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An injured dolphin surfaces in the Gowanus Canal in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Jan. 25.
By Andrew Mach and Vignesh Ramachandran, Staff Writers, NBC News
An injured dolphin became stranded in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal on Friday and authorities were working on a rescue plan.?
Live helicopter video from NBCNewYork.com showed the sea mammal bobbing up and down in the canal's murky water ? which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared a Superfund site in 2010 because it contained a?"century's worth" of pollutants.
The dolphin appeared to be stuck in one place, coming up?occasionally for air as an New York Police Department crew worked to figure out a rescue plan. And it was unclear how the creature got in the the predicament in the first place.
The Northeast Regional Office of the NOAA Fisheries Service confirmed to NBCNewYork.com it is a short-beaked common dolphin, which is known for a dark gray cape on its back.
Witnesses said the animal appeared to be bleeding from its dorsal fin, the New York Daily News reported.
"He keeps going up and down and going from side to side and people are saying we don?t know what?s taking so long to go in there and save him," Brooklyn resident Cathy Ryan told the Daily News. "He?s in bad shape. You can tell. A dolphin is grey, but he?s black right now. He was starting to swim toward the middle of the canal. But it doesn't look good."
A senior biologist at the Riverhead Foundation told NBCNewYork.com rescuers are waiting to see if the dolphin would leave on its own: "The best course of action is to see if that when the tide comes back in the animal will move back out," Robert?DiGiovanni told NBCNewYork.com. "It?s giving the animal time to work the problem out before you introduce stress by intervention."
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Officials stand on the side of the Gowanus Canal as the dolphin comes up for air after getting stuck on Jan. 25, in the Brooklyn.
If the dolphin is not able to escape by itself during the Friday evening high tide, the NYPD told The Associated Press they will help out on Saturday.
Eight-year-old?Anabell Blaine told NBCNewYork.com she hopes they get the dolphin out:?"Dolphins are so beautiful."
A day earlier, a WNBC news helicopter spotted a minke whale swimming in the Gowanus Bay.
Manufactured gas plants, mills, tanneries, and chemical plants are among the many facilities that operated along the Gowanus canal, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
"After discharges, storm water runoff, sewer outflows and industrial pollutants, the Gowanus Canal has become one of the nation's most extensively contaminated water bodies," the EPA said.
The EPA said the contamination in the canal, which empties into New York Harbor, poses a threat to the nearby residents who use the canal for fishing and recreation.
Bystander?Vinny Internicola told the Daily News on Friday he can smell the water from his vantage point: "I can?t imagine being in there."
The canal is surrounded by the?Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook neighborhoods of Brooklyn, according to NBCNewYork.com.
NBCNewYork.com's Gus Rosendale contributed to this story.
Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/25/16699755-dolphin-stranded-in-new-york-canal?lite
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