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Porpoise Rescue , Petticodiac River, Moncton

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Uploaded by on Jun 10, 2009

Around 5:50pm a passerby seen a Porpoise stuck in the mud by where the old Gunningsville Bridge once stood, on the Petticodiac River where Moncton and Riverview join. 2 Firemen struggled thru the thick mud of the Petty to reach the stranded Porpoise . Ropes a boat and the 4wheelers winch, pulled the Porpoise up the bank. Once they had the Porpoise it was rushed on a 4 wheeler to a waiting fire truck with water , then headed down a walking trail in behind the baseball fields, looking for a better spot to release it. Video aired on CTV news with Bruce Frisko & ASN with Steve Murphy , Global News and CBC News.

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  • Hole GEEZ! J'savais meme qu'ca avait arrive!

    L'dauphin etais pas ben gros!

    Sait-tu quoi c'qui a arrive avec le dauphin?

    Do you know what happened with the dolphin?

  • @karkovice10 yes the firemen took it up the river and let it go in deeper water and it swam away! it was a porpoise they have got stuck in the mud here before.

  • I live in Moncton and I wasn't aware this happened. Nice video work and editing. What are you using for a video camera?

  • thanks I just use a hand held sony video camera with 60x zoom

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  • Nice Rescue and nice Video there Newschaser..

  • Thank goodness someone saw this poor dolphin so it could be rescued!!!

    You sure have some great videos, Newschaser!!!

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  • @0wn4g3g4m3r Sorry about that!!!!

    :(

  • @larry2043 Porpoise*

  • i remember that  great bunch of videos

  • @sharerx That is were it came from, the river eventually goes out to sea.... Some times they take the wrong turn.

    I remember 10 years ago this happened but there were 3 of them and they were adults, they were stuck around the Riverview Superstore...

  • i live in dieppe

    

  • How did it get there. They are supposed to live in the sea.

  • This is so great! I love watching animals get a secend chance at life!

  • Great video!

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