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Sign at Hammerfest Harbour in Norwegian and English warning against interfering with Hvaldimir. The whale appeared beginning on 26 April 2019 north of Hammerfest, off the island of Ingøya and near the village of Tufjord on the island of Rolvsøya, wearing a tight-fitting camera harness labelled "Equipment St. Petersburg", and rubbing against boats in apparent attempts to free himself.
The Russian military has a history of trying to weaponize sea mammals, CBS News previously reported. Last year, British military spies said Russia appeared to be training combat dolphins to ...
The sudden death of the beloved whale and alleged Russian spy took an unexpected turn toward a possible murder mystery Wednesday as ... The groups shared photos with what appear to be streaks of ...
The harness clips also reportedly read “Equipment St. Petersburg," which fueled rumors that Hvaldimir was trained to be a spy by the Russian navy, CNN said. For more People news, make sure to ...
A secret 1960s CIA project known as Project OXYGAS envisioned dolphin saboteurs trained to attach explosive devices to enemy ships. In 2019, Hvaldimir, a beluga whale found with a Russian harness, which had a GoPro camera mount but no camera, and the words "Equipment St Petersburg" (written in English) may have been trained as a guard whale or ...
The Russian military's dolphin program is believed to have languished in the early 1990s. [ 2 ] A Soviet military Beluga whale named Tichka twice escaped in 1991 and 1992, crossed the Black Sea and was admired by the residents of the Turkish town Gerze, who called him Aydın.
Hvaldimir, a white beluga whale that was rumored to be a Russian spy, has been found dead in waters off Norway.
Remote-control underwater "spy cameras" disguised as sea creatures – including dolphins, ray, sea turtle, tuna, squid, nautilus and pufferfish – allowed the film-makers to get close-up footage of natural dolphin behaviour. Bottlenose dolphins, spinner dolphins, humpback dolphins and killer whales were filmed for the series. [5]