Secret Agent Fish
DARPA's Underwater Intelligence Agents It's almost too good to be true. The US Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency - DARPA - is deploying fish and other marine life as underwater James Bonds. The research project is called the "Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors Program". DARPA wants to gather the responses of living marine life like shellfish to underwater vehicles. The data would be relayed back through a hardware network that also gathers and interprets the fish responses. Aquatic Surveillance This research is no tall fish tale. DARPA is a global epicenter of innovation. It created the internet, GPS, cloud computing and much more. Its mission is to provide the US military with overwhelming technological advantages. DARPA scientists believe that monitoring marine life's reaction to their environment will better track enemy manned and unmanned vehicles. They plan on using crustaceans, mollusks and certain types of fish as a s