Dolphins moved from hotel swimming pools to Panhandle marine park

[jobycom]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12526907.htm

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Six bottlenose dolphins evacuated to swimming pools at two Mississippi hotels when Hurricane Katrina threatened a marine park there have been moved to a similar facility in the Florida Panhandle.

The dolphins from Marine Life Park in Gulfport, Miss., were safely delivered Tuesday night to The Gulfarium here for temporary housing, rescuers said in a news release. Nine sea lions from the Mississippi park also initially were brought here, and then were sent to Sea World in Orlando.

Staffers from Gulf World Marine Park in Panama City and the Gulfarium brought the animals to Florida in two moving trucks.

Putting the dolphins in hotel pools is a routine procedure whenever hurricanes have threatened Marine Life Park, one of their keepers said. When the threat passes they are returned, but this time the park was too severely damaged to take them back.

[bklyncowgirl]

1. How about just dump them in the Gulf of Mexico

No one would have to take care of the beasts and they'd have a fighting chance.