` ` Louie '' the dolphin washed up on Louisiana 's Sunset Beach in 1989 . You shed tears , '' Kelley says , `` You put five months into this animal , his rehab and seeing him everyday and taking care of him . He was covered in oil , the result of the massive Gulf oil spill five years earlier . He learned to swim again at an aquatic center in New Orleans . He was moved to the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys .
` ` Louie '' the dolphin washed up on Louisiana 's Sunset Beach in 1989 . He was covered in oil , the result of the massive Gulf oil spill five years earlier . He learned to swim again at an aquatic center in New Orleans . He was moved to the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys .