Dolphins, just like the birds discussed last week and the squirrels also discussed in a prior post, also have a proven history of government applications for espionage and warfare.
The Naval Marine Mammal Program, which was finally declassified in the 90's, has its origins that go back all the way to 1960.
The program apparently began as a way to study and measure dolphins to apply their characteristics into improving torpedo performance.
This failed due to the technology of the time being able to collect the data needed and the program switched instead into training and learning about using the dolphins themselves.
As government tools.
In 1962 at Point Mugu, California a research facility was built where the intention was to study the dolphins' senses and capabilities, such as their natural sonar and deep-diving physiology, and to determine how dolphins and sea lions might be used to perform useful tasks, such as searching for and marking objects in the water.
In 1965 A Navy dolphin named Tuffy participated in the SEALAB II project off La Jolla, California, carrying tools and messages between the surface and the habitat 200 feet (60 m) below. Tuffy was also trained to locate and guide lost divers to safety. I agree this is very helpful and sounds pretty safe.
According to Ripley's, By 1967, the program—now known as the Navy Marine Mammal Program, was classified, and its budget was hidden as a black ops program. Not much is known about the program in the ensuing decades, but training bases were set up in San Diego and Hawaii. After pushes for transparency in the 1990s, some details about the program’s activities were revealed and declassified in 1995. By this time, a reported 140 animals were enrolled in the program.
Mostly made up of bottlenose dolphins and sea lions, five marine mammal teams can be deployed at a moment’s notice anywhere around the world. Within 72 hours the animals and their handlers can be launched from ships, aircraft, or land vehicles. Most recently, Navy marine mammals have served as mine hunters. Even with 60 years of advancement in sonar and radar, dolphins’ natural sonar proves to be much more sensitive to searching for objects in the open ocean. Likewise, sea lions have excellent low-light vision underwater and are more maneuverable than even the most experienced divers.
Now let's look at this coincidence. Do any of you remember the tv show Flipper?
"They call him Flipper, faster than lightninggggg".
Look at the air dates of the show. It first aired in 1964. Then taken off the air in 1967.
THE SAME YEAR THE DOLPHIN PROGRAM WENT BLACK OPS!!
Fast forward to 1995, the same year that the black ops dolphin program was declassified. What happened?
FLIPPER RETURNED TO TELEVISION AS A REMAKE OF THE 1964 SHOW!
Why is there this correlation? Did the government shut down the original show because it was revealing their training techniques? Did they need their trained dolphins and then decided that once the program was declassified they didn't need to hide it any longer? This time correlation twice in history seems too coincidental to ignore.
Annexation of Crimea:
According to The Guardian, when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, they also took their dolphins.
Ukraine's combat dolphins, part of a secret programme that trains sea mammals to carry out military tasks. Now, however, Ukraine is demanding the return of the dolphins, who unlike the naval officers serving on the peninsula, were not given the choice of "defecting" to Russia or travelling to mainland Ukraine to continue serving Kiev.
The Ukrainian military dolphin programme was born out of a Soviet-era scheme that, like much of the Soviet army, fell into neglect in the 1990s. There were reports in 2000 that the dolphins had been sold to Iran.
The programme was resurrected in 2012 by the Ukrainian navy, and the Crimean military dolphin centre is thought to be one of just two in the world, with the other in San Diego serving the US navy, where around 75 dolphins are trained, along with sea lions.
The Russians, however, have big plans for their newest naval recruits. A source told Russian agency RIA Novosti back in March that with Crimea part of Russia, serious investment in dolphin preparation was now on the cards:
"Engineers are developing new aquarium technologies for new programmes to more efficiently use dolphins under water," said the source, telling the agency that dolphins and seals would search for sunken military equipment and detect enemy divers.
"Our specialists developed new devices that convert dolphins' underwater sonar detection of targets into a signal to the operator's monitor. The Ukrainian navy lacked funds for such know-how, and some projects had to be mothballed."
Does Israel now have killer dolphins? Hamas claims they do. According to the Jerusalem Post, in 2022 Israeli security forces used a dolphin to chase Hamas frogman commandos off the coast of the Gaza Strip, the terrorist organization claimed, according to a report by Al-Quds.
During an operation that occurred at an unstated time, Hamas naval operatives were chased into the sea by a dolphin equipped with a device capable of killing the terrorist group's frogmen, an Al-Qassam brigades naval commandos spokesperson revealed in a video:
So what does this all mean?
From the 60's we've discovered the immense intelligence of dolphins and it seems the world has taken advantage of their brainpower and weaponized it across the globe. Are we safe from these underwater weaponized biological torpedos? Have they been brainwashed for decades to become war machines? Will dolphins with their superior intellect learn how to turn the weapons they are outfitted with against us and become like the future of self aware AI that everyone is afraid of? Will these military dolphins affect wild dolphins?
Dolphins brains are larger than human brains. They also have a complex language that they share between their species. They have also been on this planet for 50 million years compared to humans' 300,000 years and evolved from land mammals to live in the ocean.
Astronomer Laurance Doyle used this information to study the communication between a group of dolphins and recording the frequencies. The result was a graph with a slope of -.95, which suggested that dolphin language may include syntax, meaning it nears the complexity of human communication.
I wouldn't be surprised if the superior intelligence and evolution of dolphins allows them to surpass humans as a dominant species one day.
Stay frosty people. Be nice to dolphins.
Until next time,
I am Snickers.
I am truth.
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