Sea rescuers aid beached dolphin
Sea rescuers aided a beached dolphin at Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday morning.Rieghard Janse van Rensburg‚ the National Sea Rescue Institute’s station commander at Jeffreys Bay‚ said the NSRI had been contacted by Greg Hofmeyer‚ from Bay World and the SA Stranding Network (SASN)‚ regarding a 2.5 metre dolphin beached at the Botha Street Beach slipway at Paradise Beach.‚“The dolphin was secured into a carrying canvass and moved 100 metres down the beach by local community members and members of SASN to where our sea rescue craft could safely beach and the dolphin was loaded onto the sea rescue craft and transported to approximately 1 nautical mile out to sea and released.“The dolphin swam away strongly and we are cautiously optimistic that the dolphin has survived‚” Janse van Rensburg said...
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