Owwie this inch of sea water is coooold mamaaaaa lmao

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      Yeah, it’s a part of their doctrine that if someone in your 2 man team goes overboard, you dive in after them.

      In calm waters, this boosts the chance of survival

      In rough waters, at night, winter, in rough seas, wearing camo, where you were boarding an enemy vessel? They both died.

      However, since the US military operates on a “if we don’t find a corpse, they’re MIA/POW”, add another 2 people to the MIA/POW list. Poseidon is holding 2 USian dipshits hostage, possibly in Indochina. Gotta declare war on the ocean like Caligula

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      Yeah because I think both of them were wearing a 100lb of tacticool gear and the first guy slipped and sank like a rock and then the next one that went after him never resurfaced. Crabs probably got some tasty treats though.

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    It’s bonkers how much of this stuff is shoved down my throat on social media. Just thousands of people bursting to salute the troops.

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    When I was a kid watching who’s line is it anyway and they did that thing where Wayne Brady makes up a song about an audience members job and I’d never heard of a Navy Seal and misheard it as Baby Seel and my parents had to explain that one

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    The rest of the navy has boats planes can land on. Dudes with flippers and guns aren’t a genuine aquatic threat to anything. Also orcas are the mist dangerous predator in the ocean to not humans and fucking jellyfish are the most dangerous

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      One navy seal vs a 0.2 inch jellyfish

      I’m not even kidding there is a tiny jellyfish that is apparently really dangerous

      The Irukandji jellyfish are any of several similar, extremely venomous species of rare box jellyfish. With a very small adult size of about a cubic centimetre (1 cm3 or 0.061 in3), they are both one of the smallest and one of the most venomous jellyfish in the world.

      They fire their stingers into their victim, causing a condition known in humans as Irukandji syndrome, which can be fatal and difficult to immediately recognise due to the delayed effects of the venom.

      Irukandji jellyfish’s stings are so severe they can cause fatal brain hemorrhages and on average send 50–100 people to the hospital annually.

      Robert Drewe describes the sting as “100 times as potent as that of a cobra and 1,000 times stronger than a tarantula’s”.

      Between 1 January and early December 2020, 23 stings, seven of which required admission to hospital for Irukandji syndrome, were sustained in the waters around Palm Island, off northern Queensland.

      It is unknown how many other deaths from Irukandji syndrome have been wrongly attributed to other causes like heart attacks and drownings.