{"id":748739,"date":"2022-01-14T00:35:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T00:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/watch-florida-police-officer-rescues-dolphin-entangled-in-fishing-net\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T00:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T00:35:31","slug":"watch-florida-police-officer-rescues-dolphin-entangled-in-fishing-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/watch-florida-police-officer-rescues-dolphin-entangled-in-fishing-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Florida police officer rescues dolphin entangled in fishing net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Florida-police-officer-rescues-dolphin-entangled-in-fishing-net.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmiamidadepd%2Fvideos%2F334652455186932%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 13 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Florida police officer used a pole and a knife to rescue a dolphin spotted entangled in a fishing net in Biscayne Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami-Dade Police Department said Marine Patrol Unit officer Nelson Silva responded to the bay, near the Shorecrest area of Miami, when the unit received a call about a juvenile dolphin in distress.\n<\/p>\n<p>Silva drove his patrol boat to the dolphin&#8217;s location and a video posted to Facebook by the Police Department shows him using a pole to snare the net and pull it closer to his vessel.<\/p>\n<p>The video then shows Silva using a knife to cut through the net and free the dolphin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got you, buddy,&#8221; Silva says in the footage.<\/p>\n<p>The dolphin hurriedly swims off after being freed .<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 13 (UPI) &#8212; A Florida police officer used a pole and a knife to rescue a dolphin spotted entangled in a fishing net in Biscayne Bay. The Miami-Dade Police Department said Marine Patrol Unit officer Nelson Silva responded to the bay, near the Shorecrest area of Miami, when the unit received a call about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}