John Crawley

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1,569 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Apr

John Crawley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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One was I don't like heights and you have to parachute out of planes.

But, you know, like somebody once said, you don't got to love it, you just got to do it.

And then...

I wasn't a very strong swimmer.

I actually lied when I got interviewed for Recon.

You have to be a first-class swimmer.

And I lied and I said I was a second-class swimmer and said I was first-class, you know.

But fortunately, the captain interviewing me didn't look at my records, you know.

I did have a first-class physical fitness test and all that.

But I found the swimming some of the toughest training.

You know, the underwater stuff, you have to go in the water, your arms and –

You know, your feet are tied together, your arms behind your back.

You have to bounce off the bottom and you have to do what they call drown proofing, things like that.

And it can really psych you out.

Diving underwater at night, pitch dark blackness, you know.

I was literally, after seeing the movie Jaws, that 1975, Jaws just come out and I seen it just before I went to do scuba training in the Philippines.

So I remember diving underwater at night in the, you know, in the South, in the Pacific, wasn't a very relaxing experience, you know.

But no, it was all good.

It was all good.

But it's like, you know, it is 90% mental.

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