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Watch: Sea Lion Rescued Off Dana Point

The finale features a sea lion cuddle party suitable for calendars!

A crew from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach on Wednesday rescued a sick sea lion—since nicknamed Abby—that beached herself on some rocks at Strands Beach in Dana Point.

Yep, Abby was stranded at Strands.

Rescuers used a GoPro video camera to record the whole thing from a first-person perspective.

The PMMC reports that Abby is now resting "with her other pen-mates/characters, McGee, Franks, TonyD, Gibbs, Ziva and Ducky."

Apparently those are all names of characters on the TV show NCIS ...

Bonus shots of a sea lion cuddle party at the end of the video!

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Cheri Miller June 16, 2013 at 12:16 pm
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Martin Henderson (Editor) June 17, 2013 at 01:43 am
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Oops, I hit return before I wanted: Here are the links (although the video did not transfer with theRead More onslaught of Patch 2.0: http://ranchosantamargarita.patch.com/groups/volunteering/p/on-flag-day-they-go-out-in-a-blaze-of-old-glory and here is the other: http://ranchosantamargarita.patch.com/groups/summer/p/flags-retired-in-a-blaze-of-old-glory
Richard Oakley June 10, 2013 at 07:40 am
My wife Gail and I were honored to volunteer at Ranchofest with fine young Marines from the 2/5 atRead More Camp Pendleton. America is in good hands with these young soldiers!! Hoo rah!!
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