Dolphin Tale (2011) and Dolphin Tale 2 (2014) are films based on the true story of Winter, a bottle-nose dolphin rescued off the coast of Florida and taken in by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where she is fitted with a prosthetic tail after losing her natural tail after becoming entangled in a crab trap rope. https://youtu.be/eCr3Ow2Z0uk Scenes from Winter's incredible true story can be seen on the Clearwater Marine Aquarium's website. There is film of the actual rescue, and viewers can follow her through the hardships of losing her tail, learning to swim without one, and then swimming with her