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Kelly the dolphin is placed in a temporary saltwater pool.
Kelly the dolphin is placed in a temporary saltwater pool in a facility at Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, Miss., on Sept. 17, 2005. Kelly has spent the last two and a half weeks in the Gulf of Mexico with four other dolphins who escaped when Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home at the Marine Life Oceanarium in Gulfport. The aboveground pool, along with other necessary filtration equipment needed to care for sea mammals, was provided by U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program personnel from San Diego, Calif. Department of Defense units are mobilized as part of Joint Task Force Katrina to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster-relief efforts in the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.