12-02-2016, 03:48 PM
A city worker in Jacksonville discovered a Manatee stick in a 36 in drainage pipe.
He alerted the right people and after a five hour rescue the Manatee was feed.
There is a video and it does have a happy ending. It takes a lot of effort, but they do manage to free him. He will be looked after for a short time before he is released.
http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0
I have just one question. The Manatee is 1000 pounds and nine feet long. I am 125 pounds and five feet long. I wouldn't try to crawl through a 36 in pipe. What was the Manatee thinking. I don't even know how so big an animal got into so small a pipe in the first place.
Well done first responders and rescuers in Jacksonville Florida. They saved the Manatees life. He could never have gotten out on his own.
He alerted the right people and after a five hour rescue the Manatee was feed.
There is a video and it does have a happy ending. It takes a lot of effort, but they do manage to free him. He will be looked after for a short time before he is released.
http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0
I have just one question. The Manatee is 1000 pounds and nine feet long. I am 125 pounds and five feet long. I wouldn't try to crawl through a 36 in pipe. What was the Manatee thinking. I don't even know how so big an animal got into so small a pipe in the first place.
Well done first responders and rescuers in Jacksonville Florida. They saved the Manatees life. He could never have gotten out on his own.
Catherine