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Fortune the dolphin is too scared to leave Beaucette Marina

FORTUNE the dolphin is too scared to take to the open seas, according to the GSPCA, as the cetacean spent a fifth night circling Beaucette Marina.

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The mammal – it is not known whether it is male or female – is getting healthier, manager Steve Byrne confirmed, but needs to build up confidence before it leaves.

'Dolphins aren't good with rough weather and the waves are breaking around the entrance to the marina, but we believe it will make its way out. But it does not know what is on the other side – it does not know it is open ocean.'

The dolphin was rescued by concerned members of the public from the swell on Pembroke Bay during the height of the storms last week. It took a four-hour operation to move it safely from the bay to the marina.

'We had a team of volunteers down at the bay and we needed to get it back into the water, but the weather was too dangerous for us to take it out to a release point half a mile out to sea.

'Beaucette Marina is a nice, deep bay and it was calm enough in there. To have released it into the open ocean would have been too dangerous.'

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