British Navy Mistook Whales for Russian Spy Devices.

The Royal Navy detected two mysterious sounds in the ocean off the coast of Scotland and began searching for Russian drones. However, it turned out that it was gas released from a whale, not a spy attack. This was reported by The Sun newspaper.

Twice, the fleet's sensors recorded suspicious activity, leading to a search of the area for hostile actions. There was suspicion that a Russian drone might have dropped a listening device on the seabed between the island of Rassay and Applecross in northwest Scotland.

'We analyzed the sounds and believe it was a whale,' a fleet representative told The Sun.

Initially, scientists suspected that the noise was caused by humans. There was a hypothesis that the Russians were trying to record submarine sounds to track them more easily and pose a threat to crews. Suspicion arose due to the presence of two civilian vessels equipped with underwater robots operating in a 300-meter-deep channel in the same area.

Previously, whales had been mistakenly perceived as hostile submarines. A few years ago, off the coast of Norway, fishermen spotted a 'spy whale'. It was named Hvaldimir, combining the Norwegian word 'hval' (whale) and the Russian name 'Vladimir'. Later, Hvaldimir was found dead near the coast of Norway, and it was first spotted near the Russian-Norwegian maritime border. The whale was equipped with a camera.

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