A Navy seal actually a sea lion took less than a minute to find a fake mine under a pier near 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.
The specially trained Navy Marine Mammals, based in San Diego, stole the show in a day of anti-terrorism training exercises held at ports throughout California.
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“Security is of vital importance,” he said. “And humans are very slow in the water. Sea lions can see five times as well. And dolphins can use their sonar to spot items that would take humans days or weeks to find.”
The marine mammal program is several decades old. LaPuzza said dolphins and sea lions were used during the Vietnam War and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
None of the animals have been harmed in the anti-terrorist work. They never have to carry potentially catastrophic mines.
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They called him flipper flipper flipper faster than lightening….. look out and everyone feared we’d be replaced by computers and robots. But this is very interesting and pretty darn neat I must add.
Wonder if any of those guys would be interested in running for office?
So he cuffed him underwater? so that means they had to real him in to take him into custody. this is my kind of fishing, I’m in, where do I sign up?