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2022-02-07 -Obits-

Navy SEAL candidate dies and a second is hospitalized after completing 'Hell Week' in San Diego: Five day course sees recruits run 200 miles, work out for 20 hours-a-day and sleep fewer than four hours

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 My naps are longer than 4 hours!

Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-07 02:07|| 2022-02-07 02:07|| Front Page Top

#2 It is unclear what 'symptoms' the pair displayed.

If they got the mRNA vaccine, it's a good bet those were cardiac symptoms eg myocarditis

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-07 02:22|| 2022-02-07 02:22|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ The fact we'll probably never be told, is also another good bet.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-07 03:28|| 2022-02-07 03:28|| Front Page Top

#4 The past few weeks SoCal weather has been nice during the day.
But in the morning and at night it can be quite cold.
And the water can be quite cold.
Hypothermia can put quite a strain on the heart too.

Posted by boomerc 2022-02-07 07:05|| 2022-02-07 07:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Unrelated to the tragic story:

Had a dual-Karma moment yesterday afternoon on I-24 headed Southbound toward Nashville. Traffic stopped, accident or something. A few minutes passed, cars began driving along the shoulder (emergency lane) back North to an 'on ramp.' First one, then dozens. As soon as it began, it stopped. Off in the distance behind me, a sea of blue flashing lights. KARMA !

About fifteen minutes later, the traffic began to slowly move. In the grassy median between the North and South bound highways, cars appear. First one then a half dozen or more, joined by a large Dodge 4x4 pick-up buried rear axel deep. All stuck in the mud as they were attempting to cross over the median and head back North. KARMA !

Do not tell me there is no Gawd.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-07 07:16|| 2022-02-07 07:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Israeli Ministry of Health study reported in New England Jourbal of Medicine involving over 150,000 young men who received Pfizer vaccine found that within 30 days of the second jab, the myocarditis rate for boys (~1 in 12,000) was about 10x higher than normal.

Nb. That's just the risk of one type of heart effect, myocarditis, and only within the first 30 days of receiving Pfizer's experimental gene therapy. The real rate of serious adverse cardiac damage, over a lifetime, is even higher.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-07 09:45|| 2022-02-07 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I believe somebody's reporting wasn't careful enough. There's not a chance that candidates "run more than 200 miles" during the 5 and a half days. That's basically all they would have time to do--that's a marathon and a half every 24 hours for 5 straight days. I've read David Goggins book and he makes no mention of that kind of distance. In fact, he makes no mention of running those kind of distances until after he had already completed the hell weeks he went thru.

Posted by Crusader 2022-02-07 10:55|| 2022-02-07 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, think 2 miles from the compound to the mess hall ~x6<> is 18. Add a fast 25 mile ruck and you've got about 40x5 days~200.

These guys are studs.
Get the 2 mile run @8-10 minutes/mile [prob closer to 5] and the 'marathon' at a [easy] 4:30 pace. Say 6 hours on the road, 30 minutes to eat, and 4 hours of sleep leaves plenty of time for swimming and PT.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-07 12:01|| 2022-02-07 12:01|| Front Page Top

#9 David Groggins

Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-07 12:03|| 2022-02-07 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll stick by my earlier assertion--the candidates do not "run more than 200 miles" during the 5 and a half days. I read David Goggins book and he made no mention of those kinds of distances until he had long cleared the hell weeks he endured.

The candidates are indeed "physical studs", but they are also of each of the 3 different body types. Marathon runners tend to be almost exclusively "ectomorphs". For an endomorpho or mesomorph to bang out 200 miles in a 5 day period while also doing all of the other grueling tasks that comprise hell week is an assertion I have read nowhere else. The reporter had to be incorrect, or the reporter's source was incorrect.

Posted by Crusader 2022-02-07 12:36|| 2022-02-07 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 Agreed the 200 miles is an exaggeration. But I have spent time at Coronado and watched them. It is grueling. I am surprised more have not died, the better statistic would be how many are medical out. They are hypothermic for most of the training. Its crazy.

Posted by 49 Pan 2022-02-07 17:22|| 2022-02-07 17:22|| Front Page Top

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