
Photo: Flip Nicklin/Minden/FLPA
Roughly a year ago I went skin diving with dolphins in Honduras. We were told that the dolphins liked to play catch with eel grass. I dove to the bottom, pulled up a handful of eel grass and held it out in front of me. A dolphin would swim up and I would put some eel grass in its mouth. The dolphin would spit it out and I would grab it and we would start the game again. It was hard to tell if I was playing with the dolphin or the dolphin was playing with me. I would have loved to be able to communicate with these fascinating creatures. Now scientists may have developed computers that will allow divers to communicate directly with dolphins for the first time.
Talk with a dolphin via underwater translation machine
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Mickey Mouse now apparently owns SEAL Team 6, or at least the name. Disney has filed three trademark applications to to claim the rights to the phrase “SEAL Team 6.” 

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How can you tell when you have too many aircraft carriers? Possibly, when you start using this expensive hardware for sporting venues.
On March 24, 1989 the third mate on the
The perhaps poorly named MV Double Prosperity, loaded with 65,000 tons of coal, grounded on Bakud Reef on Sunday in Sarangani Bay in the Philippines.




For those in the US, the National Geographic Channel is featuring a a program “Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes” this evening at 10PM. Looks interesting.