10 dolphins strand on Sandy Neck

BARNSTABLE — Rescuers from the International Fund for Animal Welfare spent Saturday working in Barnstable as 10 dolphins were stranded on Sandy Neck.

A crew of bystanders worked to keep the dolphins wet while waiting for the IFAW team to show up.

The IFAW team arrived on the scene and helped refloat the dolphins back out, but two of them stranded themselves again in Barnstable Harbor, said IFAW spokeswoman Kerry Branon.

“Our team is with them now checking their health and will plan to release at Scusset Beach if their health permits,” Branon said at around 2 p.m. Saturday. By late afternoon, the two had been successfully released at Scusset Beach in Sandwich, Branon said.

IFAW also was continuing to keep an eye out for the remaining eight dolphins in case they strand themselves again, Branon said.

By late afternoon, two other dolphins were reported stranded in Wellfleet near the pier, and an IFAW team was headed there, Branon said.

— Staff writer Mary Ann Bragg contributed to this report.