Florida family rescues beached dolphin

A Jacksonville family rescued a beached dolphin last weekend.

George Heheman and his daughter were out on their boat when they saw a dolphin stuck in just four inches of water on a sandbar near Fort George Island.

"It was just flapping and it looked really helpless so we stopped the boat to see what was going on," Ware told WJXT-TV.

Heheman and Ware dragged the 300-pound mammal back into the water while Kerry's 11-year-old son, Justin, capture the entire ordeal on camera.

"She fought us at first, and then I don't know whether she realized what we were doing or not, but she quit," Heheman told ABC News.

As they pulled the dolphin off the sandbar, Justin yelled that there was a baby dolphin in a tidal creek nearby.

Heheman and Ware directed the baby back to its freed mother.

"It was so sweet," Ware told ABC News. "I was just beaming from ear to ear and we'd just sit for the rest of the day saying, 'I can't believe we just did that.' It was such an amazing experience."

Watch the rescue below.