Dramatic Rescue of Drowning Juvenile Bottlenose Dolphin by Fury Water Adventures Captain and Crew
KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- It was anything but just another day in paradise for the crew and guests aboard a Fury Water Adventures sailing catamaran. Captain Ryan Fredrick, a veteran captain with Fury for nine years, spotted two wild bottlenose dolphins about 1000 feet from the boat. Fredrick thought it might be a great experience for guests to observe them in their natural habitat. Slowly steering the boat a little closer, it became obvious that the dolphins were not playing—that in fact a juvenile dolphin was tangled in a lobster trap line and struggling to make it to the surface. An adult dolphin, presumably the mother, was frantically pushing her baby up to try and keep it afloat.
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