According to this site there was an attempt at training dolphins for “swimmer nullification.” The dolphins would basically be equipped with C0-2 guns.
I’ve heard this same story from another source which said that the “gun” was put on the dolphin’s snout. When the dolphin rammed a diver, it would shoot out the CO-2.
Who needs lasers when we can make your insides blow out of your ass?
Of course, a tuna net is dolphin kryptonite.
monkeys. cool.
What’s so special about moneys? Bet I could train a herd of cows to detonate mines 
Monkeys!
I covered this story - the dolphins were so cute!
They are trained not to approach mines, but to leave markers nearby, to minimise risk to themselves. Obviously a lot of time, money and effort goes into training these animals,so they are arguably less expendable than troops (from an operational if not a moral perspective).
The dolphins are used because they have in-built sonar. The sea floor where the mines are is pitch black and muddy, and it’s near impossible for divers to safely detect many of the mines using visual means.
Quote from Lt Commander John Herriman, Royal Navy diver:
*“It’s hard graft for the guys in the water. The diving conditions are appalling. There’s tidal streams, visibility is pretty much nil and the sea bed is just thick mud – one or two metres of mud – and they’re having to crawl through that, looking up and down the pylons under the berths to find anything that’s down there.” *
I can only believe the dolphins know what they’re doing and the inherent danger involved. If they’re just trained to find a hot mine and put a beacon on it to get a fish - that wouldn’t be fair.
How is this going to work?
One monkey running ahead of an armoured column. He gets blown up, and they know there are mines ahead.
Or: There is a field with 100 mines in it. Allies release 100 monkeys and wait a while.
Great news, with dolphin-kind added to the Coalition of the Willing who can any longer doubt the cause of Operation Piss Off the World (with thanks to the Onion)?
I would think it more likely that the monkeys have been trained to find and pick up mines, then trigger them (probably by hiding food items inside dummy mines that are opened by bashing them or some such).
See Rumsfeld and Blair feeling chipper,
Their resources just became hipper.
…In addition to drones,
…And radiophones,
They’ve learned how to utilize Flipper.
don’t quit your day job, december.
I heard somewehere once, that Dolphins were used to attache bombs to submarines (don’t ask me how they did it), but that the dolphins, after seeing what the bombs would do, refused to co-operate!
is this true? Has anyone else heard this story? Where can i find a link?
thanks
Now you tell me, 6 months after retirement. 
I haven’t read the full story yet, but apparently they DO have a moral code…
“If an intruder was located then they would ‘report back’ to their handlers, acting as an effective early warning system. The Soviets, however, gave this apparently benign activity a potentially fatal twist. Its ‘guards’ would carry a titanium clamp on a harness, and be trained to simply bump into any diver they found before returning to raise the alarm. The clamp was designed to attach itself to the diver when the dolphin bumped him in a way that it could not be removed, and in it was a device about the size of a table tennis ball capable of injecting the high-pressure charge of CO2 into the diver’s body. This was not done immediately, however, because the preference was to take any intruders alive. Only if a search failed to locate the enemy, or force him to the surface, was the device activated remotely…
‘As the commander there said to me: “That would bring him to the surface,” ’ says Cartlidge, imitating a Ukrainian accent ‘It would, of course. But it would be with his guts spewing out both ends.’ Delightful. And friendly ‘Flipper’ would know nothing about it.”
[sub] I KNEW they were smart! [/sub]
I don’t have too much of an objection to ‘employing’ dolphins so long as they are treated humanely…
What I object to is the haphazard way that the older ‘soldiers’ are retired…
Cannot they be retrained to go back into the wild, released in pods??
Hey, man - Flipper did it!
:rolleyes:
Actually, that was a pretty good limerick. One of his best.
MSU 1978 says:
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You mean, a freedom poodle, don’t you?
::d&r::
This has to be one of the funniest damn threads ever in GD.
God bless the dolphins!!