Unless they get him out and to a rescue facility in the next few hours I don't think he will make it. The water is poisonous, probably freezing cold, the change in color is distress and he is likely in shock. Sad to say euthanasia may be the best option if something isn't done by nightfall.

Go figure why that water isn't frozen...even the Hudson is frozen in some parts.

Be dead in a few hours I bet.

Antistupidity........the cold is not much of an issue, dolphins swim in these waters year round. The pollution is an issue, especially if the dolphin has open wounds.

mike277......salt water has a lower freezing point than fresh water, and moving tidal water is still slower to freeze, this area is both. Lower Hudson has not frozen year, until last week is was relatively warm.

Am prayin that this is gonna have a happy ending! ( Cmon folk! get that dolphin's life saved quick)

am worried

Somebody better do something.....

What a friggin slow response from "authorities"...who are these clowns anyway?

If these dumbasses cant do sh!t, because they are stcuk in red tape and eating doughnuts while trying to figure out what to do; call in the big Guns (the public)

I betcha some Kindergatners are ready to jump in like Team Seal 6 to get the job done

Yes, get it out!! And, then you might think about cleaning up the canal that empties pollutants into the New York Harbor. WTF!

I think they're hoping it dies first, so they don't have to gear up their expensive equipment to meet the public's demand. Unbelievably cruel.

Please everyone...we can all help instead of just talking...This is the phone number to the Riverhead Foundation the rescue group in new york 631-369-9829. Call them and tell them to rescue this poor dolphin! His back fin is injured thats why he is in the canal. The tide is low and he is trying to stay in the shallows so he doesent drown! If they wait for the tide to come in...He will drown! He won't be able to use his injured Back Fin to stay afloat to beath air!! There is something wrapped around his mouth. He is clearly looking for Help! Staying close to the wall trying to stay above water to breath! Please call them and let them know! I already called and talked to the operator! Please call "everybody". He wants our help...just look at him! His body language, the head bobbing, close to the wall......

a toxic canal in New York? , who knew?.....well besides everybody , what an azz boil state

I'll bet these so called hero's are standing around playing rock, paper, scissors to see who'll have to get in the boat to try and help this poor creature.

Come on you dingbats, save this dolphin...NOW!!!

world news last night showed a diver saving a dolphin out of the kindness of his heart. how sad they stand there and do nothing.

If it had been a human or someone's dog, do you think they would have had a "wait and see" attitude?

I don't think so!!!!

Shame on those fools!

Not a good job NYC. The dolphin's dead now. You idiots have the largest secuirty department of any city and your plan is 'Wait till morning'. Yeah let's all wait around and watch while the thing dies.

The senior F-in biologist was waiting to save the dolphin, because he didn't want to stress him out. Well go get him now you dumb@!$%#, and don't worry you won't stress him out. Someone please FIRE this idiot.

If there were reports by witnesses that the dolphin was bleeding, they had an obligation to pull the animal out immediately for proper medical attention. Just by looking at it from above, you are not going to be able to tell if the wound is serious and, being in a contaminated canal, infected. Poor job to the "rescue" team standing by for morning. At least the dolphin is no longer suffering now.

He has just died :-((((((((((

I'm surprised the lying scumbag Shumer is not down there for a photo op. It's also a darn good thing that Oblama has reduced the deficit by half in his first term and cleaned up the enviroment as he promised, now they have clean water and money to save the dolphin. Oh snap that's right, those were just lies so now we have tuna fish

One Dolphin - Go figure.

Oh something was done about this site, back in 2010 was labeled a huge Superfund site.

EPA:

See the thinking is this, give it a label and a miracle will clean it up. No stress involved, spend time and money investigating and testing that water. Now have meetings to discuss it and what needs to be done.

Oh wonderful we have a decision you say? Oh OK, we give it a label and call it a day.

Is it pay day yet? We worked very hard to clean this toxic site up our job is done and we really earned those hefty pay checks with this site.

we are waiting for the tide to rise...maybe they were waiting for more money to be donated in order to save the creature.

Another innocent victim of the cesspool they call New York.

Intelligent & Independent

If it had been a human or someone's dog, do you think they would have had a "wait and see" attitude?

I don't think so!!!!

Shame on those fools!

There are thousands of innocent lives taken everyday by abortion, where is the outcry to save these lives?!!!

MM-584706

Antistupidity........the cold is not much of an issue, dolphins swim in these waters year round. The pollution is an issue, especially if the dolphin has open wounds.

Sadly it does not not make a difference anymore, but being injured and in obvious distress its regulatory systems would likely not be working properly, its osmotic system poisoned by the toxic cesspool it was in, it would likely be having difficulty regulating its body temperature making it far more susceptible to hypothermia.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

You people ACTUALLY thought New York was going to do something in time for this poor dolphin?

Hell, it's been 3 months since Sandy and people are still living in squalor.

As much as it's a shame about the outcome here we still have thousands of Americans suffering because our government is incompetent.

It's a wonder Cuomo, Bloomberg and Schumer weren't out there for their obligayory photo-ops with the dying dolphin.

This is just a pathetic embarrassment.

just chop it up ,and can it as "bumble bee chunk light tuna in oil" ,it is definitely packed in oil if swimming in those polluted waters

It's really sad and disturbing that a senior biologist ignored the signs of distress the dolphin was exhibiting, and did nothing to try to save this wonderful mammal. It would've been nothing to set a small boat or a mobile crane lift to get it out of the water and at least try to save its life. Even if the dolphin was rescued and later succumbed to the pollution that entered into its body, at least it would've been a valiant effort to save its life. I guess too many people nowadays don't care unless their pockets are lined with some money, which goes to show their true character. To all the people that stood around and did nothing, I hope karma bites you in the ass.

@mike277 the water won't freeze ,there is way too much "antifreeze" in the gowanus canal

What a bunch of morons. Wait until Saturday and see if it gets out at high tide? WTF? That polluted water killed the dolphin and they might as well have just shot the thing than to leave it suffer to death in that swill. Shame on them. They should have removed it immediately and took it to a local aquarium for rehab.

I can't believe the lazyness I just saw The people just standing looking paralized, The police just standing there watching so people don't jump in to try and save it, You telling me we can't get a fire dept boat over there and show us some of the training they have recieved and put it to use, Oh I am sorry there looking at the TV page. It makes me sick.

Will they sit there bull@!$%#ing an let dolphin Die why to go!

To die alone and frightened. That's probably the worst way to go. RIP dolphin. You are loved.

"Throw him a hoodie."

How'd that get collapsed? Did I hurt a tree huggers feelings?

That's too bad. You have police who'll shoot up a sidewalk full of people but won't have their brave brigade of SWATters take a .308 and vent a dying dolphin because they'll be overrun with pussies. Shame on all you do-nothing bastards.

That's just a cruel statement, denver bill.

Exactly! What is their problem? They need to get their butts in gear and help that poor dolphin!

Why? It would be food if it wasn't endangered. Killing for no reason, bad, killing for food, good.

We eat dolphin the fish, not dolphin the mammal. "It’s giving the animal time to work the problem out before you introduce stress by intervention." Jeez, you have got to be kidding me. "Stress by intervention?" First of all, the animal has it's head out of the water, looking at the people, so it doesn't fear people, which it should. Second, it's still an animal. How many people do you think should risk their lives to save an obviously confused dolphin? Let nature take it's course.

UncleBen you are a completely heartless, uninformed prick. There is no such thing as a fish dolphin. They are all mammals. Dolphins are extremely intelligent animals (unlike you) and he should be helped immediately. He is stuck in some kind of horrendous black goo. Whoever is in charge of rescue needs to go in right now before he dies!

See above.

Im sorry for saying this but it is incredible how primitive those people look just staring at the poor animal" the animal closing in to the edge seems more aware of where he should position himself to get pulled out ,I hope they were able to get him out with a chance of survival. :I

They had all afternoon maybe longer? to rescue this beautiful dolphin!! lets wait until Saturday! OMG!

Shame on them for their their response to this situation! Good job!

No one here seems to get it. We are making the world toxic for all living things. We are living things. We are not cars or computers. We can not consume oil and chemicals. We are next to die.

Animal lover,

There is a fish called a "dolphin". It is not the bottle-nosed dolphin you are thinking of, however (which is a mammal). Google it, you'll see. Uncle Ben's statement was factual. Your indignation might be better directed towards t2vodka, who Uncle Ben was responding to.

By the way, the dolphin in the canal has died.

Looks like Flipper took a dive.

Call me heartless.

animallover 56, In Florida we catch dolphin the FISH! Also called mahi mahi or dorado. What you are looking at is a porpoise. They are warm blooded and feed milk to their young. Very Smart and like humans, even saved humans in many different ways.

It's dead. Can't you people read?

Mr. Binkie, a lot of people probably made these comments before the dolphin was pronounced dead. They write these articles and then update them when something changes. When the article was first written the dolphin was alive...they changed the headline when it died.

if thats the gowanus canal ,that is NOT WATER ,ITS A TOXIC SLURRIE of OIL ,PAINT ,LEAD,TRASH ,MOB VICTIMS in BARRELS,RUSTY GUNS &KNIVES ,SHOPPING CARTS &TIRES doubt anything would survive in the "water"

this week its "Binky the dolphin" ,yesterday it was"sludgie the whale" that was in the gowanus !i don't know what would make them swin up the gowanus canal ,they should rename it "ANAS the Canal" its that dirty

A person doesn't LIVE in water, moron. If this was a dolphin out on land, hey would put it back in. But just like they don't help out every human who is on land, they don't do it.

Look children...stop acting like you are expert marine biologists when NONE of you have anything beyond a 2nd grade education in ANY subject.

You play the odds. And hthe odds suggested that waiting a day wa the best thingto do. Just because it died (which it likely would have done anyway) does not mean it was the wrong move to make at hte time. You idiots are the type of ignorant morons who if you had to bet money on whether a single die would end up on 1, or it would end up on any number from 2-6, if the die ended up on 1, you would be mad at yourself for picking the better bet.

COinFL you are talking about mahimahi which look nothing like a dolphin, but they do have a nickname of "dolphinfish". For Uncle Ben, who said dolphins are just animals and should be left to die (which is why I really replied to him):

Even though they live in the ocean all of the time, dolphins are mammals, not fish.

Like every mammal, dolphins are warm blooded. Unlike fish, who breathe through gills, dolphins breathe air using lungs. Dolphins must make frequent trips to the surface of the water to catch a breath. The blowhole on top of a dolphin's head acts as a "nose," making it easy for the dolphin to surface for air.

Other characteristics of dolphins that make them mammals rather than fish are that they give birth to live young rather than laying eggs and they feed their young with milk. Also, like all mammals, dolphins even have a tiny amount of hair, right around the blowhole, which is a little different than the scales of a fish.

Whales and porpoises are also mammals. There are 75 species of dolphins, whales, and porpoises living in the ocean. They are the only mammals, other than manatees, that spend their entire lives in the water.

Hello ignorant people!

The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish^[1] (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Also known widely as dorado, it is one of only two members of the Coryphaenidae family, the other being the pompano dolphinfish.

Being referred to as a "dolphin"^[2][3] causes it to be confused with the more widely known marine mammals called dolphins.

Mahi -mahi is the Hawaiin term for the FISH that is also known as a dolphin.

good one IX

No, u r more-ons. Get it imbeciles?? That's the only way you mental giants can communicate these days...oh wait, cum-u-nick8.

What a bunch of morons! It's obvious it can't breathe and is struggling for help!! You would think that some dolphin park in America that would pay $250K to fly a dolphin from Taiji to do tricks would jump in and offer to rescue it for free..oh wait, that might entail veterinarian bill and cut into their bottom line. Makes me ill watching it :(

Go back and re-read the article, mary0816b. They are waiting to see if he will go back to where he came from, on his own! Such stupid people. If he's injured, and in poisonous water, air lift him back to the sea or take him to a Zoo Vet first. They are just sitting there watching this animal die a slow and painful death.

I'm sure they would be screaming bloody murder if they themselves were in that water and couldn't get out. They would expect to be rescued immediately.

Waiting until the tide rises this (Friday) evening. I think it's too weak to save itself. Having waited this long, I think there will not be any rescue on Saturday, because Brooklyn, NY will have let this mammal die in the poisonous canal.

High tide is expected to be around 7:00 pm today (Friday). There was an earlier high tide today, so what makes the "authorities" think this dolphin which is probably weaker and more exhausted now will find its way out in the darkened, poisonous sludge that the canal contains?

It makes me feel like drawing a really bad political cartoon.

A politician in the water and dolphins on the dock telling bad human jokes. "Maybe he will swim out by himself. Bwaaaahhha haaa. " Some famous cartoonist take it, it's yours.

Oh, the justic of irony. Such a sad day for the U.S. But a great nightmare to wish upon the heartless. Stop pollution!

It's DEAD, read the headline of the article!!!

Willis, it was probably still alive when some of these people commented. They update these articles as things change. The dolphin was probably still alive when most here commented. When the dolphin died, the headline was updated.

it's NEW YORK , run by leftists , libbie cry babies , and liars , they don't give a rats azz about that animal OR you , it's the Alinsky "faux tolerance" party

> "...then put the dolphin in the net..."

That's step was a _just— little simplified.

maybe none of the divers want to go in that water?

Todd, you obviously don't work for the government. Congrats, your solution seems practical; however, for govt. agencies, this will drag on, dozens of departments will become involved, and they're probably working on some Power Point presentation as we speak. The longer it takes, the more people involved, the more they can justify over-employing government workers. Good luck, dolphin!!!

Uh, no, they should not put a diver in there, the water is way to polluted for that, could make any human sick if it comes in contact with his/her skin.

They have diving suits for that kind of thing, t2. face masks and air tanks, etc. Don't have to get in naked! Plus they could bring out one of those de-contamination showers for the diver before he ever gets out of his wetsuit.

There are crabs on the bottom? Yuck. Must be the new 5 eyed black crab. Tastes best when steamed and dipped in motor oil.

I seriously doubt there is a wet suit in existence that could protect a diver from death in that water.

Weird..you want to let nature take its course...AFTER they intervene somewhat.

most public TOILETS that are unflushed and filled with vomit, piss &floater brown turds are cleaner then the gowanus canal

Sorry Folks, when I was in Afghanistan, somebody drove one of the new up-armored Hummers into the @!$%# ponds at the far end of KAF. 2 Air Force para rescue divers were called in to look inside before the truck was pulled out. If you can dive in a sewage treatment plant (in a dry suit), you can dive anywhere!

Call Al Gore, he needs something to do.......

It's because of people like al gore that you can breath fairly clean air, drink water, and still have land to hunt, fish and camp on.

Actually, America's carbon footprint is dropping because of the natural gas industry more than any government supported "green" businesses Gore and Obama spend YOUR tax dollars on.

That's right. SHALE GAS has lowered the price of energy so much, that coal is being replaced. And CH4 creates fewer CO2 emissions than coal. (According to the EU as well) Thus, SHALE GAS (and thus fracturing) is cleaning the air.

But then, you would have to actually read factual information rather than listine to Al Gore to learn these things.

And I do hope they can take action in time for the dolphin. Wonder why NY has left this canal so polluted for 100 years?

Well that was pointless. Let's all stand around and watch a life struggle to breathe, do nothing and then die...bravo America, greatest country in the world!

God, I hate this state!!! From the taxes, high cost of living, our rights being taken away on a daily basis, to the Barney Fife State Troopers, who make over $100,000 thousand dollars a year to set up radar and talk down to the people, who pay their salaries, like they're somehow better than everybody else, to the morons who could care less about an innocent animal dying in this god forsaken polluted state! I can't wait to get the hell out of here!!! Last person out, turn off the lights!!!

Scubagril, try bravo to the "rescue" team in NYC. On the West Coast, responders get out to the report of a marine animal in distressed immediately when the call is placed and work to help the animal immediately as the animal is already under enough stress. Of course they also do this when it is safe enough to do so depending on the environment and location. In this case, since the dolphin was in a canal, the team should have gone in.

AMEN

I will place my bet with humans helping that dolphin then with God. If God is so loving and careing for his creations, then pay that he comes down, scoops up the dolphin and saves it, after all, he is supposedly testing humans, not the animals.

@t2vodka,

Actually, God gave humans Dominion over the earth. That means He trusted mankind to take care of the earth and the animals. So, it is our obligation to take care of this animal.

Sadly, we have made a mess of the earth; notice the filthy water in the video. That said, this Dolphin should be saved by people, people doing God's will. Sure enough, just as the water turned to sewage over time as people watched, this Dolphin will surely perish under their watch.

your an @!$%#!!! What if that was you stuck down there? I would be saying who gives a f*ck to you prick.

Ya, too bad you weren't in that poor dolphin's place ForThe1000thTime. I'd rather see you down there suffering.

it smelled like urine the whole time I was there once.

krm-978232.....bet it smelled better after you left.............

Defend your hole all you want. Truth is, the place is disgusting. Too many people in such a small area. And it being the first stop for those coming over from Europe, it's no wonder the rest of the world hates us so much. And you think you're all that...

I'm not going to discuss your fetish with dolphins!!!! just sayin If it were so intelligent it shouldnt have swam into that sewage infested canal....

Ever see the Russians dumping their vast amounts of radioactive wastes into the Ocean? Mammals are beaching themselves in numbers never before seen. And it's only getting worse. You may want to keep your mouth shut and only appear stupid, as opposed to opening it and removing all doubt.

cause it's there fault that people pollute the rivers seriously grow up douchbag

this is for all the @!$%#s that don't care about animals. Your F--- up.Do u think he or she swam their on perpose. unless it was hurt.

??????? wtf are you babbling about?!?!? "animal manslaughter" thats funny and a little creepy!!

Can't you feel the Love?

Why don't they send in a convict charged with animal manslaughter? they will learn their lesson and help save an animal

Yes they should send in Obama or Shumer. Both of them have blood on their hands already. Shumer for helping Clinton cover up Waco and Obama well you name it there is plenty. Heck I bet Obama could just walk on the water

They also can't send in divers as then they might turn up all those bodies that the NYPD threw in there.

If you throw cherry bombs in the water it might catch on fire lol. Then you would have roasted binki taco's

You're an idiot - period.