This story about US Navy-trained dolphins being used by Australian divers off Umm Qasr reminded me of Jones, the dolphin from William Gibson’s short story Johnny Mnemonic. (Which is still a great story, if you can pretend it was never mangled into a movie.) These Navy dolphins aren’t quite as cool as Jones, but they are pretty slick - fin-mounted sensors collect information, while the dolphins are also trained to find and identify mines, mine-laying vehicles, and enemy divers.