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The research vessel Martha Jane glided slowly across the teal waters of Sarasota Bay on Florida’s Gulf Coast under a cloudless sky.
“There’s 2094!” one of the scientists on the boat called out. “She’s still with us!”
The bottlenose dolphin known to researchers as 2094 had been the focus of a dramatic rescue from a fishing line a year ago.
Number 2094 is one of thousands of dolphins registered in the Sarasota Dolphin Research Programme’s database, each individual identified by the