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Join the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) Whale and Turtle Rescue Team for a disentanglement demonstration at 115 Bradford Street, on the corner of Bradford and Ryder.  Dates and times to be announced.

A member of PCCS Whale and Turtle Rescue Teams will give a short presentation (15 minutes) on disentanglement techniques, equipment, and/or an update on recent rescues. 

Satellite tags, telemetry devices, grapples, hooks, and knives will all be on display.

Since 1984, PCCS has freed more than eighty large whales from life threatening entanglements, using techniques developed by PCCS staff. PCCS is the only organization on the east coast of the United States federally authorized, by National Marine Fisheries Service, to disentangle large, free swimming whales, such as the humpback and the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale*.

Over the years PCCS has also disentangled other marine animals, like dolphins and porpoises, seals and sea turtles.

These presentations are free, open to the public, and appropriate for all ages. 

In the case of rain, presentation will be cancelled.  

Donations are welcome.

* The Center for Coastal Studies is federally-authorized to perform large whale disentanglement under the authority of Scientific Research and Enhancement Permit Number 932-1489, issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service and United States Fish and Wildlife Service under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.

For more information, please contact:

Brian Sharp

bsharp@coastalstudies.org

508-487-3623 x 104