Talking to Dolphins is Illegal (Because of what they can tell us.)

Pollution is ok - we can dump all the trash we want into the oceans. So any law prohibiting communicating with dolphins, allegedly to avoid disturbing them, is not being honest with people. More likely, with underwater technology built by:

The U.S. Navy and foreign navies

Ancient Civilizations from before the last pole shift

Extraterrestrials

Someone in charge just doesn’t want dolphins to tell us what they know about beneath the waves.

Long ago, there were experiments attempting to establish communication. In 1964 Margaret Lovatt joined the dolphin research lab run by Dr. John Lilly and Gregory Bateson in Florida. Carl Sagan and Frank Drake and others at NASA, hoping to communicate with alien species, were very interested. But Dr. Lilly grew obsessed with LSD and experiments on dolphins soon devolved into drugging them, and a sort of romantic relationship between Margaret and a dolphin named Peter that ended in Peter’s suicide after being separated from Margaret (and her… manual stimulations.)

When I do a Google search their AI tells me “Yes, it is illegal to talk to or interact with wild dolphins in the U.S. under the [1972] Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as any interaction is considered harassment. This is because getting too close, which includes speaking to them, can disrupt their natural behaviors, cause them to become dependent on humans for food, and can be dangerous for both dolphins and people. Violations can lead to fines of up to $100,000 and a year in prison.”

Rules for thee, not for me - the Navy says. “The U.S. Navy trains dolphins for tasks like mine detection, mine neutralization, and harbor security because of their natural abilities, such as echolocation and deep-diving capabilities. Dolphins are trained to find and mark enemy swimmers, locate and recover lost equipment, and detect and mark submerged mines. While training emphasizes defensive and non-lethal tasks, rumors have circulated about dolphins being used for offensive purposes.”

“The U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program (NMMP) is a program administered by the U.S. Navy which studies the military use of marine mammals - principally bottlenose dolphins… In 1967 the NMMP was classified and has since evolved into a major black budget program. The Point Mugu facility and its personnel were relocated to Point Loma in San Diego, and placed under the control of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego. Additionally, a laboratory was established in Hawaii at the Marine Corps Air Station on Kāneʻohe Bay… There are five marine mammal teams, each trained for a specific type of mission. Each human-animal team is known in military jargon by a “mark” number (MK for short)... These teams can be deployed at 72 hours’ notice by ship, aircraft, helicopter, and land vehicle to regional conflicts or staging areas around the world.”

Norwegian fisherman removed a Russian harness labeled St. Petersburg off a Beluga whale that came up to their ships in 2019

and assumed it was a “whale that was trained by the Russian navy as part of a programme to use underwater mammals as a special ops force.”

Looking into dolphin communication further, many online posts mention the benefits of “dolphin assisted births” and some posts say: “if you pay attention to their abilities you’ll understand why” and “because dolphins communicate with their minds more than they do with their clicks and their echolocation they [CIA?] do not want humans learning that because then humans can communicate with each other with just their brains [natural ESP abilities] and that would be a bad thing” for security agencies and governments who function on lies and secrets.

Are we prohibited from communicating with dolphins because they would teach us that ESP exists and that we can communicate with each other - and other species? It it because they have seen things beneath the waves and would tell us about ancient civilizations from before the last pole shift? Would dolphins tell us about something in the oceans right now, something intelligence agencies desperately want to keep secret? I don’t know the reasons, I just find it odd that such a prohibition exists - and there must be a reason.

Please comment if you have ideas.