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Dolphin rescue hailed a success
despite one death
3/23/1999 Adelaide - The Associated Press Despite the death of
one dolphin, rescuers on Monday hailed as a
success a nine-hour operation to return 47 dolphins stranded on a
Kangaroo Island beach to the sea. The 48 bottle-nosed dolphins were
found stranded on the beach at Nepean Bay, on the northern side of
Kangaroo Island off the South Australian coast, at sunrise on Monday.
Under a rescue effort coordinated by the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Country Fire Service, about 80 volunteers kept the dolphins wet and under shade with the aim of floating them back to sea at high tide about 6 p.m. Veterinary experts ensured the animals did not become distressed throughout the ordeal. But when a large male dolphin died late Monday morning and another male dolphin became critically ill, the park service decided to return the animals to deeper water as soon as possible. Volunteers used a front-end loader and slings to carry the dolphins 1,000 feet (300 meters) across sand to shallow water, before they were guided out to sea by fishing boats dragging nets to keep them from returning to the beach. Park and wildlife service director Allan Holmes said the pod reformed and swam into deeper water by mid-afternoon, where the sickest dolphins appeared to recover quickly. He said the dead dolphin might have been the cause of the stranding, with a theory that it was ill and moved to shallow water to help it breathe, then called for assistance from the others when it became beached. www.hurriyetdailynews.com/dolphin-rescue-hailed-a-success-despite-one-death.aspx?pageID=438&n=dolphin-rescue-hailed-a-success- despite-one-death-1999-03-23 |
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Beached dolphins return to sea
A dying
dolphin is believed to have led 44 others on to a southern
Australian shore, forcing rescuers to push the beached animals back
into the sea.
Rescue co-ordinator Keith Twyford said one dolphin had died but more than 100 rescue officials and volunteers were involved in the all-day rescue of the others, pouring buckets of water over them and covering them in wet hessian to keep them comfortable and calm before they were herded back into deeper waters off Kangaroo Island, south of Adelaide. 'They progressively moved out of people's hands into deeper water and swam off in a pod,' Mr Twyford said. The oceanic common dolphins, which generally live in deeper waters off Australia and in other temperate climes, were found stranded early yesterday on a sandbank in a Kangaroo Island bay... www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/23/7.txt |
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bottlenose dolphins were found beached at sunrise, March
22nd, at Nepean Bay, at Kangaroo Island off the South Australian coast.
In a nine-hour rescue attempt one died but the others were returned to
the water. 80 volunteers, officials and vets stabilized the dolphins,
and used a front-end loader and slings to carry the dolphins 1,000 feet
across sand to shallow water, before they were guided out to sea by
fishing boats dragging nets to keep them from returning to the beach.
The dolphins reformed and swam into deeper water by mid-afternoon, and
all seemed to have recovered. The adult male dolphin who died may have
been the "key", perhaps sick or weak, moving to shallow water to
breathe, and perhaps drawing in others. http://csiwhalesalive.org/csi99208.html |
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After having spent
the morning in a workshop ... KIDW volunteers and DEWNR
staff were "called out" to a "stranding" at Western
Cove... On site people were put through a thorough training of care, transportation and release methods carefully designed to provide whales and dolphins with the best chance of survival... www.theislanderonline.com.au/story/3218598/dolphin-stranding-training/.txt |