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The U.S. Navy trains bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to protect ships and harbors. i interview a former trainer and try to uncover the secrets of these military dolphins.

00:00 - Navy Dolphin Program
01:10 - History of Dolphins in the Military
01:57 - Military Sea Lion Retrieves Test Equipment
02:57 - U.S. Navy Strapped Cameras to Dolphins
03:28 - Russian Spy Whale Hvladimir
04:40 - Interview With a Navy Dolphin Trainer
05:54 - Ending Dolphin Programs
06:33 - Navy Dolphins Can Teach Us About Aging
06:48 - Ethics of Military Dolphins
07:44 - Classified and Redacted

The U.S. Navy began training dolphins and sea lions in the 1960s. The goal was to protect U.S. shores and ships by hunting for underwater mines, recovering test equipment, and even intercepting unauthorized swimmers. In early 2023, the U.S. Congress debated ending the use of marine mammals to hunt for underwater mines — and use drones instead. The problem is there is no technology that currently equals a dolphin's unique ability to locate mines. So Congress barred the Navy from retiring its dolphins until new mine-countermeasure systems are developed that can rival these marine mammals.

The U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program began in 1959, when the Navy used captive dolphins for hydrodynamic studies. The goal was to improve torpedo performance. However, the dolphin’s incredible intelligence, natural sonar, deep-diving physiology, and trainability opened the door to new possibilities. The first major breakthrough was when the marine biologists realized these animals could reliably work untethered in the open ocean.

These highly trained military dolphins and sea lions typically live and are trained in enclosed habitats known as sea pens. But they are given regular opportunities to hunt in the open ocean., as we see in a new study published earlier this year.

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