Oil-Soaked Dolphin Gets Rescued From Gulf But Does Not Survive Trip To Rescue Facility

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by Colby Hall | 2:02 pm, June 29th, 2010

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In the event that you needed even more visual evidence of the catastrophic environmental impact of the BP oil disaster there is this video which shows an individual pulling an oil covered dolphin from a Pensacola beach. Alas, the dolphin did not survive its rescue, dying on its way to a local rescue facility in Panama City.

Writing for the Pensacola News Journal, Kaycee Lagarde and Bill Vilona report:

Christy Travis first saw oil splotched along the beach as she approached the surf at Fort Pickens. Then she turned and saw a bottlenose dolphin in distress.

“It was heartbreaking. Everyone was crying,’’ said Travis, 41, who was visiting with her family from Arkansas when they discovered the dolphin and joined with others in attempt to save it.

“We had oil all over us,’’ Travis said.

The dolphin did not survive. It died while enroute to Gulf World Marine Park, a rescue facility in Panama City.

A necropsy will be performed to determine exact cause of death, according to Courtnee Ferguson of the BP Unified Command Joint Information Center in Mobile.

The following audio-less video was apparently shot by a local tourist who documented the rescue attempt (made by another tourist.) (H/T Breitbart.tv)

BP Oil Disaster, Oil-Soaked Dolphin, Panama City, Pensacola

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If this little dolphin died as a result of the oil spill it is just one of BP’s many animal victims. Unfortunately, we will never know how many animals were destroyed by this oil spill because many of them have gone someplace to suffer and die alone or have sunk to the bottom of the ocean and will never be accounted for.

According to the IBRRC: Latest Gulf bird #s: 815 captured alive, 1128 collected dead, 177 released in Gulf catastrophe.

More photos of BP’s victims here:
http://www.examiner.com/ExaminerSlideshow.html?entryid=1398120&slide=2
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That does suck that the oil spill is doing that to the birds and other wild life animals. what really sucks is during a hurricane our gas prices go through the roof and when we have an oil spill the price of gas goes down go figure.
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