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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. Dophins trained to kill by Quato · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's the Iranian Kamakaze Dolphins you have to worry about!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/670551.stm