Seven hours of life and death of a Chinese white dolphin

　　Author: reporter Zhou Meng Shuang Wang Zhongyao

　　Recently, a video produced by our newspaper, "The snuggle in the mud flat for 7 hours, a Chinese white dolphin succeeded in getting out of trouble" was popularly searched by hundreds of media and government affairs such as the Economic Daily, China Daily, Voice of China, and Global Network. Number forwarding, the number of readings quickly broke 10 million.

　　This touching story happened on the seaside in Taishan City, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province.

　　At 8:55 on May 3, the Guanghai Police Station of the Taishan Public Security Bureau received 110 police reports that a Chinese white dolphin was stranded in the shallow water area of ​​Fenghaijiao, Guanghai Town, towards Baixiaowei. Hearing this news, the police Zhong Weijie felt a sigh of relief. He grew up at the beach and heard the story of the Chinese white dolphin since he was a child. It is the pride of the Taishan people that it can be accompanied by more than 300 rare species known as the "Panda at Sea" and "Mazu Fish". Putting down the phone, Zhong Weijie and four colleagues immediately drove off.

　　9:20, the rescue begins. After meeting with the alarm fishermen, Zhong Weijie found that the stranded position of the white dolphin was more than 100 meters away from the shore, and he did not have the professional skills of rescue of wild animals. What should I do? Looking at the struggling life on the mudflat, Zhong Weijie's expression was dignified. For safety reasons, Zhong Weijie arranged for two unfamiliar policemen to be on shore to contact the protected area for assistance. He took off his shoes and socks with the other two policemen, wading deeper and shallower.

　　The silt texture is soft, and you can't reach the calf with one foot. They can only crawl carefully; the water is turbid, and Zhong Weijie and his colleagues' feet are scratched by clams. At a distance of more than 100 meters, they walked with pain for more than ten minutes. After approaching the white dolphin, there are still key issues, how to save? "I know that dolphins are mammals. To breathe through the breathing hole above our head, we first hugged its head to prevent suffocation and insisted that the professionals arrived." Zhong Weijie said.

　　At 10:00, Zhong Jinze riding a motorcycle arrived. Zhong Jinze is a staff member of the Chinese White Dolphin Provincial Nature Reserve in Jiangmen, Guangdong. He has been with the white dolphin for more than ten years. After receiving help, he jumped on the "mountain" and walked away, galloping to the incident 30 kilometers away. The scenery on both sides of the road is constantly changing, but what haunts Zhong Jinze is always a picture. "I thought of the Chinese white dolphin that was killed in September last year. It strayed into the depths of the inland river and it was very difficult to rescue. After 9 consecutive days of rescue, it failed."

　　After parking the car, the dark-faced, muscular man wandered into the water without a word. "Splash water to cool down, be careful not to splash on the breathing hole" "Take clothes to cover it to prevent sunburn" "Dig the silt below to make more space" ... At a temperature of more than 30 degrees, Zhong Jinze and the police widened The life channel of the Chinese White Dolphin.

　　At 12:00, the sun was burning. The staff members on vacation in the reserve have arrived from Zhuhai, Heshan, Xinhui and other places one after another, replacing the long-running police. While Zhong Jinze held the head of the Bai Dolphin for a few hundred hours in a row, his legs had cramped and he still did not want to let go. Saving this white dolphin is his only faith at this time.

　　With so many people present and so long, why not just lift the white dolphin back into the sea? Faced with the doubts of many netizens, the reserve staff member Feng Kangkang explained: "This Chinese white dolphin is about 2.5 meters long and weighs more than 300 pounds. It is a behemoth, and it is difficult to move by mud in the mudflat. The rescue is stranded. The dolphin has a principle that it is not forced to move, otherwise it will easily hurt its pectoral fin, dorsal fin and tail, scratch the skin and cause secondary damage. It is best to maintain its vital signs and let it leave by itself with the help of high tide. "

　　During the rescue process, due to the fierce struggle of the white dolphins, the staff members were also nearly hit by air.

　　At 13:30, the gate opened. More and more people are watching the rescue of the white dolphin, looking in the eyes, anxiously. When the white dolphin lacked water, some villagers opened the gate of their fish pond. A group of young guys ran into the mudflat, digging the waterway with their bare hands, trying to lead the water as much as possible to the place where the white dolphin ran aground ... Although the amount of water was insignificant, the eyes of the staff involved in the rescue were somewhat wet.

　　At 14:00, a staff member brought a stretcher cloth. This special rescue equipment has two holes, which can pass through the two pectoral fins of the dolphin, which is conducive to its normal posture and also helps to carry it in a small area.

　　At 15:00, there was a high tide. Zhong Jinze and colleagues tried to move the Chinese White Dolphin deeper into the water. Every time they push the white dolphin forward a dozen meters, they have to stop and take a few breaths. As the water depth exceeded half a meter, rescuers removed the stretcher cloth on the white dolphin and tried to adapt it to the environment and whether it could swim deeper. However, due to the depth of the water, the swimming of the white dolphin is still somewhat reluctant.

　　15:30, "Being reluctant." With the efforts of everyone, the white dolphin has been freed from the shackles of the mudflat. Seeing its swimming in the water is very powerful, Feng Kangkang breathed a sigh of relief, "This shows that this white dolphin still maintains strong physical strength under our maintenance, and its life can continue." Unexpectedly, it should have been The departing white dolphin suddenly turned around and swam towards the rescuers. The most water-based Zhong Jinze stood at the front and drove it in the right direction. "It's not that the white dolphin can't bear us, but its sonar function is still 'debugging', and it's hard to find the way." Feng Kangkang said with a smile.

　　16:00, freshman. In the surging waves, the dorsal fin of the Chinese White Dolphin disappeared from time to time, gradually disappearing. At this time, many workers involved in the rescue did not drip. But they stood like that on the shore, looking at the sea in a thoughtful direction. It seems to be wondering how this Chinese White Dolphin will tell today's story after returning to the sea.

　　"I want to bring this scene to a national audience." Yang Yishu, the director of the Chinese White Dolphin Protection Documentary filming in Taishan City, also put away the camera. In her lens, the scene of the life and death of humans and wild animals is recorded.

　　(Reporter Zhou Mengshuang Wang Zhongyao)