Plan for dolphins to protect base draws critics

Critics of a Navy plan to use dolphins and sea lions to guard waters off the coast of a major submarine base say the ocean is too cold for the plan to work.

The animals are trained to alert a handler when they detect anyone in the water. The handler, in a small boat, then places a strobe light on the nose of the animal, which speeds back and bumps the swimmer. The bump knocks the light into the water, where it floats to mark the spot for security personnel to intercept the intruder.

Navy officials note that dolphins and sea lions have guarded the shoreline at a similar sub base in Kings Bay, Ga., for two years.

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I think it's great!

The animal rights activists and environmentalists are never happy with anything. If they used sonar, they'd be saying that was going to kill wild dolphins and whales.

Using trained, well cared for dolphins to do work like this is probably has the least environmental impact imaginable.

I dissaprove of this.

Animals, especially Dolphins, which are sentient beings, should not
be used in such a way.

I fthey really want to do this, than they should develop robotic systems
to do it, which would'nt actually be difficult to do considering the
technology to develop such a system exists today.

Anyone play RA 2, that game had dolphins as a naval unit.

anyway i don't believ animals should be exploited and therefore exposed so unnessacary danger with out any real concent. you really have to put yourself in the dolphins shoes, i mean would you like to be exploited for someones else gain, they would probly consider them expendable, which i don't believ is right.