WATCH: Two bottlenose dolphins rescued on Sandy Bay beach
Two stranded bottlenose dolphins have been rescued by the NSRI on Sandy Bay beach in the Western Cape.
The National Sea Rescue Institue (NSRI) says the rescue operating team consisted of the Cape of Good Hope SPCA’s wildlife division, the City of Cape Town’s Coastal Management, shark spotters and staff of Leeukop Estate.
"During initial assessments by authorities, it was deemed possible to transport the dolphins out to sea in the hopes of releasing them at sea or to swim the dolphins through the surf in the hopes to coral them out to sea,” says the NSRI’s Craig Lambinon.
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"The services on the scene carried the dolphins into the surf, using specialised stretchers, where the dolphins were floated. They were apart at that stage and the members that were on the scene, in a joint effort, brought the two dolphins together by carrying them to a suitable place in the shallow surf where they floated together."
The dolphins were then taken through the surf line, allowing them to swimming to deeper water.
"While we are cautiously optimistic that the rescue has been successful the coastline will continue to be monitored over the next few days but hopes remain that the dolphins will not beach again,” says Lambinon.
