Sarah Kanowski

We're doing a 40 kilometer run now.

So guys are throwing up and you learn to never trust the instructors because they're always messing with your head.

And absolutely, I thought, I can't get through this, but I want to get through.

I want to be tough enough to be a Navy diver.

So these are these, we talk with a rope around our waist because it's pitch black.

You can't even see your hand up against your mask.

And a lot of your diving is at nighttime, so you have to get used to being in the dark.

And I felt these five pulls.

And five pulls is as an emergency.

And we swim to the surface and the instructors are screaming at us to get out of the water.

So we put our fins in our teeth and we're going up this ladder and still they're kind of screaming, come on, let's go, let's go.

And we're thinking, what is happening?

And we run past, you know, all these like torture devices they've put us through.

And we're thinking, they're just trying to trick us again.

They're going to try to fail a few of us.

We're in the final hours, of course.

I wonder who's going to fail.

And I'm thinking, maybe it's going to be me.

Surely they've got some final trick that they're going to play that's just going to be so painful that I'm going to raise my hand and quit.

But there was no trick.