Search for man reported to be drowning near Brean called off after nothing found
The team was stood down at around 1.30am on Saturday morning.
The BARB Search & Rescue hovercraft during last night s search (Image: BARB Search and Rescue)
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A TEAM of marine mammal medics was called to a dolphin stranded on a beach in the Seven Estuary. The six-foot-long common dolphin had washed up on the high tide and was stranded at Sandy Bay near Weston-super-Mare, north Somerset today (January 3). Coastguards from Weston attended the scene along with the Burnham Area Rescue Boat s (BARB) fully trained marine mammal medics and British Divers Marine Life Rescue, who specialise in marine strandings. The team walked out across the mudflats to reach the stranded dolphin where they assessed its condition. “It had initially been showing signs of life, with air being blown through its blowhole, but sadly it was declared deceased during the incident,” said BARB spokesman Mark Newman.
A six-foot-long common dolphin died after it was found washed up on a beach in north Somerset today.
A team of marine mammal medics was called to reports of a stranded dolphin at Sandy Bay near Weston-super-Mare.
The dolphin had washed up on the high tide and was initially showing signs of life by blowing air through it s blowhole but died shortly after.
Coastguards from Weston attended the scene along with the Burnham Area Rescue Boat s (BARB) fully trained marine mammal medics and British Divers Marine Life Rescue, who specialise in marine strandings.
A dolphin died after it was found washed up on the high tide and stranded at Sandy Bay near Weston-super-Mare in north Somerset today
A TEAM of marine mammal medics was called to a dolphin stranded on a beach in the Seven Estuary. The six-foot-long common dolphin had washed up on the high tide and was stranded at Sandy Bay near Weston-super-Mare, north Somerset today (January 3). Coastguards from Weston attended the scene along with the Burnham Area Rescue Boat s (BARB) fully trained marine mammal medics and British Divers Marine Life Rescue, who specialise in marine strandings. The team walked out across the mudflats to reach the stranded dolphin where they assessed its condition. “It had initially been showing signs of life, with air being blown through its blowhole, but sadly it was declared deceased during the incident,” said BARB spokesman Mark Newman.