Last Katrina Dolphins Rescued

After three weeks in the wild, the last of those dolphins swept out to sea by Hurricane Katrina are back in their unnatural habitat where, Jim Acosta

Eight dolphins wound up in the Gulf of Mexico when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) marine biologist. "We'd gone to approach a number of different animals. Finally, saw one other group and thought, 'Well, let's go just a little bit further.' We went a little bit further, and that was them. So it was a very exciting moment."

Those four were located swimming near the casinos on the Biloxi, Miss., coast.

They were hurried into saltwater pools, where they'll be quarantined until they're deemed in good health. They're said to be a bit battered and bruised, but generally in good shape.

Says Moby Solangi, the oceanarium's president, "They couldn't talk. They didn't have FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency). So we were their FEMA. As they are priceless, so was the effort."

They may just be a bunch of far-flung flippers but, as one government scientist told Acosta, their rescue is a little bit of good news in a lot of bad news out of the Gulf Coast.