A Dolphin Probably Died in Coney Island Yesterday
UPDATE: According to Brooklyn Daily: “This morning, police said that the dolphin was gone, but that they do not know where it went or when.”
A dolphin got stuck in Coney Island Creek yesterday when the tide receded, stranding it in two feet of water beneath the Cropsey Avenue Bridge, Brooklyn Daily reports. Experts hypothesized it may have been sick and seeking refuge. News reports indicated officials hoped the dolphin would swim out of the creek at high tide after 6pm yesterday evening, but most haven’t been updated since, apparently because it seems the dolphin is dead, but the death is difficult to confirm. “Shortly after 3pm, the dolphin attempted to beach itself, and then suddenly disappeared under the water,” ABC reported. “It had not been seen since then, and officials fear the dolphin may have died.” As one Gothamist commenter put it, “These stray-lone-dolphin-in-an-NYC-waterway stories crop up a couple of times a year, it seems, and they always end up being dead-dolphin stories. So it goes.”