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Kelly Cluckey, wearing a black and blue wetsuit and black face mask, kneels beside manatee #2128 a boney female sea cow lying motionless inside the round rehab pool at Orlando s SeaWorld. A planked floor lifts the emaciated creature above the water line. Number 2128 can t keep afloat, so she can t breathe on her own in water deeper than her torso. She s constantly sinking.
Like the rest of her kind, #2128 would surely perish without human intervention, and
Cluckey and the other SeaWorld staff are frantic to save her and hundreds of other suffering manatees. This year s been an all-hands-on-deck triage for SeaWorld and Florida s other manatee rehab centers.