“While boarding the Dhow in rough seas - such searches are considered among the most dangerous naval missions - one SEAL team member fell into the ocean and a second tried to recover him.”
A Navy Seal drowned? Damn, didn’t think they could do that.
The ocean can kill even the most experienced men.
Still, there’s training videos of seals being bound and gagged and thrown into a pool with a lockpick or something at the bottom. They’re supposed to sink to the bottom, do a bunch of breaches to get air, and then sink to the bottom to collect tools and break free.
After all that I thought Navy seals were invincible in their mative habitat. I guess the ocean is so much more hardcore than all the training we can think up.
For any sailor in open sea especially rough seas of you go overboard it’s generally presumed you will not be recovered. Even carriers in smooth seas have the occasional overboard loss, somebody will slip no one notices and by the time they go dropping zodiacs and getting helos in the air they might be miles away leaving a search area of several miles.
thing about a pool is it’s only a few feet deep. you sink in the ocean, you just keep sinking. you get lost in the ocean, there’s a whole lot of ocean and you’re moving from the point that you fell into. it’s night in the ocean? no one is finding you, even if they pass by a few dozen feet away. all this, and you’re constantly fighting the whole time you’re in there without food or fresh water. Between that and temperature shock, you’re losing consciousness in 12 hours in the best case scenario and, depending on the temp of the water, maybe only a few minutes. Once you’re lost in the open ocean you are ggggoooooonnnnneeee.
The ocean is kinda like mountain climbing in Antarctica, even if youre good at mountain climbing and dealing with extreme temps combong the two is an exponential increase in difficulties.
They might be able to stay alive for days even in cold ocean water, but that doesn’t mean you’ll find them in time
Reading this in the voice of Willem Dafoe from The Lighthouse.
news aside, dear lord there are some serious american imperialism shills in this thread
Typical westoids showing their ass
Now they are with the seals.
It’s evolution.
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Nothing on Iran trying to sabotage the world?
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Just swim, I thought they would cover that in basic training
Cheap shot
Umm it’s kinda their job
I hope you’re respected in similar fashion some day and it hurts.
For a guy called mechanical jester you seem to take things awfully seriously.
Mocking SpecOps who are KIA is something generally off limits for me. I handed over a hundred of our flags to surviving family so I’m humor dysfunctional in that area. However… jokes? Okay that’s kinda funny. Best if served from combat vets I think. I regret making a fuss. Dysfunctional.
Nazi servants dying isn’t a sad event. If civilians were killed I’d be sad. Military is putting themselves in that position of their own free will.
They’re paid murderers, fuck it let em all drown.
If you’ve ever fallen off a boat into the water and been sucked under that boat and had to claw yourself back out again, you will understand why this is surprisingly non-trivial.
If you’ve been awake for 72 hours, jacked up on a pharmaceutical only God and the six most sadistic chemists at the Pentagon know about, and you just pulled yourself up on board a ship in the dead of night after tailing pirates for days, I have to image its even harder.
The Navy does prefer to kill their best and brightest in helicopter crashes. But its still very possible to get drowned to death on the job.
