Trevor Thompson's Underwater Seal Training | Joe Rogan

What was your first appointment like? So my first one was with a team out in Hawaii where we were doing submersible work. So I drove like a 22-foot mini sub for five years. Really? Oh, yeah. And we were doing some like waterborne activities. How deep does it go? Oh, that's classified. Oh, really? But yeah, it can go really deep. Yeah, but it's a wet submarine. So run scuba. It's all like you're in the water, not just underwater. Oh, really? Yeah. So you're wearing scuba gear while you're piloting this thing. So the water gets in there? Yep. Whoa. It's a cut. You can probably pull up a picture of it. Bro, that's a mind fuck, a top of a mind fuck. SDV. Just being in a scuba is crazy, but being in a scuba gear inside of a fucking submarine. With the door shut. Oh, Jesus Christ. How much air you got in there? Enough. That's what it looks like. There she is. Whoa, that's nuts, man. That's the boat. Oh, so it's like a convertible. No, no, no. So behind those dudes, those doors are sliders. So you shut them. So because it can drive relatively fast where like if you had them open, like shit would be like so long. Bro, that looks like something from a fucking James Bond movie. That doesn't even look real. It is like something from a fucking James Bond movie. That's crazy. When we train in the daytime, it is bananas. It is wild to drive that thing. I can only imagine. Because you're landing on the back of a submarine. It's 22 feet long. Ish. I mean, that's what I recall. Fucking A, that looks cool. It looks fake. It's like if I saw that in the movie, I'm like, they don't have one of those. Yeah, that's bullshit. It does, doesn't it? It's like a human torpedo. Yeah, that's what it looks like. It looks like a fucking missile. It is. Fucking. It's pretty cool. Wow. So. That is wild. There's a ton of those things that other countries have. Like they've been using submersibles since the First World War. No. You know, when did they first invent submarines? The First World War? No, no, I think the Revolutionary War. There was a guy that like paddles ass around in a, in like a, like a barrel. It's like an oak barrel. Yeah. It's like crazy looking. Wow. It's like, I'm just gonna go. Can we imagine that first gangster to fucking climb into a metal dick and slide it in the ocean? Flicker got this. Even the guys that went the deepest did it like in the thirties or forties and no one's been able to do that again. What? They did it in some like weird. Yeah. Really? And they had a window that was like four inches across. Oh my god. I think it cracked when they got to the bottom. Oh no. Really? Oh shit. Oh my god. You imagine what, because nobody did it before so it's all just calculations of the time you actually get down there. And then you think like, back to your question, how much hair do we got? Oh my god. I guess we have enough. Oh my god. Yeah, that to me freaks me out about more than anything in the water as a submarine. The idea of being in one of them tubes and sliding around and not being able to see using sonar. And you think like, what's in the water? There's some big ass animals in the water. Big ass animals. Big ass animals. Guys, all they have to do is bump you and create a little stress fracture. I've seen whales and sharks and dolphins and all sorts of crazy shit down there. What kind of crazy shit? Oh man, we were on the bottom once and we saw this like, scorpion crab looking thing, like walking around on the ground. It was like this tall. Like, so you're making a, like a Great Dane. Yeah. Real. Like a crab. A crab like Great Dane. Underwater. Underwater. This is ridiculous. I don't know what it was but it was terrifying. Is that an undocumented animal? I'm sure it's documented. There's a bunch of those weird like spider crab looking things that walk around. Fuck. Well, they don't know what everything is in the ocean. They're constantly pulling up new shit like, look at this thing. It's like the size of a car. Like, Well, what's really weird is those really, really old ones at the bottom that people had. They only come up when they get like a tsunami, washes them ashore. Have you ever seen those websites dedicated to like the stuff that was in the Thailand tsunami? I go way down the rabbit hole on some of that crap. Those things don't even look real. And they've pulled like, I think they recently got a whale that had a spear tip in it from like 200 years ago. Or 150 years ago. Like, So it's a currently living whale? Yeah. Whoa. Yeah. So 150 years ago during the Moby Dick Day someone harpooned it. Yeah. And it lived. I'm, I think that I have heard this recently. Yeah. Wow. These animals are crazy. I mean, those Greenland sharks live to be like 300 or something. No shit. Yeah. That's what they, isn't that what they think that one of the, that's one of the theories about the Loch Ness Monster. That it might be some sort of a landlocked Greenland shark. Yeah. Or just people are full of shit. I'm going with number two. I'm going with number two. Like how you feel about Sasquatch? That's how I feel about that shit. I'm like, there's enough scary shit out there. Yeah. We don't need to make up a Loch Ness Monster. It doesn't make any sense. No. I just think that people see things in the water and then they exaggerate the size of them and then the next thing you know, they're telling a story. There's probably some shit in there with some eels. I'm sure. Or maybe a sturgeon or something like that. Sturgeon are huge the size of this desk. They're so big. And if you saw one from a distance at night, you would assume that that was a monster. Or an alligator gar. Alligator gar, yeah. Oh, here it is. Scroll down please. So I can see the title. The whale survives harpoon attack 130 years ago to become the world's oldest mammal. Look at that harpoon. Bowhead whale. I'm glad I wasn't full. Shit. Embedded in his neck. Wow. Is that not insane? It was caught off Alaska. So how'd they catch it? It's a biologist claim. The fine helps prove the bowhead is the oldest living mammal on earth. Says a 13 centimeter arrow shaped fragment dates back to around 1880. Wow. Meaning the 50 ton whale had been coasting around with his freezing Arctic waters since the Victoria. Four hidden times. That's nuts man. Wild. And since they never took calves, they estimated that the bowhead was several years old when it was first shot and about 130 when it died last month. Also it died. God damn. And it probably died because they caught it. I mean that can't be good for it. Yeah, it's just weird how many different things they used to do with the whales. They used to turn them into lamps. They used to lamp oil and shit. They used to eat them? Yeah, they still do.