{"id":409425,"date":"2026-01-14T20:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409425\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:59:07","slug":"dolphins-and-young-rescued-after-stranding-on-orkney-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/409425\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins and young rescued after stranding on Orkney beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two dolphins have died after being stranded on a beach in Orkney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Six common dolphins including two calves became stranded in the Bay of Tuquoy off Westray on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The mammals were found up to 800m (almost half a mile) apart, which made rescue efforts physically demanding and meant rescuers had to communicate by mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) medics were able to successfully re-float all of the mammals, however they confirmed that two later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Several agencies were involved in the rescue including a local charter boat operator Northerly Marine and Westray Coastguard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">All of the mammals were assessed by vets and deemed healthy to be re-floated using specialist slings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The BDMLR said the reason for the stranding was not immediately apparent but it was most likely that the group stranded on the previous high tide, potentially due to a navigational error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The organisation said all dolphins were seen swimming successfully after being re-float, but three stayed close to the shore which was a concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two dolphins have died after being stranded on a beach in Orkney. Six common dolphins including two calves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-409425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}