woman Breda McCarthy was out walking her dog on Fenit Island when she came upon the stranded dolphin. It was lying in a small channel quite a few metres from the sea.

It apparently swam in at high tide a few hours earlier but got cut off when the tide retreated, and was clearly in distress.

Directed by Valentia Coastguard, Fenit RNLI Lifeboat operations manager Ger O'Donnell got in touch with a dolphin expert.

"After discussing the situation with the expert it was decided that the best course of action for providing a safe outcome would be to transport the dolphin down to the harbour and then transport it by RNLI lifeboat out to sea to be released," a spoksewoman for Fenit lifeboat said.

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/stranded-baby-bottlenose-dolphin-rescued-from-remote-kerry-beach-1.1340628

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