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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:22:46 -0800
From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Dolphins stranded on Florida beach
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Dozens of dolphins ground themselves on Panhandle beach
The Associated Press
CAPE SAN BLAS, Fla. (December 15, 1997 10:07 p.m. EST)
Rescuers struggled in cold, windy weather and rough seas to help keep
dozens of dolphins alive after the animals stranded themselves on a
Florida Panhandle beach.
About 30 roughtooth dolphins, a species not normally found in shallow
water, managed to swim back out into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, while
29 were trucked to a boat basin on Cape San Blas, a narrow, hook-shaped
peninsula that juts into the gulf about 75 miles southwest of
Tallahassee, said sheriff's Capt. Joe Nugent.
Of the approximately 60 dolphins, about a dozen are known to have died.
On Monday, seven dolphins were shipped to the Gulfarium, a marine
attraction near Fort Walton Beach, and authorities were hoping to send
four more each to similar facilities in Sarasota and St. Augustine. Up
to five remaining at the basin may have to be euthanized because no
other facilities are available, Nugent said.
Members of the public and even prison camp inmates waded into 62-degree
water Sunday to join in the rescue effort along with personnel from
government and rescue agencies.
"I've never seen a mass stranding in this area like this," said Ron
Hardy, co-owner of Gulf World, a marine attraction at Panama City Beach.
"When you have this many animals there's nothing you can do. You pick
out one or two or three and try to help them. It's very heartbreaking."
The most common cause of mass stranding of dolphins and whales is when a
pod's leader gets ill with a virus or bacteria, and beaches itself to
get a steady flow of oxygen, Hardy said. Still, that phenomenon usually
involves smaller groups of mammals, Nugent said.
Blood tests indicated no evidence of disease, but additional testing is
being done on the dolphins that died.
Timothy Burney, an inmate from a state forestry prison camp, was among
the volunteers who stood in the surf Sunday, trying to hold weakened
dolphins upright to keep their blowholes out of the water so they could
breathe.
"This is my first time seeing something like this, my first time
touching one," Burney said. "I just want to help them out and keep them
alive, which is a discouraging experience because they don't look too
