Trained sea lions help U.S. Fifth Fleet detect Iraqi mines
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Thursday, January 30, 2003
ABU DHABI Ñ The U.S. Fifth Fleet has deployed sea lions to help
detect and defuse Iraqi mines meant for U.S. naval vessels operating
around the Gulf.
U.S. Central Command said the sea lions were trained to recover unarmed
practice mines after naval exercises and were brought to Manama. The
command's naval forces said the California sea lions will apprehend
insurgents who try to place mines on or near U.S. warships whether on land
or in sea.
"They can run on land as fast as a human and can swim at 40 kilometers
an hour for short bursts, making them ideal for quickly attaching restraint
devices to divers underwater and then swimming away at high speed as
security forces move in to apprehend the restrained diver almost
immediately," Central Command said in a statement.
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