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| Posted By: JC Posted On: Mar 27, 2003 Views: 560 | RE: domesticated dolphins Dolphin Lover, you are sitting on this cloud. What do you have to support your claims. I am telling you I kept drug sniffing dogs and that is exactly what they do, become dependent of those drugs. Don't be so naive. Keep thinking they are used in suicide missions, doesn't matter, I know the truth. Go hug a tree and wipe your butt with leaves or something. |
| Posted By: pearsale Posted On: Mar 28, 2003 Views: 557 | RE: domesticated dolphins wow dolphin lover you are about the biggest tree hugger that i have ever heard. i will present you with facts about the dolphins that we train then will you shut up you liberial In an effort to clear deadly mines from the waters around Iraq, coalition naval forces are using underwater, flippered friends equipped with cameras and specially trained to spot mines. The lurking explosives are a threat for the military patrolling Iraqi waters, but these underwater searchers are helping divers ensure that the coastline is free of danger for humanitarian aid shipments on the way to the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. On Thursday, thanks in part to the dolphins, the first shipments of aid reached the shores of Iraq. Dolphins are trained in swimmer defense, meaning they look for enemy divers, and in mine hunting, according to Tom LaPuzza, public affairs officer for the Navy's Marine Mammal The dolphins will use their sonar to seek out mines, which may have been planted on the seabed by Iraqis. Regular sonar hardware is less effective than the mammals' highly tuned natural abilities, LaPuzza said. And U.S. Navy Captain Mike Tillotson said the safety of the mammals, coming all the way from San Diego, Calif., is a top priority. "They were flown over on a military animal transporter in fleece-lined slings," Tillotson said. "We keep them in a certain amount of water. They travel very well." The dolphins have been trained not to make contact with the mines but to place a marker near them. Human divers remove the mines. One Dolphin is predeicted to find and help us locate 1,000 mines. please read the facts next time you state you opinion stupid Alex Pearson 10 grade |
| Posted By: pearsale Posted On: Mar 28, 2003 Views: 557 | RE: domesticated dolphins dolphin lover you don't have any facts about what you are talking about you stupid tree hugger. i will provide you with some facts In an effort to clear deadly mines from the waters around Iraq, coalition naval forces are using underwater, flippered friends equipped with cameras and specially trained to spot mines. The lurking explosives are a threat for the military patrolling Iraqi waters, but these underwater searchers are helping divers ensure that the coastline is free of danger for humanitarian aid shipments on the way to the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. On Thursday, thanks in part to the dolphins, the first shipments of aid reached the shores of Iraq. Dolphins are trained in swimmer defense, meaning they look for enemy divers, and in mine hunting, according to Tom LaPuzza, public affairs officer for the Navy's Marine Mammal The dolphins will use their sonar to seek out mines, which may have been planted on the seabed by Iraqis. Regular sonar hardware is less effective than the mammals' highly tuned natural abilities, LaPuzza said. And U.S. Navy Captain Mike Tillotson said the safety of the mammals, coming all the way from San Diego, Calif., is a top priority. "They were flown over on a military animal transporter in fleece-lined slings," Tillotson said. "We keep them in a certain amount of water. They travel very well." The dolphins have been trained not to make contact with the mines but to place a marker near them. Human divers remove the mines. K-Dog, the bottle-nosed dolphin pictured, is part of the multinational Commander Task Unit 55.4.3 and is conducting missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and will continue to patrol the waters off Iraq. The U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program began in about 1960 when Navy scientists began studying the mammals' hydrodynamics in hopes of improving torpedo, ship and submarine designs, according to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Web site. Soon researchers found that dolphins and sea lions had other assets that would be helpful to the military -- dolphin sonar is unmatched by man-made equipment, and sea lions are used because of their sensitive underwater directional hearing and low-light level vision. The Navy holds that the dolphins are well cared for. "They are operating in their natural environment. Mines don't go off when dolphins go by them," said LaPuzza. "The environment is not dangerous." The dolphins are accompanied by their military handlers, Navy civilian trainers and veterinarians. it is said these dolphins will find thousands of mines |
| Posted By: jsohn Posted On: Mar 28, 2003 Views: 556 | RE: domesticated dolphins The only thing I can say is, if you want to be taken seriously "Pearsale", you should edit your work next time. Or get someone else to. Where's your information from and how are you sure it is accurate? If you are in 10th grade it is my guess you aren't involved in the actual process... |
| Posted By: Nature Girl Posted On: Apr 1, 2003 Views: 551 | RE: RE: domesticated dolphins I think domesticating ANY wild animal is crual and unfair to the animal. |
| Posted By: Jacob Anderson Posted On: Dec 2, 2003 Views: 549 | RE: domesticated dolphins a few comments Pearsale to the rescue again Tuna, they would be omni, and a torpedo versiomn of the LRM would be used Dolphin lover, you are blind, if you read CBS, CNN, FOX, NEw York Times, or any major news paper, you will learn the truth oh and nature girl, read up or shut up |
| Posted By: Jacob Anderson Posted On: Dec 2, 2003 Views: 548 | RE: domesticated dolphins Dolphin Lover, for a conservative, i love the enviroment, but you are telling only lies and giving the rest of us envriomentalists a bad, name. be glad this isnt a court hearing |
| Posted By: pearsale Posted On: Dec 10, 2003 Views: 545 | RE: domesticated dolphins i will tell you there are a lot of pot smokeing hippies out there. NEWS FLASH THE 60's are over. the military would not spend millions of dollars just to blow up a dolphin. i am only 17 right now and the second that i turn 18 i am joining the military to defend this great country of ours because we have freedom and we can sit at our homes watchinig the matrix eating cheatos we sould defend our country for what we belive in. |
| Posted By: Kathryne Kimball Posted On: Feb 23, 2005 Views: 540 | RE: RE: domesticated dolphins Dolphin Lover. You contradict yourself so many times. Its always to support your case, but it doesn't work. For your comment about having friends in the military. It is quite likely that, regardless of what branch of the military they are in, a dolphin saved their lives. It was the dolphins who told the humans where the mines were and, more importantly, where they were not. So that our ships could get throuogh. It was the Mark 8 Marine Mammal System that got them through the waters and to land. Without them would your friends be dead? Maybe not. It depends which ships blew up because of those mines. Would their friends be dead? Probably. For your last comment. Yes. Dolphins die. Sea Lions die. And guess what? Humans die too. Its war. War is destruction. War is death. That is the way it is. Are the dolphins sent on a suicide mission? Absolutely not. Not only would it be illogical, but it is unproductive. It would be ineffecient to kill off a member of the team. And, although I realize that you dont consider dolphins intelligent members of a team, they ARE members of the team. And the human counterpart of that dolphin probably WOULD die for it. Just as theh dolphin would do what it could do to protect its human. Dolphins are not as stupid as you obviously think that they are. You said that they develop unusualy close relationships with humans? You know what? The humans develop the relationship with them too. |
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