Ridgway, 86, died in his Point Loma home in July
Over a more than 60-year career, Dr. Sam Ridgway created a legacy as a pioneer in marine mammal medicine and science and a foundation for their conservation, particularly with his discoveries about bottlenose dolphins.
He developed dolphin anesthesia and other marine mammal medicines, as well as techniques to study the animals’ hearing where no data existed previously. He pioneered methods for studying them while they swam freely in the open ocean. After moving to California, he became the attending veterinarian for the Navy’s marine mammals. In the early 1960s, he helped found the Navy’s Marine Mammal Program — a classified program to study the complexity and intelligence of dolphins, their sonar skills and their ability to descend to dizzying depths.
During that time, Ridgway had formed a bond with an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Tuffy, the Navy’s first domesticated dolphin, which he had worked closely with and which would later become the subject of his book “The Dolphin Doctor.” “I could email him a question about anything, and he would have both an entertaining response but also have some insight into something that had happened 40 years ago that was helpful to know,” she said.As a leader in his field, Ridgway founded various organizations and served on the boards of numerous scientific committees., a San Diego-based nonprofit recognized as a leader in mammal science, medicine and conservation.
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