April  30, 2019

Andrew campbell 

Last week, a tame beluga whale swam around on the Arctic Sea nearby Norway and kept on approaching a fishing boat. The whale is wearing a tight harness, with the words "St. Petersburg equipment", which features a mount for an action camera. Norway's marine experts suppose this beluga whale is a spy trained by the Russian military for a special combat force plan. However, the Russian military has denied this statement.
 

Norway's fishermen found the beluga whale with a strange harness rubbing itself against their fishing boat in the Barents Sea adjacent to the Arctic Ocean. The beluga whale behaves strangely, including actively looking for boats. Audun Rikardsen, a professor at the Arctic University of Norway, says Russians tame local whales, some of which have been released. Rikardsen has contacted Russian researchers. They respond that the whale is not related to them. It may come from the Russian Navy in Murmansk, in northwestern Russia.
 

In the 1980s, Soviet Russia had allowed the dolphins to receive military training. This mammalian military program was discontinued in the 1990s. However, in the past three years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reopened three former Soviet military bases on the Arctic coastline. The Russian Murmansk Sea Biology Research Institute conducts training for the Russian Navy to confirm whether beluga whales can be used to protect the entrances to the naval bases in the Arctic, assist deep-water divers and if necessary, kill strangers who enter.
 
A Russian officer says that Russia does train whales and dolphins for military missions. He does not deny that whale may belong to the Russian Navy. However, he says that its task is certainly not for search information. Otherwise, how would it be with the words "St. Petersburg equipment" on its harness?

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