The third of three dolphins came to the shores of Beaufort County S.C. Sunday in Sands Beach in the area's Battery Creek section NBC television affiliate WCBD reported Wednesday and updated Monday.
Officials found the second in Hilton Head's Sea Pines section, and have now started to look into the case in order to find out what is causing the dolphins to perish.
The process is reportedly expected to take a long time for scientists to come to a consensus about what happened since data needs to be sent in for examination WCBD reported.
Department of Natural Resources officials such as Al Segar feels the dolphins might have become sick with morbillivirus or a disease that sickens humans with measles, distemperment in dogs, coyotes, wolves, and seals, rinderpest in cattle, and peste-des-petits-ruminants in goats and sheep according to information on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries website.
"Find out what's wrong. There's evidently been quite a few along the South Carolina coast this year," Susan Trogdon a resident of Beaufort County told WCBD.
"They said something about a virus, but the ones locally are concerning, because these are our waters and our fish that we eat. We need to find out what it is," Trogdon told WCBD.
The scene has reportedly caused quite the concern around the area the dolphins were found.
"It seemed like there was something going on that needed to be checked into. It was very sad. I definitely was concerned and shocked. It was sad. We sat there with it while we tried to get our location to give to DNR," Trogdon told WCBD.
Trogdon found the third dolphin when she was kayaking in the Harbour River waters.
According to television station WRDW, another dolphin was found in May River Thursday located in Bluffton, S.C.
