Deadly dolphins on the loose
p2p OT news / p2pnet:- Thirty-six military dolphins carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns and trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, could be on the loose in the Gulf of Mexico, freed by Hurricane Katrina.
Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises say divers and surfers risk attack, says the Guardian Unlimited, going on, The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea.
It`s vital the dolphins are caught quickly, says Leo Sheridan, an accident investigator who`s worked for government and industry and who says he`s received intelligence from sources close to the US government’s marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped, according to the Guardian.
My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises, the story has him saying.
If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire, he said. The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?
A classified US Navy Cetacean Intelligence Mission was started in San Diego in 1989, where dolphins, fitted with harnesses and small electrodes planted under their skin, were taught to patrol and protect Trident submarines in harbour and stationary warships at sea, says the Guardian, adding:
Criticism from animal rights groups ensured the use of dolphins became more secretive. But the project gained impetus after the Yemen terror attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Dolphins have also been used to detect mines near an Iraqi port.
In a The Observer story, “Sheridan explained how, in 1989, the Navy began its classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission,” says the Earth Island Journal. “The San Diego-based operation involved fitting dolphins with neck harnesses that pressed small electrodes into their skin.
“The animals were taught to recognize and drown enemy divers. The dolphins could be remotely monitored and controlled via electric signals transmitted through the neck harness. In order to prevent the dolphins and the Navy’s technology from falling into the wrong hands, a small explosive charge was planted in the harness on the underside of the animal’s neck.”
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See:-
military dolphins – Dolphins of War
Guardian Unlimited – Armed and dangerous – Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina, September 25, 2005
Earth Island Journal – Did US Navy Order Dolphin Deaths?
September 26th, 2005 at 3:29 pm
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. Laugh because it is yet another example of how fucked up the US government and military are, cry because it is blatant animal cruelty and yet they get away with it.
I wonder what a dolphin would reply (if they could) if asked:
“Would you like to be an assassin for the US Military when you grow up?”
September 26th, 2005 at 5:24 pm
How do you know he wouldn’t say “Hell yeah, sounds like fun!”…?
September 26th, 2005 at 6:02 pm
The point is they are given no choice. I think it’s cruel as well. These are intelligent animals, which are being exploited for military purposes.
The goverments should be banned from doing this stuff, it makes me sick.
September 26th, 2005 at 6:58 pm
yeah
September 26th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
Why were they even ‘armed’ if they were in their ‘quarters’ on the base? Except for MPs sidearms, the military (for the most part) prohibits weapons being brought into a service member’s on-base quarters within CONUS, unless it’s a specific part of an exercise or under other exceptional circumstances.
The safest thing for the dolphins would have been for them to have been ‘disarmed’ and sent out to sea, where instinctually they would have sought the appropriate shelter from being caught up in the storm. Keeping them penned up vastly increased the risk of them being harmed or killed. They all would have returned to the base after the danger of the storm had passed, just as they’d been conditioned to do.
–TG
September 27th, 2005 at 7:27 am
Lighten up guys, I’m sure they weren’t released on porpoise.
Sorry, my taxi’s here.
September 27th, 2005 at 7:54 am
stop being a bitch, animals are four our fucking use… i hate you god damned tree huggers that think they have the same rights as humans… THEY DONT! If i wanna hit my dog, I will… If I wanna skin my cat alive, I will… If I wanna put fuckin dart guns on my dolphins and train them to kill Al Queida (who actually need death), then I fuckin will! Stop being such bitches and just accept it…..
Im gunna go now and fuck my wife, shoot my dog, and burn down my local forest.
September 27th, 2005 at 10:35 am
No matter how many animals you injure or exploit, it won’t change the fact that your wife is still not satisfied by your lack of girth and insecure, hypermasculine bedroom manners.
Just thought you should know.
September 27th, 2005 at 1:33 pm
I dont think that animals and people are on the same level either. I think that animals should be respected in a higher regard because they can co-inhabit the earth without distroying it. I am not a tree hugging hippie, but explain this to me… Why is it that the government studies the actions and life patterns of various species to better determine how they can exhist and not overpopulate certain areas? Because they probably realize that we are a species that keeps reproducing at an alarming rate and we have finite resources. For the individual with the foul mouth, finite resources means that eventually we will run out.
On a lighter note, I doubt this story is true.
September 27th, 2005 at 10:03 pm
You all are sooooo funny. Can’t you see this story is total bull shit? It would be nice though to have a few porpi (sp?) keeping people away from the gulf coast. I live there and any thing that thins out the crowd is a good thing. lol
Dolphin ftw!
September 27th, 2005 at 10:10 pm
WHY doesn’t homeland insecurity assign a herd of to patrol the RIO GRANDE?
September 27th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
This story is true I heard it on Coast to Coast Am (coasttocoastam.com)
September 28th, 2005 at 3:59 am
I would just like to point out that most species have natural predators that keep their population in check, we dont. It is likely that we will reach the maximum amount the planet can hold then have a drastic drop in population due to lack of resources until we either become extinct or drop enough to where we fall back in balance and osilate (sp?) with nature.
September 28th, 2005 at 4:17 am
i believe this story because i think the military is stupid and irresponsible enough to do something like this without thinking hmm what if the dolphins do excape. i also think the gov’t is heartless enough to bring these peaceful creaturs into our problems where as all they most likely wanna do is chill out and eat fish all day. you know why dolphins are better than people??? because they dont find reasons to kill each other and also they dont want to hurt anything else unless in defense. but no we come along and say “hey dolphins come here just because we dont think of any one but ourselves we want you to carry these guns and fight in our wars and if you dont do it we will brain wash you so you will.” i think because it is in the dolphins nature to be a peaceful animal they were treated cruelly to become what they are now. and what sucks even more is now if we can get the millitary to stop this stupid shit these poor dolphins have to be put to sleep. another example of the gov’ts being american idiots
September 28th, 2005 at 9:20 am
People, people, please. I dont care if you DID hear this on coast to coast am. Does that make it true? NOT. I was there, these dolphins belonged to the oceanarium that was destroyed by Katrina. They werent but 1/2 mile from the facility. The navy was not even there as WE brought the dolphins back in. The ONLY thing the navy did was provide some pools to put the dolphins in after they were brought in. People are so quick to believe everything they hear or read. Some guy in France has reliable information on whats going on, on the coast? Hardly. This guy is a nutjob with no credability at all. Like I said, I was there for the whole thing, was in the water with the animals, there are no poison darts, no collars and no Navy. hmmmm then again, when was the last time terrorists struck the mississippi gulf coast? gimme a break
September 28th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
LMFAO!!…. this just made my day…
October 1st, 2005 at 11:10 pm
I would just like to point out that most species have natural predators that keep their population in check, we dont. It is likely that we will reach the maximum amount the planet can hold then have a drastic drop in population due to lack of resources until we either become extinct or drop enough to where we fall back in balance and osilate (sp?) with nature.
That is unless the dolphins get us first.
October 2nd, 2005 at 6:27 am
to be fair, dolphins ARE one of the only other species besides man that is known to premediatedly murder or rape others of the same species, IIRC. they’re not exactly “peaceful”. they may seem playful and happy, but they’re mean little bastards. cute though.
lol at how many RE:’s there are in this message title
October 13th, 2005 at 9:14 pm