You are thinking like an American. In Germany, they have an extremely regimented education / work training system. For every possible job description there is a work training program (Berufausbilding) that takes between 2 and 4 years to complete. To qualify for a job, you must have a certificate (Schein) or you are not considered for that job. This is in contrast to the more flexible American system of on-the-job training, and is one if the reasons that the German economy continues to perform so poorly. The German work force is simply not allowed to be flexible.
Maybe claiming that the dolphins may be armed is fear mongering, but they do not have to be armed to be considered dangerous.
In the early '90s I was a graduate student at San Diego State University in the Ecology department. I worked in a lab that specialized in marine plants. We had a project transplanting and monitoring (underwater) eelgrass beds on navy property in San Diego Bay. The eelgrass beds that we transplanted happened to be very near the dolphin pens of the Navy's marine mammal program.
One day when we were about to start our dive when the Navy personnelle ordered us out of the water. It seems one of the dolphins had escaped from it's pen. They did not tell us directly that we were in danger, but they were pretty concerned that we get out of the water quickly. Who knows if they had been trained to attack divers, despite the official claims of the marine mammal program. I personally am not convinced that navy trained dolphins are not a danger to divers. Would you risk diving in an area with escaped dolphins on the loose?
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You are thinking like an American. In Germany, they have an extremely regimented education / work training system. For every possible job description there is a work training program (Berufausbilding) that takes between 2 and 4 years to complete. To qualify for a job, you must have a certificate (Schein) or you are not considered for that job. This is in contrast to the more flexible American system of on-the-job training, and is one if the reasons that the German economy continues to perform so poorly. The German work force is simply not allowed to be flexible.
Maybe claiming that the dolphins may be armed is fear mongering, but they do not have to be armed to be considered dangerous. In the early '90s I was a graduate student at San Diego State University in the Ecology department. I worked in a lab that specialized in marine plants. We had a project transplanting and monitoring (underwater) eelgrass beds on navy property in San Diego Bay. The eelgrass beds that we transplanted happened to be very near the dolphin pens of the Navy's marine mammal program. One day when we were about to start our dive when the Navy personnelle ordered us out of the water. It seems one of the dolphins had escaped from it's pen. They did not tell us directly that we were in danger, but they were pretty concerned that we get out of the water quickly. Who knows if they had been trained to attack divers, despite the official claims of the marine mammal program. I personally am not convinced that navy trained dolphins are not a danger to divers. Would you risk diving in an area with escaped dolphins on the loose?