Joe Rogan Experience #2543 - MrBallen · Aired Aug 20, 2026
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Second phase SEAL training includes a pool competency test which is 20 minutes long.
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Pool competency is real and it is one of the most feared parts of Second Phase, where instructors sabotage a diver's gear underwater to see whether he keeps his head and works the problem. What it is not is a single 20 minute block. It is a series of separate underwater tests, and the published descriptions of the phase do not define it by a fixed running time.
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Is it true that Second phase SEAL training includes a pool competency test which is 20 minutes long?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Pool competency is real and it is one of the most feared parts of Second Phase, where instructors sabotage a diver's gear underwater to see whether he keeps his head and works the problem. What it is not is a single 20 minute block. MrBallen said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2543 - MrBallen, aired Aug 20, 2026, at 38:44. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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