Friday, September 30, 2005

Flipper the firing dolphin

This is the post-Katrina story with the highest ThatsQuiteInteresting rating of them all.
Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Their coastal compound in Louisiana was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea.
Divers and surfers risk attack from bottlenose dolphins carrying 'toxic dart' guns.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The navy launched the classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission 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.

I smell a Hollywood screenplay.

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