Dolphins help fish out terrorists in the Gulf

The US navy has deployed highly trained dolphins in the Gulf to help protect coalition ships and piers against terrorist attacks by providing early warning of hostile swimmers.

"If there are any uninvited guests swimmers and divers trying to cause harm to US and coalition naval assets, the dolphins can detect and locate them," said Lieutenant Josh Frey, a spokesman of the 5th Fleet, which is based in Bahrain.

Citing security reasons, Lieutenant Commander Martin Anderson declined to divulge how many dolphins have been brought in, when they were deployed and why they were brought to the region now.

"We have a good enough reason to employ them here," said Anderson, who commands the Naval Forces Central Command Special Operations at the 5th Fleet base.

"They are trained to look out and they do very well at it," said Anderson as a 400-pound dolphin, nine-foot-long named Luke made a brief appearance at Bahrain's Mina Salman port, swimming alongside a Navy patrol boat.