Saw this on a blog this morning and I thought it had to be a joke, but, err… apparently not.

K-Dog, a bottle nose dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit 55.4.3, leaps out of the water while training near the USS Gunston Hall in the Arabian Gulf, March 18, 2003. The multinational team is there conducting deep/shallow water mine countermeasure operations to clear shipping lanes for humanitarian relief. REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Brien Aho