Porpoise Rescue , Petticodiac River, Moncton

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.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• dolpin
• Rescue
• Petticodiac
• River
• Moncton
• Fire
• news

[karkovice10]

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?

[Newschaser]

@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.

[claudekc01]

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

[Newschaser]

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

[ArcticMonster]

Nice Rescue and nice Video there Newschaser..

[larry2043]

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

You sure have some great videos, Newschaser!!!

[larry2043]

@0wn4g3g4m3r Sorry about that!!!!

:(

[0wn4g3g4m3r]

@larry2043 Porpoise*

[rclover99]

i remember that  great bunch of videos

[vickih32]

@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...

[josh24cor]

i live in dieppe



[sharerx]

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

[MarineLifeActivist22]

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

[nicehandc]

Great video!