Subject: Battle to save beached dolphin (fwd)
Michael Williamson (pita@whale.simmons.edu)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:33:56 -0500 (EST)
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J. Michael Williamson
Principal Investigator-WhaleNet <http://whale.wheelock.edu>
Associate Professor-Science
Wheelock College, 200 The Riverway, Boston, MA 02215
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 12:35:00 GMT
From: r.mallon1@genie.com
To: marmam@uvvm.uvic.ca, pita@whale.simmons.edu
Subject: Battle to save beached dolphin
Battle to save beached dolphin
Rescuers were today trying to save the life of an oil-covered dolphin washed
ashore on the south coast.
Experts from the RSPCA and the Sealife Centre at Hayling Island, near
Portsmouth, wrapped the mammal in a blanket and poured buckets of water over it
to keep its skin wet.
They were hoping it could be saved by specialist treatment by a vet.
A passer-by spotted the dolphin in shallow water close to the Inn On The
Beach
pub at 10.30am. It had a badly cut left eye and cuts to its tail fin and back,
probably caused by shingle as it was washed ashore.
A clean-up operation was mounted after lumps of oil were found on a
half-mile
stretch of coastline at Hayling Island.