Here are just a few of the 125 dolphins that got stuck Friday after the tide dropped, struggling in shallow water. With time running out, a massive response. Volunteers arm with life jackets diving in to help, surrounding each dolphin, herding them out to deeper water. Others using boats to bring them out, and some doing triage, dousing the dolphins with buckets filled with water, and even using wet bedsheets to keep them cool. More than 100 dolphins were saved. The International Fund for Animal Welfare is leading the rescue effort.

This event of this size is actually fairly unusual. So this is our largest straining event on record in our organization's history of 26 years.

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