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A film based on Winter's story, titled Dolphin Tale, was released September 23, 2011. [16] Winter portrayed herself in the film. [17] The film depicted Winter's rescue and the pioneering of her prosthetic tail. Several modifications were made to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to accommodate her, including a new 80,000-gallon pool. [17]
The book and film are inspired by the true story of Winter, a bottlenose dolphin that was rescued in December 2005 off the Florida coast and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. In the film, Winter loses her tail after becoming entangled with a rope attached to a crab trap, and must be fitted with a prosthetic one in order to swim ...
Dolphin Tale 2 is a 2014 American family film written and directed by Charles Martin Smith as the sequel to his 2011 film Dolphin Tale which in-turn was based on the true story about a rescued bottlenose dolphin named Winter who made her final on-screen appearance in this film before her death in November 2021.
The Tampa Bay Times (at the time the St. Petersburg Times) published a 4-part series in 2008 that chronicled the rescue of an injured baby dolphin. The dolphin had been caught in a crab trap and ...
A prosthetic-tailed dolphin named Winter that starred in the “Dolphin Tale” movies died Thursday evening at a Florida aquarium despite life-saving efforts to treat a gastrointestinal ...
Winter is gone, but her impact on Clearwater Marine Aquarium is forever. Just look around. When staff rescued the baby bottlenose dolphin from a crab trap in Cape Canaveral in late 2005, revenues ...
Winter developed a way to swim without a tail in an unnatural side to side motion, but because this was damaging her spinal cord, a prosthetic tail was made especially for her by Kevin Carroll and a team of experts from Hanger, Inc. Winter starred in the 2011 movie Dolphin Tale and the 2014 sequel Dolphin Tale 2, which was inspired by her story ...
Winter became an international star after the release of the 2011 film about the efforts to fit her with a prosthetic tail. Beloved star of ‘Dolphin Tale’ films dies at 16 at Clearwater ...