Dolphin strays into Baltic, rescue under way - TV
Date: 06-Nov-01
Country: SWEDEN
The dolphin is apparently in good health, Greenpeace spokeswoman Erika Augustinsson said. But with winter approaching the water temperature, currently around 10-11 degrees Celsius, will soon get dangerously cold for the sea mammal.
The dolphin was first sighted last week by a fisherman who alerted Greenpeace. This is only the fourth time a dolphin has been spotted in the Baltic Sea.
Greenpeace activists, who have been monitoring the dolphin from a motorboat, plan to try to steer it back into the Atlantic Ocean through the Oresund strait between Sweden and Denmark.
"Yesterday it stayed with us throughout the afternoon and played around the boat," Augustinsson said, adding that dolphins tended to live in groups and that this lost specimen probably longed for companionship.
SVT2 news showed footage of a black-and-white dolphin swimming near a small dinghy.
"We hope that it will become so familiar with us that it will recognise us and decide to follow our vessel and then we'll take it to Oresund and further out into the Atlantic where it belongs," Augustinsson said.