WATCH: @KerryNBC and a team of others rescued a second dolphin that washed ashore in Marco Island, Florida, after #Irma pic.twitter.com/r2RkoOwePS
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 11, 2017
A TV reporter took a break from his duties Monday — to rescue two dolphins stranded on Florida shores in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
Sunshine State-based NBC correspondent Kerry Sanders was looking over damage on Marco Island in southwest Florida when he came upon a baby dolphin.
He and another good Samaritan slowly helped the exhausted and confused sea mammal back into the Gulf of Mexico before it swam away.
Then an hour later, Sanders came upon another dolphin, this time an adult.
He had more help this time. He and seven others hoisted Flipper and put it safely back into the surf.
“It was big, It took a lot of people together to get that dolphin back into the water,” Sanders said. “It was heavy, not easy.”