As it turned out, that wasafalsealarm: one of the ships at the center of the media firestorm never left port and the other carried out a normal training mission in the Black Sea before quietly returning to base a few days later.
Fido can pick up the smell of TNTvapor at concentrations of just a few parts per trillion, and itwas the first sensor to find buried mines at a level comparable to dog performance, with a false-alarm rate of less than 5%.