Declassified Underwater Operations - SEAL Team Dive Ops with Zack Ferguson | Mike Drop #192

About this video

Ritland’s guest recounts participating in a 2018 dive operation in the Strait of Hormuz near Yemen, where his SEAL platoon conducted battle damage assessments on shipping containers that had been blown up. The guest describes free-diving to photograph and document the damage, with intel sent directly to the White House, and waiting for approval to conduct follow-on ship boardings that were never authorized.

Key takeaways

• Despite being the premier maritime special operations force, actual combat diving missions in SEAL Team history have been rare, according to the guest’s account
• The guest’s platoon conducted free-diving operations rather than closed-circuit diving due to equipment constraints and the sporadic nature of the mission
• The mission involved assessing damage to random shipping containers in Yemeni waters, with the guest noting close timing to Houthi mine-laying operations in the area

Episode details: published June 16, 2024 · 37.4K views · 8:28 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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