![]() Then CMA, already in financial peril, is heavily damaged by a hurricane. Meanwhile, Kyle gets more depressed when his friend and swimming partner, Donovan Peck, beats Kyle's old swimming records. McCarthy manufactures a "homemade" model tail while waiting for the real one to arrive, but Winter rejects it by banging it against the pool wall. McCarthy agrees to do so and convinces his prosthetic supplier Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics to supply the parts at no cost. McCarthy if he could make a prosthetic tail for Winter. Not wanting to upset Sawyer, Kyle takes Sawyer for a walk and explains his situation and that he needs some time. Sawyer and his mother visit Kyle there, but Sawyer is insulted when Kyle asks them to leave. Sawyer is excited to see him, but devastated when Kyle skips his own welcoming party and stays at the local Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where Doctor Cameron McCarthy develops prosthetic limbs. News comes that Kyle has been injured in an explosion and is returning home for treatment. Winter learns to swim without a tail by developing a side-to-side motion like a fish, but after an X-ray, Clay notices the unnatural motion is causing stress on her spine, which if continued will disable and eventually kill her. However, Winter's tail is damaged and must be amputated. Clay allows the visits to continue, and Lorraine withdraws Sawyer from summer school and lets him volunteer at CMA, and gives him a new wetsuit. Clay are hesitant, since Sawyer does not have any experience with marine animals, and since Sawyer is skipping summer school without permission, but they realize that the friendship seems to benefit both Winter and Sawyer. Sawyer sneaks in to see Winter, and later starts to visit each day, being harassed by a crazy pelican named Rufus. ![]() ![]() Clay's daughter Hazel names the dolphin Winter, after two prior dolphins, Summer and Autumn, had been treated successfully and returned to the ocean. The dolphin is taken for treatment to Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA), run by Doctor Clay Haskett. One day on his way to summer school, Sawyer finds a fisherman attempting to help an injured dolphin tangled in a crab trap. His only friend is his cousin Kyle, a champion swimmer who hopes to compete in the Olympics. Sawyer Nelson, a lonely 11-year-old boy, has fallen behind in school since being abandoned by his father five years earlier. 3 Differences between the movie and real-life events.
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