Look for the "Dolphin Goddess" 03 guarding Sevastopol
The two-meter-tall naval officer was Captain Viktor Andreevich Calganov, first-class captain of the Black Sea Fleet. First Class Captain is the exclusive rank of the Russian Navy, equivalent to colonel or brigadier general, and the first class captain of the top officer killed in the Black Sea Fleet in the Russo-Ukrainian War, Deputy Commander Andrei Nikolaevich Parli, is the first class captain.
Calganov told Galina: "You were invited to work at the Naval Dolphin Research Center in Sevastopol. "In fact, he himself was the first commander of this center.
In South Sakhalin, Galina had established the first local diving club, taking divers to various activities, often meeting Marshal Budyonny on the rostrum and Rokossovsky, Kozhdubu and others, who liked the hot female instructor and helped her buy diving equipment, including diving suits, masks and fins. Everyone was very surprised when these orders arrived at Sakhalin Island by military aircraft. Galina has a special affection for the military, whether it is from the influence of the family or from her own experience, she does not lack the feeling of serving the country.
The question is, she only came into contact with dolphins during filming, and later learned a little bit of the technique of working with marine animals in Sakhalin, can she complete this task? And what does training dolphins have to do with defending the military port?
When the other side talked about the problem clearly, she understood that training dolphins to defend the military port was not the whimsy of a Soviet admiral, but learning from the experience of the US military.
By this time, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West had escalated. In the face of the Attack of the Vietnamese Guerrillas with Oriental colors, the "troubled" United States began to develop non-traditional weapons. In early 1964, the Vietnam People's Army's Combat Frogman easily infiltrated the military harbor and blasted the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier KAD on a fighter carrier mission with mines. The sinking of the 25,000-ton Cade forced the U.S. military to reconsider the defense of the port.
"Bombing out the Kader" commemorative stamp issued by Vietnam.
By the end of the year, the Vietnam People's Army found that some frogmen had not returned to the base, believing they had been attacked by sharks. In fact, these frogmen were wiped out during a battle with dolphins trained by the U.S. military.
It turned out that after the attack, the U.S. Navy had a special plan to combat underwater saboteurs. According to documents currently disclosed, Americans have captured 25 dolphins and sea lions a year since 1964, spending up to $30 million on training. Dolphins soon became reliable defense partners for U.S. warships stationed in The Port of Cam Ranh, Vietnam. According to unofficial figures, at least 50 Vietnamese frogmen and two Soviet blast divers who served as instructors were wiped out by dolphins — in fact, it was Galina's recollection that let people know that Soviet divers had participated in the Vietnam War.
Dolphins trained by the U.S. military
Marine life has a natural advantage over humans in underwater combat.
Because of this happening, the stone of his mountain could be attacked, and it was not surprising that Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy and commander of the Red Navy fleet at the time, decided to establish a secret center for training marine animals in the Cossack Bay near Sevastopol.
The task was given to Victor Andreevich Calganov, who had made many achievements in World War II, and the Americans already had five such centers. Calganov decided to train bottlenose dolphins (a type of dolphin that often haunts Soviet waters) to take on the task of defending the military port, and they tolerate captivity very well. The task given to Garina was to train them to take orders from the Navy, to carry out security tasks, and to eliminate incoming enemies.
How does Galina know how to tell the dolphins to obey orders?
After some thought, she still made a choice, and the daughter of the sea was never afraid of challenges.
After enlisting her husband's support, Galina changed her life again, leaving a comfortable apartment in Leningrad and starting an unknown new business in a strange city – paying a third of her original salary and living in a tent.
Galina threw what she needed most into a small suitcase, took her two-year-old son Yura by the hand, and dragged his beloved tricycle to set off, her parents once again showing their support for her.
They did live in tents in the first place, and their tents stood on the seashore of Cossack Bay. Galina has lived in it for more than two years and the working conditions are extreme. "I ate in the sailors' canteen and gathered a group of coaches and staff bit by bit. This job is not suitable for women, it is too difficult. Galina admitted.
What's harder is that she really doesn't know how to train dolphins. After all, everything in this regard is confidential on the Part of the United States, and there is no relevant information in international scientific journals. People only know that dolphins are smart, but in fact dolphins use ultrasound to make interconnections and are not sensitive to human voices. To this end, Galina sat at the water's edge for several days, thinking about it without any clues.
This meditation should be said to be in vain, but after Galina jumped into the pool, she found some ways to get along with dolphins. When she first swam with the bottlenose dolphins, they followed her curiously, observing her every move. When she pushes a pile of seaweed away, the dolphins will take the initiative to learn to push the seaweed away.
There is a door!
Although it is not known how the Americans trained dolphins, Pavlov was a Soviet.
Galina began to try to push the seaweed away, and then gave small dried fish to the dolphins who learned from her. So dolphins started the game more aggressively.
A few days later, the dolphins found that the seaweed in the pool was missing, and there were several dummies floating, And Garina still went to push the dummies, and the dolphins began to learn again, and continued to receive the reward of small dried fish... After a few days, the dummy on the surface of the water is gone, but the clever dolphin finds that some dummies in black diving suits have burrowed into the bottom of the pool, and Galina is struggling to bring a dummy back to the surface from underwater.
What a cunning human being, who actually went under the water to hide, is he ready to find an excuse to embezzle and give us small fish? Can't let them succeed! The dolphins soon learned to push the dummy to the surface of the water, and Galina had to "grievance" to take out the small dried fish for reward.
After a few days, the "dummies" struggled and refused to let the dolphins come to the top – by this time the "dummies" had been replaced by divers in the Soviet Navy, who were ordered to cooperate with the work.
This is so unpretentious! The angry dolphins pull hard and pull the tricky humans out of the water alive, allowing them to witness their victory over the small dried fish.
After a few days, the training place was changed from the pool to the bay, which was very much like actual combat...
However, it was also at this time that he almost lost his life. With enough room to move, the dolphins will rush to the diver like a torpedo, and after a collision, drag the diver with almost a broken rib out of the sea - a diver of more than one meter and eight meters, when dragged up, "like a baby", completely lost the ability to struggle.
In hindsight, I learned that the dolphins in the game are still very reserved, in nature, dolphins and sharks are natural enemies of each other, and the dolphin's trick against the great white shark is that when the head hits, it will often knock the shark belonging to the cartilaginous fish to rupture the liver.
Divers have harder bones than sharks, but they also have the feeling of shifting their limbs every time they train. They cried bitterly, but because of the order and Galina's harshness (yes, her comrades commented that Galina was gentle in her work), they had to continue to play this "deadly game" with the dolphins.
Some of them did not expect that it was this kind of training that would allow them to survive when they infiltrated the US military base to conduct reconnaissance.
【To be continued】