] AUSTRALIAN military divers yesterday questioned the
] effectiveness of the US Navy's mine-clearing dolphins,
] revealing one had disappeared for two days.
]
] The polite way to express their scepticism about the
] mine-clearing skills of the dolphins is to question their
] reliability and cost-efficiency, but one diver spoke more
] plainly yesterday.
]
] "Flipper's fucked, mate," he said.
]
] "The dolphins have had all this amazing publicity but as
] soon as they put one in the water it shot through.
] There's a war going on and Flipper goes AWOL (absent
] without leave)."