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Marine Mammals Used To Fight Terrorism

Posted by samzenpus on from the jones-the-enhanced-dolphin dept.

pinkstuff writes "The Navy unveiled its terror-fighting marine mammals at a two-day homeland security and disaster preparedness exercise in California this week. From the article: 'A Navy seal — actually a sea lion — took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near San Francisco's AT&T Park. A dolphin quickly located a terrorist lurking in the black water before another sea lion, using a device carried in its mouth, cuffed the pretend saboteur's ankle so authorities could reel him in.' Queue the 'frickin lasers' jokes."

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  1. Cute application, but why? by BobMcD · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a truly novel approach, but what kind of sophisticated aqua-terrorists are we genuinely preparing to encounter?

    9/11 was civilian aircraft, Oklahoma City was a Rider truck, and the attack on the USS Cole was a rubber raft.

    Color me stupid, but it seems that stealthy and/or sophisticated attacks are absolutely not the point of terrorism. They don't seem to be trying to show that they are worthy James Bond villains, but rather that an attack could materialize out of the simplest and most common things.

    But nice job with the seals and dolphins. Good luck with the sharks and the lasers.