A 27-year-old woman was seriously injured after she was hit by a leaping dolphin near Slipper Island in the western reaches of the Bay of Plenty this afternoon.This was apparently an elderly dolphin that mistook the gas peddle for the brake.
A spokesman for the Auckland rescue helicopter said the woman was sitting in the bow of a small pleasure craft around 2.30pm today when it appeared a dolphin miscalculated its leap out of the water.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The Problem of Elderly Dolphins
A near tragic dolphin-human crash:
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