swimming with the dolphins

Not many people get to swim with Winter the dolphin.  Actually it's been two.  A British boy with no legs is the second to do so.  He lost both legs when he was just a baby because of meningitis.  His father never wanted that to keep him from doing the things that he loved.  Winter was the star in "Dolphin Tale" and from the moment that Cieran Kelso saw the movie, he was excited about a dolphin who was disabled just like him.  Cieran's father got together enough money for a flippers for his son to wear in the water.  They made the trip to Florida to meet Winter but didn't tell Cieran that he was going to swim with the dolphin.  So many things could make that impossible and they didn't want to get his hopes up.  But swim they did!  For over an hour they enjoyed the water together even being joined by Winter's sister and Cieran's 5 year old sister for a while.  The boy no longer wants to be a train diver when he grows up, he wants to go back and take care of Winter. 

swimming with Winter