Four local men finally took their own 16-foot boat, rammed it up on the ice, jumped out and began hacking a channel to the open sea...
"You'd hear them crying, every night," said one of the men in the boat, Rodney Rice, 39. "I went down there last night and you could hear them trying to break up more ice. . . . They wouldn't have lasted another day."
"I had a floater suit on," said Banks, "And they would come up and rest their head on me and I would keep their head out of the water so they can breathe through their blowhole."
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1307832
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.
Naysayers can blow it out their blowhole.
"So long, and thanks for all the fish."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnWciiGf--k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fmx_2fPLhA
On a sad note, they're not expected to survive - even in open water:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I81jzlxuL10
It is very sweet though, even I had an 'aaaaaw, dolphins' moment.