A Florida aquarium has created a legacy for its famed Winter the Dolphin following her recent death, including an ongoing memorial and virtual reality encounters with the star of the Dolphin Tale movies.
The Clearwater Marine Aquarium announced Friday that Winter’s legacy will include an ongoing memorial, a funding endowment, a special song and a plan to release the animal’s cremated ashes in the Gulf of Mexico.at age 16 of an inoperable intestinal problem. She was rescued in December 2005 along Florida’s East Coast after her tail became caught in a crab trap rope. The tail had to be amputated.
The uplifting story of her recovery using an unprecedented prosthetic tail was the subject of the two Dolphin Tale films in 2011 and 2014, making the marine mammal a hero to people with disabilities and chronic illnesses around the world.James “Buddy” Powell, president of the aquarium, said the virtual reality experience will allow people beginning in January to interact with Winter even though she’s gone. It was built on videos and photos taken of Winter throughout her life.
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