BRIGANTINE, N.J. (AP) – Experts still don't know if the recent deaths of 3 dolphins found in waters off southern New Jersey are related.
Officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine were notified Sunday afternoon about a common dolphin that was trapped between the rungs of a ladder underneath a dock in the Ocean City lagoon.
Center Director Bob Schoelkopf tells The Press of Atlantic City that it appears the dolphin got caught in the ladder and panicked. It was found around 4 p.m., roughly the same time another common dolphin was found on the beach in the Villas section of Lower Township.
Another common dolphin died Monday, shortly after it was found stranded but alive in the Barnegat Bay in Stafford.
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