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Well, young people, let's continue.

It turned out that readers of the column are by no means against the regular appearance of some of my old memories here. So, I'll give you one more portion to start with. However, at first it will not be about what I remember. Quite the contrary - I will tell you about what was not deposited in my memory.

When and who first told me about the extraordinary abilities of dolphins? The devil knows. Most likely, as in many other cases, it was the father. Mom's hospital was at the other end of the city, on the outskirts. My kindergarten, and then my school, is in the center, closer to my father's work. It is not difficult to guess that the head of the family most often escorted the child to the place of his gradual growing up and socialization in the morning. Then I often stuffed myself into his companions even after reaching the age that allowed me to move around the city on my own. I don’t know what other parents do in similar situations, but since then I can’t imagine anything other than those peculiar lectures that my father gave me along the way. Can you imagine how much he told me over all those years? Great storyteller, it was amazing to listen to him!

And not just me. Turning back, a whole string of children was found close behind us. Everyone pretended that it happened quite by accident, but at the same time carefully listened to our conversation. It used to happen that later at school breaks one of them would come up, clarifying something like: “Is this your dad? .. Is it always like this with you? .. Listen, I missed it, tell me how Joan of Arc ended with the Inquisition?

In the pre-Internet era, Anatoly Vasilyevich was something like an Internet search engine for me. Any request was immediately followed by a two-three-minute lecture. If desired, much longer. The topics were very different. Naturally, taking into account boyish interests, and with an emphasis on unusual and entertaining: stories with geography, flying saucers and Egyptian pyramids, tanks and planes, partisans and pirates, knights and astronauts . .. Dolphins, with their mysterious language, could well have crept into this long row , strange habits of throwing ashore and saving drowning people, amazing learning abilities ... And so on and so forth.

But the first meaningful memory was imprinted very clearly. It refers to the end of the 70s, when the American film "The Day of the Dolphin" was shown in the Soviet box office.

The most powerful shots of the film are the last ones.

...A hovercraft is rapidly approaching from the sea - the military wants to get their way no matter what. We must be saved! But Tarell wastes precious time repeating the order to the dolphins over and over again: "Go to sea and never come back! Never speak human language! Never!" Only cooing in response to him: "Why?" Then people still run away deep into the island, and the dolphins swim in pairs along the coast and their piercing, calling cry is heard over the sea: “Dad! Mother!"

When the lights come on in the hall, many viewers begin to hurriedly, bashfully wipe their wet eyes and sniff their noses on the way to the exit...

If there was a desire, now one can watch this film without much difficulty. But I do not want. I'm afraid to destroy the strong childhood impressions. And then, you know, there were precedents. Take at least the same "Vikings" with Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis ... However, this is a completely different story.

I recently remembered the “Day of the Dolphin” after the opening of Robert Merle's page . It was his novel The Rational Animal (1967) that served as the basis for that film adaptation. Too bad I didn't get it when I was a kid. It would be possible to search now, but I am tormented by vague doubts that a move will come to reading it. And so the queue lined up rather big and continues to lengthen menacingly.

And to say that, I hardly learn anything new. Over the past years, invariably interested in the topic, I learned a lot of interesting things about marine animals in general, and about dolphins in particular. It is interesting that at the same time I did not come across a single popular science book, or at least a decent brochure on this topic. The most voluminous works belonged to science fiction - "Dolphin Island" by Arthur Clarke and "The Adventures of Hook" by Tur Trunkatov - and with all due respect, they can hardly be classified as such. The main assets were articles in the journals "Science and Life", "Technology for Youth", and some other materials from periodicals. That's all.

It would seem that the Internet is ready to provide the modern reader with much more information with just one or two requests. But you will be disappointed. The search engine stubbornly gives out the same thing - a scattering of some articles, for the most part, small in volume, superficial and weighed down by the unhealthy craving of journalists for sensationalism.

Against this background, the work of journalist Sergei Kalenikin noticeably stands out for the better. One feels that the author has been interested in the topic for a long time, purposefully met with many experts, interviewed them, collected extensive factual material, publications from various print and online sources. To the best of his ability, he tried to systematize all this and published a series of articles entitled “Dolphins: “people” from the sea?” ("Science and Religion" 2005 No. 7-9, 11-12; 2006 No. 1-5, 7-10, 12). Some of them are available on site "Dolphin Bay" - parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Another option lies at mail.ru . I haven't done a rigorous comparison, but a quick glance shows that some materials are on one site but not on another, and vice versa. If anyone is interested in information in the volume "About dolphins - for dummies", I highly recommend it.

After reading it, it becomes obvious that not one or two articles of subsequent years are just a compilation of quotations of various sizes, pulled from Kalenikin. At best, the authors used the same sources. But Kalenikin has more, much more.

At the same time, Kalenikin's work only confirms my long-standing conclusions about the reasons why there have not been any notable popular science publications in this area so far.

First, what are the 70s and 80s? We still know almost nothing reliably about the oceans. We can say nothing at all. More or less regular and active research in this area has been going on for a little over a hundred years, rarely dropping to a mark of a hundred or two meters. So in the thickness of the waters of the seas and oceans, humanity is waiting for many more secrets and discoveries. This fully applies to dolphins

quote Vsevolod Belkovich

Dolphins, as they were mysterious animals, have remained, of course, although our knowledge has significantly expanded. But one thing must be taken into account. Dolphins live in an environment that is little accessible to humans for research - this is the world's oceans. And we know little about the oceans. So if riddles remain on Earth, then it is there - in the oceans.

(From A. Gordon's Dolphin Day program)

Secondly, publications on dolphin research have been severely limited for a long time. And if at least something broke through to the mass reader abroad, then in the USSR the lion's share of work in this direction was covered with an impenetrable canopy of secrecy ...

Just now I was thinking about one of my last games “What? Where? When?" And in the early 2000s, the team, as if not Alexander Druz himself, surprised me when they didn’t “take up” the question: , always turns out…”

Even a frank hint did not help: in the photo, the author of the question is standing in a pose a la Rambo with something like a laboratory laser at the ready.

Perhaps the "experts" did not read this novel, which is strange - acquaintance with the work of our Kurt Vonnegut seemed to be considered mandatory among the intellectuals of those years. But the phrase has long gone beyond the boundaries of the genre, turning into a stable mem that no one dares to dispute: no matter what the scientist does, it always turns out, weapon .

And this fully applies to our case.

citation Kalenikin

In different countries at different times everything served the war: fighting elephants, lions, dexterous panthers, cheetahs, wild-headed buffaloes, ferocious dogs, smartest rats...

And since the military operations unfolded in all their diversity, not only on land, then why should marine life stand apart? According to legend, even Alexander the Great intended to create a dolphin cavalry. God knows how true this is, but eloquent paintings are kept in museums - drawings, on which glorious Greek warriors riding dolphins very clearly flaunt in their armor. They say that Napoleon, for a swift crossing of the English Channel, was thinking of using dolphins as sea cabs ...

These are legends and fantasies. And in the twentieth century, the issue was approached much more thoroughly. Marine animals were put "under arms", but - damn dialectics! - it was during the preparation for their combat use that the lion's share of our modern knowledge about them was obtained. Now it can be argued that at least something about dolphins is known more or less reliably.

The professional interests of your obedient servant also determine the distinct bias of my knowledge in volume direction. At first, information was collected painstakingly, bit by bit. Mostly by word of mouth. And in recent years, this has become not that easier. I would say that a wave of information fell on the reader - take it, I don’t want it. Which I shamelessly used.

But even I was surprised by Kalenikin.

For example, the story about the preparation of war seals by the famous Lev Durov for the Russian fleet during the First World War is already quite well known. But about parallel in time, similar studies in England, and in Sweden - before the start of the Second World War, I have not come across any mention anywhere else. Moreover, this information has not yet been replicated and may well claim exclusivity.

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Wood designed a signal telescope for the American army, a device for quickly pumping military balloons with hot air, and invented a "spider grenade" for air defense. He even managed to involve the British command in the training of seals in order to use them to detect submarines. The seals chased the submarines badly, all the time being distracted by shoals of herring. But the experiments gave an unexpected result. It has been proven that seals hear perfectly when swimming at full speed underwater. This helped to improve hydrophones, devices for listening to the noise of submarine propellers. For his military notions, a purely civilian specialist Wood received the rank of major.

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Meanwhile, as I understand it, Kalenikin's education is purely humanitarian and has nothing to do with either zoology or ethology, so his work strongly resembles a patchwork quilt - painstakingly assembled, but swept on a live thread pieces from different sources. The generic seals inherent in the works of many of his colleagues in the workshop are also clearly visible. Strict academic assessments and formulations are now and then interrupted by overly emotional exclamations in the style: “How long!”. Again - a craving for sensationalism, plus the so-called "patriotism". This is especially noticeable in the "military" part of the work, where when reading, one immediately recalls the well-known maxim about insidious spies and heroic intelligence officers. Of course, adjusted for the subject of research: unscrupulous American scientists, who tortured dolphins a lot, studying the possibilities of their use for military purposes, are talented Soviet researchers who have achieved amazing success in using marine animals to solve applied problems.

But Kalenikin's attempt is worthy of all respect. And to compensate for some of the shortcomings of his work, I am ready to share with you some of my "bins".

The part about Soviet dolphins in the Black Sea is quite self-sufficient there - after the collapse of the USSR, Sevastopol went to Ukraine, and they opened access to many materials. So, this side of research is now covered as well as possible. There is much less information on the activities of other Soviet centers for the training of marine animals. Although they relate to our topic to a lesser extent - there were no dolphins there. In the Pacific Ocean, white whales and sea lions were prepared, and in the North, only pinnipeds. However, let's briefly outline the situation.

Here is what Kalenikin tells about the Far East (by the way, evaluate the rhetoric at the same time):

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joy to the adversary ) (highlighted by me - A.K. ) ...

- to the staff of the aquarium) there were four belugas left in it - Bion, Bob, Mamon and Jerry - and suvuchi Margo with her daughter Dasha (the rest died of starvation or fled and died in the wild). Starvation also threatened these remnants of the once formidable special forces, essentially abandoned to the mercy of fate by the military department and the state. With great difficulty in autumn 19In 1998, sea animals were transported to Moscow, where they began to entertain the idle public, who did not even suspect about the past military life of these belugas and sea lions. This was put an end to in the annals of our pinnipedal special forces.

And here is what we read from him about the North:

quote Kalenikin

There is no reliable information about the fate of the unit in the Northern Fleet.

Now look at article "Dolphin Special Forces" by a certain Vladimir Shcherbakov ("Around the World" No. 2 (2833) 2010, heading "Arsenal"). Those who wish can compare its text with what was published five years before. But, as I said, let's assume that the authors simply used heavily the same sources. I was personally interested in something else - and phrase 9 migrated here0030 "There is no reliable information about the fate of the unit in the Northern Fleet" . And the claim here is by no means to Kalenikin. In the light of our recent conversation about the fact that the reader can and should trust only "tough professionals in real editorial offices", I bring to your attention one more material from the same "Around the World":

quote "Around the World" No3 2006.

IT APPEARS: Not only humans, but also seals serve in the Russian Navy Scientists from the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (MMBI) of the Kola Science Center (KSC) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with specialists from the Northern Fleet at the training center in the area of ​​Saida-Guba (Kola Bay) have been successfully training seals to defend military and strategic facilities for more than 20 years. The perfect systems of location, hydrodynamics and decompression of these animals exceed the capabilities of many technical means. Even a very small object will not hide from the attention of a seal in the folds of the bottom, nor will magnetic disturbances interfere with its work , no noise, no vibration.Animals know how to attack saboteurs, help collect and transmit information, get bottom items and mark their location. At the same time, marine mammals themselves move silently in the water, and the most highly sensitive sensors can be placed on their bodies. The initial training of seals takes about a year, after which they serve 15-20 years. Retired animals entertain kids at the Murmansk Oceanarium.

I have long had the impression that if there were professionals in some editorial offices, then it was too once. It turns out that there is quite reliable information. All you need is the desire and the ability to find it - at least leaf through the backing of your own magazine. And if you tear your ass off the chair in the office where you sit, shoveling the net for other people's articles, you can find something else.

Of course, the circulation of publications is scanty. I can boast of owning the last book in this series, and there are only three hundred copies of them. But, I think, MMBI experts would be delighted if Vokrug Sveta showed interest in their work, and provided a lot of interesting facts for publication. Because they have almost nothing secret left for a long time.

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Since the mid-1980s, MMBI KSC RAS ​​(director - Academician G. G. Matishov) has been conducting scientific and applied work to prepare marine mammals for performing special tasks. For the first time in the practice of scientific and applied developments, native arctic species of pinnipeds - representatives of the family of true seals - are considered as objects of research and official use (previously, only dolphins and eared seals - sea lions and fur seals were used in the US Navy and the SSR Navy).

Until 1994, the Main Directorate of the Navy, the RTU of the Navy, and the Main Staff of the Navy acted as customers of the work. Since 1999, this activity has been carried out at the Red Stones experimental aquatic site in Saida Bay Gadzhiyevo. In 1994, the targeted financing of these works by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was terminated. However, taking into account their undoubted importance for ensuring the defense capability of Russia, since 1995 MMBI continued on its own, with the support of the Northern Fleet and the Ministry of Science of the Russian Federation, to study marine mammals at the experimental site.

Currently, these works are financed under the program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation ... and at the expense of the institute's own funds raised. The Northern Fleet has been providing all possible assistance to MMBI for more than twenty years, paying tribute to the importance and prospects of research.

And an inquisitive journalist could find more than just Kalenikin's articles online.

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With the collapse of the Soviet army, funding for the last scientific base at MMBI also ceased.

Trained and trained animals could not be released into the wild; over the years of being in scientific centers, they had lost the habit of getting their own food. Therefore, on the basis of MMBI, a joint-stock commercial company was created. Moreover, all shareholders knew that it would not bring profit - oceanariums all over the world are unprofitable.

Thus, in 1993, the "Murmansk Oceanarium" was formed. Now it is the only aquarium in Europe that works with "real" (grey) and harp seals.

French and Norwegian specialists highly appreciate the professional qualities of the coaching staff of the Murmansk Oceanarium and regularly invite their staff for training.

In addition to the circus show, the oceanarium is engaged in various areas of work with these animals - this is scientific work (basic research), medical (health improvement of children with unstable mentality), environmental (scientific monitoring, it would be possible to conduct a much faster and more economical search for leaks in underwater gas and oil pipelines), defense research.

Last year (in 2004 - А.К. ) , interested in the possibilities of using seals for defense purposes, the aquarium was visited by journalists from the central television channels of the United States and Great Britain.

Unfortunately, the attitude of the authorities in Russia and other countries towards the possibility of using pinnipeds for scientific and defense purposes varies too much.

There are a large number of oceanariums or dolphinariums in the USA. Their maintenance is expensive, as in Russia, however, a significant part of the costs lies with American taxpayers ... In the French city of Brest, the famous "Oceanopolis" is 50% funded by the state, 20% by the local budget, and only 30% of the funds are earned by itself... Oceanariums in Norway, Israel and Finland are also funded by the state. Even in Ukraine, a third of the expenses of such research centers are financed by the military, a third by the Academy of Sciences, and they earn a third themselves.

In Russia, neither the federal nor the local budget, as a rule, pay attention to the problems of unique scientific centers. Although even in such a situation, Russian specialists are trying to find opportunities and conduct training at least in closed lakes, and not in the sea ...

Aqua training ground somehow survives to this day, continuing an almost feverish search for sponsors. There are certain hopes for Gazprom as part of the Shtokman field development project, although, in my opinion, the prospects there are very shaky.

Only it's all about pinnipeds. And although I could tell a lot more about them, it's time to return to our dolphins. Attached is an article about marine animals in the US Navy in a slightly more academic manner than Kalenikin's. Regarding the unscrupulousness and deceit of the adversary, pay attention to the strict control of environmentalists over the work of the military, a sharp reduction in funding and the declassification of the program in the early 90s. Talk about some extraordinary military secret of the American program has long been on the line of symptoms of the same journalistic disease. In fact, no more than 5% of research remains closed, and these percentages relate mainly to the CIA center in Key West. But those are the guys from Langley. They have, as they say, nobles oblique. Others are incredibly open. Don't believe? You can check. Here is the official website of the American MMS program. Many units using marine animals also have their own pages on the net. Information is the sea. Up to a job offer. Welcome!

How are things in other countries? To put it mildly, differently.

We can talk about some kind of openness only with regard to India. At the end of 2008, official representatives of the Navy of this country announced their intention to use trained dolphins for military purposes, in particular, to undermine enemy surface and underwater targets. The plans drew strong condemnation from national animal rights organizations, who called on the government to abandon the plans.

This is actually a very interesting fact, given that India is in constant competition with Pakistan and China. That is, it is possible to assume something similar there. But so far nothing has been heard about it.

And here, the Americans do not hesitate to reveal someone else's secret to the whole world. According to the US intelligence services, during the Zulfakar Strike exercise in 2006, under conditions of heightened secrecy, the top military-political leadership of Iran demonstrated the possibility of destroying naval targets using trained dolphins. The preparation of marine animals for the Iranian Navy is carried out by Ukrainian specialists who previously served in the military oceanarium located in the Cossack Bay of Sevastopol. After the collapse of the USSR, the oceanarium as part of the Ukrainian Navy existed for eight years in conditions of severe underfunding. In 2000, it was closed, and Iran purchased unique equipment from Ukraine, 27 remaining animals, and invited all interested specialists to go to work in Iran. Those who wished were found.

Among the countries that use dolphins for military purposes, most experts unanimously name France, but this information is not officially confirmed.

By and large, the list can be rather big. Any country that has an oceanarium and where trained dolphins perform has a minimum of the necessary equipment and trained personnel to start militarizing marine animals

Now there are about three hundred active dolphinariums in the world. Nearly a third of them are in the US. The Americans are followed by Japan and China, followed by a long list. From Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to Australia and South Africa. And they all can. In relation to some, there are persistent suspicions that they also want. As for specific methods, the same work of Kalenikin may well become the fundamental basis for them. How is everything about Sevastopol described in detail ...

Actually, it was originally planned that somewhere here the article would smoothly “fade away”, reaching its logical conclusion - with a hint of a possible continuation. But it was not there. The turn of that same magic came, a series of amazing coincidences that I mentioned more than once. Events began to "attract" to each other and the continuation appeared somehow by itself.

... went into the next office - we ran out of toner, and I wanted to copy Shcherbakov's article from Vokrug sveta. Alexander Petrovich, our pensioner, got interested, read it.

- This Kalganov, "Beard" - was an amazing man. The whole chest is in orders, all in scars - a hero and a daredevil, what to look for. And I was terrified of dentists. If a tooth began to hurt so much that he could not stand it, he tore them to himself. Half a glass of alcohol for anesthesia, threw a loop, - "Crunch!". And another half a cup, for disinfection.

— Who told you? - I'm curious.

- Heh, I told you. I, my dear, was personally present at the same time when I was doing student practice in this very ve-che.

— What kind of practice?

- Student. Summer, - my neighbor squints rather like a cat. - When I entered the Sevastopol Instrument-Making Institute, I became friends with one guy. And he was local. The first course ends, the session is on the nose, and the practice is just around the corner. We were then sent to distant collective farms - they built cowsheds, pigsties, all sorts of farms. And a friend says to me: “There is an option to stay here for the whole summer. Don't you want to?" I, of course, as a pioneer: "Always ready!" He took me there, wrote applications, collected the necessary documents, handed them over. Here the exams are already coming to an end, people are starting to pack their backpacks. And we - to the dean, and his attitude on the table: “I ask you to send students such and such to undergo labor practice in military unit 13132-K as laboratory assistants. Commander - Captain 1st Rank Kalganov. The dean chuckled and signed.

— And you didn't ask questions?

- Asked, of course, but carefully. We let in the fog, and he retreated. So, every summer we practiced there. Then we were issued with permanent passes - they could pass freely at any time, not only in the summer ... It was also interesting when classes began at the military department. They began to issue all access to secrets - fill out questionnaires, write autobiographies, all sorts of certificates - a bunch of pieces of paper. Well, you know. And we brought them the number of times from the part of the certificate in the form. They did the second for all of ours, but for us it was the first, and not for the first year. You should have seen what kind of eyes were in the first section ...

...Of course, the laboratory assistant's memories of the course and results of the work cannot be compared with what is described by Kalenikin. But they add life. And, you see, an interesting coincidence. But it did not end there, and then it went much closer to the present.

...a friend showed up to me - he came on a business trip from the Far East. Word for word, I mentioned in passing about dolphinologists who emigrated from Ukraine to Iran.

— Ha, surprised. Yes, in this case for a long time "Trend, however." After our center was dispersed, many "specialists" were quickly bought by the Chinese. And the contracts are “delicious” - they have been sitting there for many years and for some reason they are not in a hurry to go back. As it is - the Far East version of the Ukrainian-Iranian deal...

…we are having a glass of tea with a familiar sea dog. And again, the conversation somehow imperceptibly turned to our today's topic.

“Yes, these fighting dolphins have long been around the world - like uncut dogs,” my counterpart declares emotionally.

— Is it like that all over the world?

— Well, maybe not everywhere, but in Israel they definitely are.

- I haven't heard anything about it yet.

— Well, I'll tell you. It's been five years since this thing started. If you stand in the road before entering the Israeli port, from time to time an interesting boat comes to the parking lot. The awning is stretched over the deck, and in the side it has a cutout almost to the very waterline - you must admit, any sailor will pay such attention to this. This boat spins around all the time, but does not come close. But along the sides of the ships, dolphins begin to snoop. Then the boat goes more seaward, further away, and the course stops. But the optics have a good magnification, sometimes you can see how something jumps out of the water onto the deck - exactly through that cutout in the skin. Here the boat turns around and back at full speed. If it passes by, it is clear that now a decent carcass lies inside, neatly covered with a tarpaulin.

And when we go to the port, the dolphins accompany us, and the boat is nearby. Yes, and in the port, it happens. At the same time, they are constantly reminded that swimming from the ship is prohibited.

So be smart…

Be smart…

It makes me want to check it out.

Let's get together. Do you want us to explore with you? Stop! Where? No need to paint camouflage spots and stripes on the face with combat cosmetics. No need to stick twigs in your hair or wrap yourself in a sheet if you still have snow. All this is superfluous. And now you won't have to go to the other end of the world. We will go into reconnaissance without looking up from the screen and without leaving the Web.

Right, oh, right Pavel Shumil:

quote P. Shumil

Let's remember the well-known Google company. Search engine "Google", "Earth from space" ... Beautiful and convenient. However, behind a beautiful façade lies an intelligence office that successfully made its debut as an organizer and coordinator of the latest color revolutions.

Yes, and seemingly harmless "Google Earth" - a source of intelligence information. During World War II, British intelligence collected photographs of the French coast from the population in order to select a landing site. Today, SAMI people post photos of bridges, factories, nuclear power plants, thermal power plants, and military installations on Google. Even the numbers of military units are signed, idiots. And all this - with reference to the exact geographical coordinates.

Here, of course, too much. Anyone can call Google Earth a harmless program, but not specialists of a certain profile. But this weapon is double-edged. Public availability allows it to be used by both one and the other side. Why would Americans and Israelis regularly complain that Palestinian terrorists and guerrillas in Iraq are using high-resolution Google maps to prepare their actions?

Well, you can't say otherwise - we were born to make a fairy tale come true. In the days of the ABS, this was so fantastic that their progressing planets were monitored not from space, but from patrol airships (although, maybe it was censorship or self-censorship that removed “military space”). Ten years ago, we could see this only in albums marked “Top Secret” in high headquarters, and even in some universities. Well, sometimes in the press - if "we" or "they" decided to publish something. Only the pictures were in black and white. And here everything is in colors, in color. The resolution is not yet such as to read the numbers of cars, but I clearly examined the outhouse in the garden of my father-in-law. And we don't need more. Go where you want, watch what you want.

I propose to visit the descendants of King David. No, of course, those who wish can check the Gauls, Persians, and subjects of the Celestial Empire for military-dolphin secrets. Only troublesome it is - along their entire coast to scour, all the bays and harbors to ransack. Yes, and you can be completely deceived - both in France and in China there are enough commercial oceanariums.

And what about that Israel? Ugh! Plus, the coastline is not indented, almost all ports are hidden behind artificial breakwaters and breakwaters on a bare beach. They have one dolphinarium, and that one is on the shores of the Red Sea, while we are still more interested in the Mediterranean coast. View everything there - ten to fifteen minutes. Pictures from the heat of the heat - fresh - 2011. Go?

And so, very quickly, but still - all of a sudden - in the southern part of the port of Hadera, we come across some interesting objects. What are those little squares along the piers? One, two, three, four... Fifteen. And two more, a little further from the coast.

Comparing these images with a photograph of the American military dolphinarium in San Diego, do we see a surprising similarity? It seems that we found nothing more than dolphin enclosures.

Actually, that's all intelligence. Move back, I'll cover... Drop it, commander, drop it. .. Don't leave me, but the radio... Etc.

And according to the results, I propose, without delay, to become newsmakers and submit a sensational statement to the judgment of the general international community. Something like that:

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According to some information, a unit of specially trained dolphins has been constantly operating in the Israeli armed forces for several years. Place of deployment - the port of Hadera. The unit has up to 15 marine animals. One of the tasks for which the dolphins are trained is to protect the Israeli coast and water areas of the country's ports from the penetration of combat swimmers and underwater terrorist saboteurs.

All activities of this unit are carried out in an atmosphere of heightened secrecy.

Israeli officials have not yet commented on this information.

Exclusive, gentlemen. And, as seasoned copywriters teach us, we warn you: when reprinting this message, as well as any part of it, a link to the source is required.

Of course, our former fellow countrymen (an mass) can call us Bad Boys, who revealed the real military secret to the damned bourgeois Palestinians. But, firstly, we are not from evil. Secondly, now they will only be more afraid. And thirdly, you need to warn! About the fact that this is a secret, in general, no one bothered to tell us.

And finally, who in their right mind and sober memory will take seriously the statement made by Captain Vrungel and posted under the heading "Fairy Tale ..." on the site "Laboratory of Science Fiction"?

Eh, the article should have been published on April 1st. It's just too long to wait, it's unbearable... ALL PHOTOS

Employee of the main tactical unit of the special operations forces The US Navy, which on the night of May 2, 2011 eliminated Osama bin Laden , does not receive pension payments and medical care. About the history of this man, according to "Interfax" , writes the magazine Esquire .

"The shooter was sweating, talking about his obscure future and plans to leave the special forces," the magazine writes. According to journalists, at present, the fur seal is only thinking about how to feed his family and pay for the health insurance of his wife and children.

Unlike U.S. Special Forces veteran Matt Bissonnett, who wrote book "A Hard Day" about the destruction of "terrorist number one", others SEALs are in no hurry to do the same or perform in public, as they may violate the internal rules of the elite unit, writes a magazine.

According to Esquire, SEAL commanders ordered that those involved in the operation to eliminate bin Laden 23 special forces did not spread in the media about its conduct and behaved as if nothing had happened.

The US authorities have promised to pay a reward of $25 million for the destruction of bin Laden, however, most likely, no one will receive it - neither commandos, nor the intelligence experts who helped them conduct this operation, writes a journal. However, the commando who killed "terrorist number one" does not attach any importance to this, the article says.

"I'm not a religious person, but I always felt that I appeared on earth in order to do something special. After that operation, I understood why," he said in an interview with the magazine.

"This operation has become commercial, people use it for their own benefit. But not the killer (terrorist). While others make money, he behaves carefully and only cares about not disgracing anyone," notes Esquire.

"The body of the commando who killed bin Laden is covered with scars, his eyes are damaged, he suffers from arthritis and tendinitis. retired for several years in the special forces "fur seal" did not receive from the authorities nothing: no pension, no medical care, no guarantees of protection for himself and members of his family," writes the magazine.

Meanwhile, the former wife of the "fur seal" admitted that now in feel more threatened by a possible terrorist attack as an act of revenge than eight years ago.

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