The moment when Two Policemen rescued a Dolphin stranded on a Tamaulipas beach

Globe Live Media, Friday, January 29, 2021

A Dolphin ran to the risk of dying after it was stranded on a beach in Tamaulipas. Fortunately, it was rescued on time by elements of the police and managed to return to the sea.

According to the State Public Security Secretariat, the heroic work was registered this Jan 28 around 4:00 p.m., in the El Mezquital town, located an hour and a half north of the city of Matamoros.

And it is that the agents of the State Police carried out a surveillance tour of the Baghdad beach when they saw the mammal stranded in the sand. As they got closer, they noticed that it was still alive but without the possibility of moving, so they did not hesitate to help it.

Without the opportunity to remove their shoes, they immediately carried him and They brought it to a deeper area where it could swim out to sea.

The rescue scenes were videotaped by fellow police officers, and when broadcast on the redes sociales, caused hundreds of congratulations and thanks to the uniformed.

“One day you are fighting crime and the next you save a Dolphin. Congratulations! ”,“ The good deeds of the police are hardly counted. The country still has hope ”,“ Bravo! You have to recognize good policemen “, were some comments that you can read about it on Twitter.

According to the biologist Raúl Díaz Gamboa, Doctor in Marine Sciences from the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY), a high percentage of marine mammals that strand off the coasts of the Yucatan peninsula they arrive dead.

The number of strandings varies. The year is divided into three seasons: north, rainy and dry, so most of the strandings occur in the northern season in the first months of the year, the most frequent being February, April, May and June.

The scholar of marine fauna stressed that men, through activities like fishing, cause a high percentage of mortality in these species, while a lower percentage is because the mammals are already of advanced age, that is, they get sick and become disoriented.

He also argued that collisions with boats and predation play a role, as some people use dolphins as bait for sharks.