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Justin Lane / EPA
By Andrew Mach and Vignesh Ramachandran, Staff Writers, NBC News
An injured dolphin that became stranded in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal died Friday, a marine foundation said.
The Riverhead Foundation confirmed to NBC News the dolphin passed away Friday evening. No other details about the mammal's death were immediately available. Read the full story.
Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters
A man reaches down to pat a dolphin as it struggles along a bulkhead in the headwaters of the Gowanus Canal as others look on.
Mike Segar / Reuters
A dolphin struggles to lift its head out of the water in the headwaters of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York.
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Certainly makes me proud to be a human :(
and happy not to live where you can'g go in the water. Oh yeah, there is the Jersey Shore. The rest of the world calls it a beach.
Useless NY aholes
just indescribably sad.
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so sad for a crowd to stand around and watch something die...reminds me of a poor person with no health insurance (including people on medicaid with no extra insurance or $) at hospital. People could do something
but wont.
When they said their strategy was to let the tide come in and see if that would help the animal free itself I thought that poor thing is going to die. Having the water slowly rise wasn't going to disturb whatever was holding it down, just cover it over and keep it from breathing air. It does seem like they could have got divers or a hoist or something.