It was 6 AM on a chili morning when I heard on the marine radio that three whales where dying on the beach of Tortuga Bay. For almost 30 minutes I ran to get there and see what was happening. When I arrived, I found tree huge dolphins on the beach, they where in a bad condition, nobody knew how long they had been there.

Personnel of the National Park Service, and the Charles Darwin Research Station started to work to free the dolphins and return them to the water again.

Nobody knows for sure why the dolphins were there, some biologist say that dolphins loose their sense of orientation, for some reason, so that's why they crash against beaches and shore cliffs.

Two dolphins where on the sand, but the other one was on top of lava rocks, its skin was all torn apart, a really bad spectacle. Blood was all over the water, and the biologists were afraid because all that bay is full or sharks, and even though Galapagos sharks don't attack humans, nobody knew what could happen with all that blood in the water.

One of the dolphins that was on the sand was driven back to the sea and was safe, the other one that was also on the sand died. The last dolphin to be rescued was the one on top of the lava rocks. Everybody was trying to help, for almost an hour the desperate dolphin bounced on top of the rocks hurting itself more and more. Finally, the tide went up and the personnel of the National Park Service was able to free the dolphin. It was necessary to tie the dolphin to a boat to take it to deeper water. It was a well done job, two out of three dolphins were saved.