Dolphins Stranded In Europe’s Strongest Tides, Rescued and Released Dolphins Stranded In Europe’s Strongest Tides, Rescued and Released Comments Off on Dolphins Stranded In Europe’s Strongest Tides, Rescued and Released Cancale, France – Two dolphins were rescued on Jan 9 from Cancale, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany, north-western France, after they were stranded by Europe’s strongest tides. “I received a phone call from the firefighters at 9:30 am,” said Gabriel Gautier, director, AI lark Association, a wildlife conservation organization. “We are part of a network of organizations in France that are qualified to intervene when marine wildlife beached on our shores. So, when the firefighters received a call from locals telling them dolphins were stranded in the shallows, they contacted me.”