Spetz, a Bottle Nose dolphin, is beached up on a transfer mat before going out on a training mission from the deck of the USS Gunston Hall operating in the Arabian Gulf Monday, March 17, 2003. Coalition forces have brought in two specially trained bottle-nosed Atlantic dolphins like Spetz, named Makai and Tacoma, to help
ferret out mines in the approaches of the port of Umm Qasr, Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart of the Central Command said. The dolphins will help clear the way for the shipment of humanitarianaid to allied-held southern Iraq, Renuart said.