Navy SEAL Rates 9 Underwater Missions In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

"Thats not how you play Varsity level hide and seek" That sentence alone warrants that he return for another video

"If I don't turn and look at it, it never happened" Words to live by 🤣

I love the highly trained SEAL operator "Nope, not looking, if I didn't see it, it didn't happen"

I love how he takes all the romanticization out of being a Navy SEAL. "Varsity level hide and seek." "Being wet sucks." "We don't do that." "Gunshots are loud, even with a suppressor." "We don't fight with knives underwater."

I love the description of what SEALs do as “varsity level hide and seek”

I can’t believe Andy actually did this, he always said he would never do one of these types of videos haha glad to see him finally crack

I love how brutally truthful he is on his ratings. It also makes his high ratings even more meaningful.

“Varsity level hide and seek” is now officially my favorite way saying special forces missions.

Andy's face is permanently stuck in sarcasm mode and you've got to love it.

For those who dont know: This guy was part of team 6 and was trained by retired elite covert CIA/navy seal/delta force commando Bryan Callen

"bloop here we are in the water" Might be the greatest adorable way to describe the moment immediately before a WHOLE lot of people die.

I was a British Army Diver and trained at the Royal Engineer Diving School (REDS) in Marchwood Southampton, England. I was also a course standby rescue diver /instructor at the school for a spell. We mostly trained for reconnaissance, beach assault recces and blowing up obstacles as we were all Combat Engineers too. Mostly we laid charges on the beach and not in the water. Getting there was usually by small fast patrol craft or swimming in from a sub. Navigation and long distance swimming was the main training. It never ever occurred to me that I'd ever have to fight some other diver underwater. The most dangerous equipment I used was an Oxy Hydrogen cutting torch and a Coxs' Bolt firing gun. Both used for salvage work and not combat related. Most diving scenes in the movies are absolute crap and are sometimes ludicrously funny too. But they are movies and the real thing would just be too boring for the viewers I guess.

"Act of Valor" was actually ordered by the Navy to boost NSW recruitment. Directed by Scott Waugh, the same guy who had been shooting Navy commercials for years at that time. The movie not only had full support from the US Navy: They used actual active duty Navy SEALs who said they had to make a lot of concessions for the movie to have a theatrical release. The platoon leader, Rorke Denver, wrote a book called "Damn Few" where he dedicates an entire section to the making of Act of Valor.

Love that even a SEAL will say "Screw that" when it comes to cave diving.

Andy, thanks. I had two "buddy breathing" events. Well, one and sort of one. I recall both whenever I see movie scenes like those. My friend and I were diving a sink hole in the middle of an orange grove in Florida. We were at about 100' and could feel my air getting "tight." I pulled my J valve and started swimming towards my friend who was about 50' away, same depth (I know, too far). About the time I got to him, my reserve was giving out and I gave the hand signal for no air. We headed for the surface buddy breathing with no panic. What I didn't realize is that I swallowed a crapload of water during the regulator mouthpiece exchanges (no octopus rig) on the way and barfed it all up when we surfaced. Second one, cave diving in Crystal River, Florida. My friend and I were diving a "bowl" where there was about a 6' sort of triangular hole near the bottom of the bowl. I'd been there before many times and it was my friend's first time. Once you got past the hole entrance, it opened up into a really cool cave and you could poke around in there. It wasn't all that big (you didn't need a guide rope), but just looked cool. My friend was having trouble equalizing his ear pressure at the entrance (about 40') to the hole, so I went on without him (never leave your buddy!) While poking around, I found a smallish entrance to another cave I'd never seen before. I poked my one arm and light into it and saw another huge cavern. So, I tried to go in. Well, as I tried, my tank was hitting the top of the entrance and I had no idea my air valve was turning off every time I hit the top. Finally, I went to take a breath, and no air...just the clicking of my regulator diaphragm. I pushed myself out of that hole, tried a few more times to breathe, no dice, just clicking. I made for the triangular entrance and there was my friend, still trying to depressurize his ears. I made the "no air" signal and his eyes went as wide as dinner plates...no offer of his mouthpiece. I almost pulled it out of his mouth to take a breath, but he was a new diver and I thought that may freak him out so I said "screw it" to myself and just made for the surface. I just about made it when I was a few inches from the surface and just had to take a breath, swallowed a crapload of water again and the next 5 minutes I was coughing up my lungs. Lessons learned: The Sink Hole: Don't let your buddy get too far from you. When you pull a J valve "at depth" go for the surface right away, 4 or 500 psi doesn't last long. I wasted a lot of that by swimming too far to my buddy. The Cave: Never go anywhere without your buddy close at hand. Even though he knew hand signals, he was shocked and frozen to see me give the no air signal. I should have stopped trying to get into the cave and the first bump. Later, I realized that I could have taken my tank off, pushed it through the hole, then my body. I should have recognized that my air had turned off. Had I, I could have just reached behind me and turned it back on. I also should have dumped my tank and weight belt before heading up on the final push for the surface. I had to use more air in my body to propel the "extra" weight. Bottom line - I'm lucky to be here.

Guy is a legend. The fact that we have these guys looking after us is extremely comforting.

They need to have him review any of the Steven Seagal movies. I hear he's a huge fan of him...

Love the expert and his calm and clear way of communicating. That's one of the best episodes of your series. As being a diver too, I'd love to hear more from him and his experience.

"You don't have to use a flare. I mean, they make flashlights!" That sounded a lot like my dad when, out of sheer laziness, I was using a flathead screwdriver on an allen screw. "You know... we do have other screwdrivers in the house..." (we kinda had about 40 screwdrivers, but I was too lazy to go and pick one) I love it when professionals point out the nonsense!!!

Was it a shark? “If I didn’t look, it didn’t happen” man that sounds terrifying! Badass tho! Fearless! What a legend!