FLORIDA MANATEE SPRUNG FROM PLANT INTAKE PIPE.Byline: Phil Long Knight-Ridder Newspapers After a skin-scratching, high-speed tumble through a massive sea water intake pipe, and a daylong swim in a nuclear power plant cooling pond A cooling pond is a man-made body of water primarily formed for the purpose of providing cooling water for a nearby power plant. Many such lakes have secondary outdoor recreational purposes that include fishing, swimming, boating, camping and picnicking. , a frisky frisk·y adj. frisk·i·er, frisk·i·est Energetic, lively, and playful: a frisky kitten. frisk young manatee named Kiera is back in the wilds of the Indian River Indian River, lagoon, c.100 mi (160 km) long, E Fla., parallel to the east coast from N of Titusville to Stuart. Along the lagoon a variety of citrus and vegetable products are grown and transported by small boats to towns on its waterway and those further inland. . Even as Sea World and state divers, doctors and biologists scurried late last week to put out the net that would eventually capture and then free the stranded sea cow sea cow: see sirenian. sea cow or Steller's sea cow Extinct aquatic mammal (Hydrodamalis gigas) that lived around islands in the Bering Sea. It was discovered in 1741 and described by a member of Vitus Bering's expedition. , the gentle creature played cat-and-mouse with them, surfacing within mere feet of the workers at least four times in 25 minutes. ``She's just checking us out,'' a diver said with a laugh as others slowly drew smaller the dark green net that surrounded the manatee. Gently, the workers pulled the net closer to the bank, drawing the manatee closer. Soon she was theirs. She was immediately named Kiera in honor of the plant manager's daughter. The Sea World crew slipped a bright blue canvas stretcher underneath the dark brown manatee, then removed the tangled net. They were repaid with an occasional salt water shower when Kiera thrashed the water with her massive tail. When the stretcher was in place, Kiera was hoisted by an FPL crane up a 25-foot embankment to the tailgate A conversion layer that lets IDE devices connect to the IEEE 1394 Firewire interface. of a truck that Sea World uses as an ambulance for such rescues. |
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