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A BABY PORPOISE was rescued yesterday by the Irish Coast Guard after becoming stranded on Portmarnock beach in Dublin.
Just after 3pm, the coast guard was requested to assist the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) and the decision was made to bring the beached baby mammal back into the sea in the hope it would swim away.
The boat team carefully placed the porpoise on board and brought it a kilometre out into the open water.
(Irish Coast Guard/YouTube)
The porpoise now named ‘Fungie Beag’ [little Fungie] was placed in the water, and the coast guard said that after some “initial hesitation” it successfully returned to the water and swam back into the Irish Sea, hopefully returning to its family.
Porpoises are very similar to dolphins but have shorter beaks and are seen in the Irish Sea with the same swimming patterns as dolphins.
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Great technology and fantastic to see this in Ireland. How is it being financed ? I see Journal and Journalist bashing busy again here. A strong press is one of the bulwarks against totalitarianism. The weakening of the press is the weakening of democracy and a civilised society.
@On the Up:
Good question! Free service, seemingly.
@On the Up: it’s financed through the industry… but at least you got an excuse to throw a few big words in.
@On the Up: why only now though.all the same great new great technology.
How about not been able to turn off the location tracking from the flight deck. Its bonkers that Google can tell me exactly where I have been been but not planes. Seriously how has this not been fixed yet. Guess there is no extra charge the airlines can come up with for it.
@Vincent #SaveDaredevil: google doesn’t know where you were, it knows where your phone was.
@Pilib: Unless you tow your phone behind you on a 200m rope, then it amounts to the same thing.
@Vincent #SaveDaredevil: Maybe because that’s not how location tracking works on planes? (Nor on your phone when you’re flying 35k feet above the sea, for that matter)
@PedroB: or maybe just turn off location permission on your device from your own cockpit! Then google couldn’t find you either.
Is there a big dial showing how long is ‘A long long way from Clare to here’ in each case?
Very proud that Ireland are hosting / providing this service.
super and long overdue i guess…
Flight radar was good
Nice one
So that’s what those kites are for…
Must be a new day the journal hacks are starting to wake up with cheap storys as usual nothing changes here ha
@Liam Ward: What are you on about? I find this story very interesting, being interested in aviation and all that. Go back to bed.
Born in Australia to Hungarian parents represented Australia until 2012 then switched to representing another country seems almost as bad if not worse than situation in international soccer.
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