Marine Rescues
Information Overview
Kingy the Dolphin
In January 2007 Sea World released 'Kingy' a rescued dolphin, back into its natural habitat at Bribie Island, north of Brisbane.
Turtle Rehabilitation Program
Throughout Australia in the past 30 years marine turtle populations have been decreasing rapidly due to human impacts, such as boat strikes and fishing tackle entanglements.
Dugong Rehabilitation
In November 2002, eight months after being released into Moreton Bay, Pig was found in Days Gutter, adjacent to the Kooringal township at the southern end of Moreton Island.
Rehabilitated Drum Line Dolphin
Sea World has successfully returned the latest in a line of rescued animals, a female Inshore Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), to the sea after a five month long rehabilitation at the park.
Minke Whale Rescue
Sea World, in conjunction with the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, came to the aid of a six metre Minke Whale stranded on a sandbank 2nm off Toondah Harbour at Cleveland.
Entrapped Whale at Kirra
On August 1 1998, a juvenile Humpback Whale became entrapped in a shark net at Kirra. With an increase in these incidents Sea World and the Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol have developed procedures to deal with these incidents quickly and effectively.
Vanuatu
Sea World experts were flown to Port Vila where a pod of spinner dolphins had swum into a lagoon, but were unable to navigate their way out through the maze of coral back to open waters.
Brydes Whale
In August 1994, Sea World joined the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in a three-month operation to help a 10-tonne Brydes whale trapped in the Manning River near Taree.
Fraser Island
When a 35 tonne Humpback Whale was stranded on the spit at the north of Fraser Island in August 1994, a Sea World helicopter carrying a rescue team flew to the area to find the whale high and dry on a sand bank.
Dudley the Baby Dolphin
In January 1991, Sea World was called to help a lone, stranded baby Indo Pacific Humpback dolphin, named Dudley, at Alva Beach near Townsville.
