# Baby porpoise rescued -- Maybe

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**Created:** [August 6, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-porpoise-rescued-maybe/591731 "2011-08-06T14:20:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-porpoise-rescued-maybe/591731/1 "2011-08-06T14:20:12Z")

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[Stranded baby Dall’s porpoise escorted from Semiahmoo Marina](http://www.thenorthernlight.com/news/article.exm/2011-08-03_stranded_baby_dall_s_porpoise_escorted_from_semiahmoo_marina)

It’s a short article. Basically, a baby Dall’s porpoise was stranded on the shoreline. Two Canadian women, a man with a dinghy and a passerby whose nationalities were not stated, and a local photographer led the porpoise out of the marina.

Unfortunately the porpoise appeared to have only been a day or so old, and was weak and hungry. No mention was made of the porpoise’s mother, so I suspect the efforts were in vain.