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| Keywords: US Navy 050917-N-0793G-018 An Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin displaced when hurricane Katrina is carefully placed in a temporary saltwater pool facility at the Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport.jpg en Gulfport Miss Sept 17 2005 - Kelly an Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin displaced when hurricane Katrina destroyed her home at the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport Miss is carefully placed in a temporary saltwater pool facility at the Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport The aboveground pool along with other necessary filtration equipment needed to care for sea mammals was provided by U S Navy Marine Mammal Program personnel from San Diego Calif Kelly has spent the last two and a half weeks in the Gulf of Mexico with seven other dolphins swept out to sea by a wave reported to be forty feet high during Hurricane Katrina Because these dolphins are from a captive facility they do not forage for food or necessarily have the survival skills needed to avoid predators or boat traffic Since they were spotted off the gulf coast on Saturday Sept 10 Marine Life Aquarium trainers and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration NOAA Fisheries Service biologists have been feeding the dolphins several times a day from a NOAA vessel U S Navy photo by Journalist 3rd Class Chris Gethings RELEASED 2005-09-17 050917-N-0793G-018 Navy http //www navy mil/view_image asp id 28286 U S Navy photo by Journalist 3rd Class Chris Gethings PD-USGov-Military-Navy Tursiops truncatus captive Marine Life Oceanarium Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport United States Navy Marine Mammal Program Mammals of Mississippi | ||||
