On 27 April 2017 Oceanario de Lisboa  posted a VIDEO which is supposed to be a showcase of the CRAM centre. 

Tellingly, the tank that we have speculated is likely to be Martinha’s tank, although filled with water, has no dolphin visible and we have checked frame by frame. So WHERE IS MARTINHA?

The ‘island’ that we were uncertain of in the Google Earth images from 2015, is now very obvious and is indeed a concrete obstruction in the center of the tank.  There appears to be no passage through or under the ‘island’ as there are solid walls visible in the video.  There are clearly vents protruding from the surface area of this ‘island’.  Could these be vents for the water filtration system?  If so, then the noise in the tank must be obnoxious to any animal held in there.  Certainly, if this is the same “800m2 surface tank” that the CRAM and ICNF have claimed, then their calculations seem to be wrong and this tank has less than 800m2 and the surface area is severely obstructed.

Additionally, ICNF stated that the new CRAM facility, Martinha would have access to “naturalized housing conditions”.  However, in the fly-over drone and underwater video we can see nothing that remotely resembles such a habitat, rather the tank is nothing more than barren concrete.

COULD THIS BE MARTINHA?

That same video also shows people carrying a dolphin in a stretcher, presumably into the facility.  It also has underwater footage of a Delphinus dolphin, that might be Martinha, covered in a cream.  There is a person standing next to the dolphin and the water is about waist deep.  There is a ‘drop off’ towards deeper water to the right of the dolphin and in the walls, what appears to be underwater viewing windows. 

If this is indeed the same tank that CRAM & ICNF have claimed Martinha has been moved to, it certainly does not have “5 meter depth” over the entire tank, as they have alluded to.  The shadows from the construction photos and the stills from this video indicate that at least a third of the tank is shallow (less than 1.5 m deep) and a third is the ‘drop off’, with the last third at an unknown depth, but perhaps 5 meters deep.  So, it would be logical to ask why CRAM and ICNF have continued to mislead us about the situation with Martinha.
 
So, once again, we are left with no transparency about Martinha's whereabouts or her welfare and we hope that you can help us find this information.

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