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Originally Posted by tecoyah
heres a bit on the use of marine mammals by the US navy....interesting stuff:
"The U.S. Navy made military history Wednesday when it sent trained dolphins swimming into the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr to help minesweepers clear the Persian Gulf of explosives and open the way for allied cargo ships and humanitarian aid.
Two bottlenose dolphins deployed from the transport ship Ponce are among an unspecified number of the marine mammals sent from San Diego by the Navy to the region this week to safeguard allied vessels from mines and other dangers, the Navy said.
They may soon be joined by California sea lions trained to locate and snare enemy divers who are then reeled in by U.S. forces. A "platoon" of sea lions has been in Bahrain for two months and could see action soon, a Navy spokesman said. "
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...7/MN291465.DTL |
Reminds me of Jones, the dolphin in Johnny Mnemonic:
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He was more than a dolphin, but from another dolphin's point of view he might have seemed like something less. I watched him swirling sluggishly in his galvanized tank. Water slopped over the side, wetting my shoes. He was surplus from the last war. A cyborg.
He rose out of the water, showing us the crusted plates along his sides, a kind of visual pun, his grace nearly lost under armor, clumsy and prehistoric. Twin deformities on either side of his skull had been engineered to house sensor units. Silver lesions gleamed on exposed sections of his gray-white hide.
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