{"id":789155,"date":"2026-02-26T00:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789155\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:48:12","slug":"dead-dolphin-found-on-heacham-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789155\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead dolphin found on Heacham beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dead dolphin was found on a beach last week.<\/p>\n<p>The mammal was discovered on Heacham South Beach at around 3.45pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>A medic from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) was on scene and confirmed that it was a bottlenose dolphin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1131 848\" alt=\"The mammal was a bottle nose dolphin. Picture: Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Team\/Matt Curtis\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"QLSC208GDOGR5QMR2ODF.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.33\"\/>The mammal was a bottle nose dolphin. Picture: Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Team\/Matt Curtis<\/p>\n<p>The team made measurements and completed the necessary forms, as dolphins are a Fishes Royal &#8211; meaning they belong to the King.<\/p>\n<p>The coastguard rescue team at Hunstanton was tasked to find and record the details of the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the coastguard crew said: \u201cIt was assumed that the tide would carry the carcass further along the coast, so coastguard tape was attached to it in order to prevent further call-outs for BDMLR and the coastguard to the same cetacean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rthmb\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=\" http:=\"\" viewbox=\"0 0 1600 1200\" alt=\"The dead dolphin was found on Heacham beach. Picture: Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Team\/Matt Curtis\" data-root=\"\/_media\/img\/\" data-path=\"COF3T41D0B2YBHTYB6U0.jpg\" data-ar=\"1.33\"\/>The dead dolphin was found on Heacham beach. Picture: Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Team\/Matt Curtis<\/p>\n<p>Humber Control was informed and the team was stood down.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week, the coastguard team has also dealt with incidents involving a broken ankle at Old Hunstanton beach, a kite surfer in difficulty in Hunstanton, and a person experiencing chest pains at Holkham Gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead dolphin was found on a beach last week. The mammal was discovered on Heacham South Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[933,728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-789155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116134183182936222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}