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US Navy mine-seeking dolphins are pictured strapped into tanks on a cargo plane...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By JAMES GORDON

A group of dolphins have been photographed being transported by the U.S. Air Force aboard a C-17 Globemaster transport plane, as they head on a top secret mission organized by the Navy.

The dolphins were being taken to an unknown location where the Navy will train them how to seek undersea mines.

Just as the Army uses patrol dogs to sniff out explosives, the Navy uses the mammals to hunt out the dangerous mines, which could destroy ships and sailors if left to explode. 

The mammals are far more adept and quicker at finding the mines than human divers.

The dolphins are trained to search for sea mines in a particular stretch of water using their sonar which is far more sophisticated than any man-made detection device.

Upon finding one, the animal is trained to release a tag which floats up to the surface, allowing humans to investigate the find and neutralize the mine.  

The photos of the dolphins placed in tanks in the cargo plane were posted online to an Air Force Facebook group. 


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