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Sunday, August 14, 2016

How The Navy Tried To Turn Sharks into Torpedos (undark.org)

 Love Sharks Don't Eat Them


Documents recently declassified show one of the odder experimental weapons developed after World War II: Weaponized sharks. 

Guided by sharp electric shocks, the sharks were trained to deliver explosive payloads -- essentially turning them into living, breathing, remote-controlled torpedoes that could be put to use in the Pacific Theater.
 
Following years of research on "shark repellent," the Navy spent 13 years building a special head gear for sharks which sensed the shark's direction and tried to deliver shocks if the sharks strayed off-course.

 The journalist who tracked down details of "Project Headgear" published the recently-declassified information on MIT's journalism site Undark, noting that "The shark wasn't so much a 'torpedo' as a suicide bomber... "

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