{"id":3394,"date":"2021-09-02T21:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:21:37","slug":"dolphins-help-rescue-a-lost-swimmer-off-the-irish-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/09\/02\/dolphins-help-rescue-a-lost-swimmer-off-the-irish-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins Help Rescue a Lost Swimmer Off the Irish Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a swimmer was missing for almost 12 hours off the Irish coast, the 24-year-old man has been rescued after a pod of dolphins were spotted swimming around the young man\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>This caught the attention of a volunteer lifeboat crew, and Fenit RNLI was able to spot the man near Castlegregory in County Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>After rescuing the young man, the RNLI stated: \u201cAt 20:30, the volunteer lifeboat crew with Fenit RNLI spotted a pod of dolphins and a head above the water about two-and-a-half miles off Castlegregory beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been reported that the 24-year-old was conscious and \u201cimmediately recovered onto the lifeboat,\u201d with no serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58328587\"><strong>BBC News<\/strong><\/a>, the dolphins have been seen off the Irish coast since 2019, with scientists and conservationists confirming they can identify individual dolphins by the shape and markings on their dorsal fins. In fact, the dolphins seen, have been identified as the same ones from Sunday\u2019s rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After a swimmer was missing for almost 12 hours off the Irish coast, the 24-year-old man has been rescued after a pod of dolphins were spotted swimming around the young man\u2019s head. This caught the attention of a volunteer lifeboat crew, and Fenit RNLI was able to spot the man near Castlegregory in County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}