Stranded Dolphins

• Local fire chief uses excavator to free dolphins trapped by ice in Newfoundland

  Heavy ice off Heart's Delight had cut off the exit route for the white-beaked dolphins, leaving them stranded in the shrinking pool of open water.

  Canada

  Mar 22, 2018
  
• Rescue workers search N.S. bay for dolphin pod after three wash up dead

  Marine rescue workers are looking for a pod of dolphins that may be trapped in a small Nova Scotia harbour after three of the mammals washed up dead on shore.

  Environment

  Nov 21, 2016
  
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• Rescuers use pingers in bid to free ‘unco-operative’ dolphin pod in N.B.

  Rescuers were using sound devices in a bid to encourage a pod of stranded dolphins to leave shallow waters in northern New Brunswick.

  Canada

  Oct 6, 2016
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• Crews fail again to save six stranded dolphins in New Brunswick

  To escape, the dolphins would have to swim through an area that's only about a metre deep at high tide, and dolphins don't like shallow water.

  Environment

  Oct 5, 2016
• N.B. rescue crews to try to herd stranded dolphins to open ocean Wednesday

  It has been almost a week since seven dolphins became stranded near Lameque, with one dying two days later.

  Environment

  Oct 4, 2016
• Officials hope to herd stranded dolphins in New Brunswick back into open ocean

  Seven dolphins became stranded near Lameque, New Brunswick last Wednesday, but one died two days later.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2016