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January 15, 2012 11:05 am

Navy May Use Mine-Detecting Dolphins In the Straight of Hormuz


New submitter cervesaebraciator writes "The Atlantic Wire reports that the Navy has a tested solution to the possible mining of the Straight of Hormuz. The Navy has 80 dolphins in San Diego Bay trained to use their own sonar to detect mines. When they find the mines, the dolphins drop an acoustic transponder nearby, so that human divers might return to defuse it. Retired Adm. Tim Keating cannot say, however, whether the dolphins will be used in the Straight."The Obama administration has reportedly warned Iran that closing the Straight would provoke an American response.

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