{"id":775196,"date":"2026-09-18T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775196\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T23:22:09","slug":"dolphin-rescued-from-shallow-waters-near-falmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775196\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin rescued from shallow waters near Falmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I knew I didn’t have much time to help”<\/p>\n

19:02, 18 Sep 2026Updated 20:14, 18 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

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Connor rescuing the stranded dolphin(Image: Allhandsondeckandlife )<\/p>\n

A diver who spotted a dolphin trapped in about “a foot of water” jumped into action to rescue it in Cornwall.<\/p>\n

Connor Hunter was at Mylor Creek near Falmouth<\/a> on Wednesday (September 16) when he spotted a fin and splashing in the shallow stream where the tide was low.<\/p>\n

Quickly realising it was a dolphin, Connor ran in to try to help it.<\/p>\n

The commercial diver told CornwallLive he saw the dolphin’s fin and “half it’s back” out of the shallow water.<\/p>\n

“It was one of the most amazing experiences and I am so happy I could help the dolphin get out out trouble.<\/p>\n

“I checked it over before to see if it had any visible injuries, I’m no dolphin expert but knew it needed help”.<\/p>\n

Connor said the dolphin was obviously “panicked” in the stream but when he started to move it into deeper water “it calmed down”.<\/p>\n

He said: “It’s like it knew I was going to help and I was not a threat. I just wanted to get it to deeper water”.<\/p>\n

Connor managed to manoeuvre the dolphin into the deeper water where it was then able to swim off.<\/p>\n

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Connor said: “When I was able to get it into deeper water, I kept splashing to try and direct it so it wouldn’t swim back up to the shallow water”.<\/p>\n

Connor and his partner Autumn moved to Cornwall five months ago and began renovating a barge in the area.<\/p>\n

He told CornwallLive it has “always been a dream to swim with dolphins, but not like this.<\/p>\n

“I was so chuffed I was able to help and get it back out to deeper water.<\/p>\n

“The most important thing to us was to get it back to safe water and make sure it had no obvious injuries.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I knew I didn’t have much time to help” 19:02, 18 Sep 2026Updated 20:14, 18 Sep 2026 Connor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2851,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-775196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}