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\n With concerns about Iran laying mines<\/a> in the Strait of Hormuz, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked Tuesday whether Iran might turn to dolphins to help confront the US Navy.\n <\/p>\n

\n He said that he could \u201cconfirm\u201d that Iran didn\u2019t have dolphins to deploy as part of operations but said he would neither \u201cconfirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n One source familiar with US operations in the Strait of Hormuz told CNN that the US military isn\u2019t using dolphins as part of its efforts in the Strait. But the US Navy does, in fact, have a decades-old program to train dolphins to help detect mines.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Marine Mammal Program is a part of the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Department within Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. The department\u2019s dolphins are not kamikaze dolphins in that they do not sacrifice their lives to detonate mines. Instead, they\u2019re focused on detection.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe use marine mammals to help detect objects under water and to protect ports by detecting intruders,\u201d Scott Savitz, a senior engineer at RAND who previously worked with the now-decommissioned US Navy mine warfare command, told CNN. \u201cSo it\u2019s not \u2018The Day of the Dolphin.\u2019\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The US isn\u2019t alone in using dolphins for military purposes \u2014 Russia has used them to guard ports,<\/a> and Iran purchased dolphins in 2000, according to the BBC<\/a>. Those dolphins would likely be too old to be used today, and there is no indication that Iran has an active dolphin program, though the Wall Street Journal reported last month that Iran was considering mine-carrying dolphins as a novel way to combat the US efforts to open the Strait.\n <\/p>\n

\n The question to Hegseth on Tuesday comes amid questions about the ceasefire between the US and Iran, after shots were fired by both sides as tensions escalated in the Strait of Hormuz. CNN reported in March that Iran had started laying mines in the Strait; Hegseth said in April that laying mines would violate the tentative ceasefire agreement and that the US military would \u201cdeal with that.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n The US Navy\u2019s dolphin program has been around since 1959, focused on training bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to detect and recover objects underwater. According to the Marine Mammal Program\u2019s webpage<\/a>, dolphins \u201cpossess the most sophisticated sonar known to science,\u201d and underwater drones are \u201cno match for the animals.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cBoth dolphins and sea lions have excellent low light vision and underwater directional hearing that allow them to detect and track undersea targets, even in dark or murky waters,\u201d the website says. \u201cDolphins are trained to search for and mark the location of undersea mines that could threaten the safety of those on board military or civilian ships.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n During a detection mission, the dolphin would typically travel with 2-3 handlers in a small boat. To indicate if they\u2019ve found something, the animal will tap a paddle at the front of the boat, and tap a back paddle to indicate they haven\u2019t, according to the Naval Undersea Museum<\/a>. The dolphins drop \u201cmarker buoys\u201d near mines they\u2019ve located to help human divers find and disable them.\n <\/p>\n

\n But dolphins are not typically used in an active combat environment like what exists in the Strait of Hormuz currently. Instead, dolphins have been used to detect mines after fighting has finished, Savitz said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Savitz pointed specifically to when dolphins were deployed in 2003 to detect any mines leading to the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr after the US and coalition partners had captured southern Iraq.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHostilities had basically ceased,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re not trying to fight your way in with dolphins.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A key aspect of the program, Savitz explained, is that the dolphins and sealions have the opportunity to leave every time they go out into the open waters for training or operations.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThey choose to come back because they like the free fish; they like the game of can you find this on the sea floor, can you find the person trying to swim close to the piers; they like the protection from predators,\u201d Savitz said. \u201cThere are always questions about animal welfare, but these animals actively choose to stay in the program when they could just join the wild.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN\u2019s Zachary Cohen contributed to this report.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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