Dolphins cruising in Bahamas

Future home on Coast possible

By JOSHUA NORMAN

jdnorman@sunherald.com

One year after their departure, the dolphins of the Marine Life Oceanarium have met with a mixed fate.

Tessie, the 31-year-old dolphin once left behind without her pod mates in Florida, died after a long illness in the Bahamas about a week ago.

The other 16 are healthy and swimming along in their new confines at Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, said Frank Murru, chief marine officer for Kerzner International, which owns the resort.

"All of them are doing very well," said Murru, after returning from a tour of a large facility being built for them. "The whole facility is supposed to be done sometime in May. (Right now) they live in their own social groups. We don't really separate the dolphins into their own pools. The groups that they live in have a series of pools that they call home."