STUART — Lisa Stukel was working at the Pelican Café downtown Monday afternoon when she learned of a visitor in need.
While Stukel, 25, of Port St. Lucie, was on-duty as a cook at the cafe, a manatee ensnared in something swam close to the restaurant dock and got stuck between the dock and a column of the Roosevelt Bridge.
A diner saw the manatee in the water near the docks to the west of the café building and told Stukel’s friend and co-worker, Stephanie Grigsby, a server working the diner’s table.
The large manatee was ensnared in what looked to Stukel like a cast net and it was thrashing in the water. A smaller manatee was swimming close to it, she said.
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