Marine Mammal Stranding Center

07/09/2025

Please help nominate the Marine Mammal Stranding Center as the Best Nonprofit Charitable Organization for Best of the Press 2025! 🏆It's easy to do, just open the link, scroll down to the "Services" category, select Best Nonprofit Charitable Organization and select Marine Mammal Stranding Center (or type in our name if it doesn't appear). You can vote once a day per email address, every day through July 30th! Thank you for your support!
https://pressofatlanticcity.com/exclusive/readerschoice/ballot-2025/

07/09/2025

Lots of smiles on MMSC's Family Explorer Cruise aboard Atlantic City Cruises today! 😎 Thank you to all of the families that joined our Education Team for a morning of dockside educational activities and donuts. We were even treated to dolphin smiles courtesy of a large pod of Bottlenose dolphins!🐬 We still have tickets available for your family to join in on the fun on our last program of the summer on Tuesday August 12th! https://www.classy.org/event/family-explorer-cruise-august-12-2025/e657355
Special thanks to Captain Jeff and the crew of Cruisin' 1 for a trip that was WAVES of fun, and Green Whales, Inc. for being our donut sponsor!

07/08/2025

'WOW! Did you see how many Amazon packages were delivered last week!?!?"
We are sending our Seal of Approval 🦭🏆to Joanne, Cynthia, Janice, Stephen, Jennifer, Sandy, Amy, John, MK, Melissa, Sky, Maura, and Lori for donating much-needed items from our Amazon Wish List last week! Thank you for keeping our hospital well-stocked and running smoothly for our patients.❤️

07/07/2025

Why do newborn dolphins have stripes?
Baby dolphins are born with creases called fetal folds on their skin. Fetal folds occur because of the way the unborn calf is compactly positioned inside the womb before birth. As a newborn, these folds are very distinct and easy to spot on the youngster. Over time, the fetal folds gradually fade. Check out this amazing shot of a newborn Bottlenose dolphin calf with very distinct fetal folds, captured by MMSC volunteer Elyse during her internship with Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center 🐬

07/04/2025

Wishing you a safe and happy Independence Day! Enjoy and please watch out for our marine wildlife while you are at the beach or on the water today. If you spot a marine mammal or sea turtle in distress, please call the Marine Mammal Stranding Center's 24-hour Stranding Hotline at 609-266-0538. Thank you!
📷photo credit-Matt Gregg

07/03/2025

MMSC Live Patient Update 🦭Visit with our five seals and see who moved to the BIG pool this week! 🥳

07/03/2025

Look who graduated to the BIG pool! 🦭🎓We are happy to report that yesterday the Stranding Team moved Grey seals #25-034 (Elberon), #25-065 (Long Branch) and #25-071 (Sea Girt) into the pool. The time these patients spend in our 30-foot exercise pool is the next step their rehabilitation journey, bringing them closer to their release back into the wild as they build up those swimming muscles. We hope you enjoy this video of the boys and their first few moments exploring their new digs!

07/02/2025

Join us aboard Atlantic City Cruises to celebrate Christmas in July! Spread some holiday cheer as you enjoy serene back bay views, a Christmas cookie buffet and cash bar. We even hear that Santa is taking a break from his vacation to join us on the boat to help judge the Most Festive Outfit contest, so get your Christmas Hawaiian shirt ready!

Come aboard Atlantic City Cruises to enjoy a relaxing sunset cruise in the back bay of Atlantic City to benefit the Marine Mammal Stranding Center's life-saving efforts with marine mammals and sea turtles!

07/02/2025

That feeling when your pre-release bloodwork is back and Doc clears you to move into the big pool! 🎉 Grey seal #25-065 (Long Branch) is looking clearly excited for this next step in his rehabilitation journey. 🦭

07/01/2025

MMSC's Sea Life Museum SUMMER HOURS🌞
July 2nd-August 10th 🐬 Wed-Sun-10am-2pm
August 15th-31st 🐬 Fri/Sat/Sun- 10am-2pm
We hope to "sea" you here this summer! 😎

07/01/2025

Dolphins are social animals, traveling in groups called pods. Dolphin pods may consist of just a few animals, or number in the hundreds! In New Jersey we are lucky to be visited by pods of migratory Bottlenose dolphins from May through early fall. Summer is calving season, making baby dolphins easy to spot in our waters, traveling with their mothers and other females with calves in nursey pods. This also brings an increased risk to the dolphins as the young calves cannot swim fast enough to avoid quickly approaching watercraft, and could be injured by boats and personal watercraft. Should you be lucky enough to encounter dolphins while spending the day out on the water, please practice safe boating practices around them, reduce your speed and give them plenty of space to keep them safe! 🐬

07/01/2025

REMINDER: Today is the LAST DAY to sign up for our July 9th Family Explorer Cruise aboard Atlantic City Cruises - don't miss the boat for this brand new summer program! 🐬⛱🌊☀
https://mmsc.org/summer-education-programs
Not able to join us next week? Space is still available for our last education program of the summer on August 12th, but is also starting to fill up so don't delay! 🐬