The Guardian Page #4

This is

gonna be embarrassing.

All right, buddy.

What do you think?

What do you got?

- You think he's gonna do it?

- Yeah.

Evening, ma'am.

Can I buy you a drink?

I don't think so.

You don't know what you're missing.

You sure you wanna go with that one?

That's, like, your top-of-the-line,

A-game material?

See, the way I see it,

you got two choices here:

walk away from me,

or walk out of here with me

and split the cash.

Cash?

What cash?

The money you bet your friends

you could pick me up.

See, that makes me nervous.

She's shutting him down.

How much time you got left?

- About 20 seconds.

- Shall we?

- Oh, my gosh.

- No way.

It looks like they're leaving

the bar together, is what I see.

No way!

You have got to be kidding me.

- Unbelievable.

- How did he do that?

- I'm impressed.

- I'm impressed.

There's a bar outside your base

called Maggie's. You know it?

Yeah.

Good. Meet me there next Friday

around 8:
00?

- You got a name?

- Yeah.

Don't forget my money.

You got a middle name?

You do realize I can't go back in there.

This is the sound of death knocking.

SAR alarms and sleep deprivation

are part...

Where the hell are they?

You know, the first stages

of hypothermia are the most critical.

Why?

Because you still have

the ability to think. Say it.

You still have

the ability to think.

The decisions you make

during this stage

are gonna determine

whether you live or die.

There a reason

you're not breathing, Goldfish?

Is there a reason

why you're not breathing?

I don't know anyone

who can stay alive without breathing

for 15 minutes, Senior Chief.

Are you a coroner?

Because pronouncing people dead

is not part of our job description.

What do we always say?

There's dead

and then there's dead.

We never stop, Jake,

not from the cabin to the tarmac.

- We never stop.

- Aye, aye, Senior Chief.

- Understood?

- Yes, Senior Chief.

Okay, Jake, in the pool.

Hodge, you're up.

You're with the dummy.

All right, now. Three letters.

Three letters will get you people

a cup of hot coffee and a blanket.

What do you say, Goldfish?

I'm actually not that cold anymore,

Senior Chief.

You're not cold anymore

because blood is moving

from your outer extremities

to your heart.

That's why your arms won't work.

You can plan on spending

roughly 60% of your career

in a mildly hypothermic state.

Senior Chief, may I have a word?

Sir?

Why wasn't I informed of this?

You know, we have classrooms.

Your assignment is to simply teach

the stages of hypothermia.

Sir, in about two and a half minutes,

they'll understand.

Permission to carry on, sir?

Go ahead.

Three letters, people, will get you

a hot cup of coffee and a warm blanket.

What do you say, Class 5506?

Oorah.

This is an oxygen-deprivation

anaerobic exercise.

You and your partner

will push your brick

along the bottom of the pool,

down and back.

If you need air, you may surface.

One breath.

Your partner must remain underwater

until you return.

Your brick can only move

while both of you are touching it.

If you both surface, you both fail.

This exercise is designed

to teach you teamwork.

On my whistle, drop your gear,

enter the pool and pair up.

I said one breath, Sunkist. Let's go!

- I can't.

- Come on!

- I can't.

- "I can't."

Get your ass out of the pool! Let's go!

Come on! Lean and rest.

You wanna quit, just quit now.

I could use those new shoes.

Senior Chief, we got a problem.

Somebody's missing.

Jesus Christ.

That's gotta be a new record. Oorah.

I'm so sick of records. Go get him.

You think I'm impressed because

you can hold your breath, Goldfish?

I wouldn't venture to say

what would impress you, Senior Chief.

All right. Get him out of the pool.

We're done for the day.

Out of the pool, Fischer. Let's move.

- Oorah!

- Move your ass.

Pop tall, Sunkist.

Out of the pool.

Out of the pool.

Records.

Never stare

directly into the flame, people.

It will impair your night vision.

This is a Mark 58 flare.

This is what it looks like.

It'll light up a 50-foot swath of water

and can be detected by infrared

miles out.

This is a demonstration model.

The normal one will burn

for 40 to 60 minutes.

Hey, pay attention.

The Mark 58 is used to reference

the wind, to detect a current.

Petty Officer Watson is gonna talk

a little bit more about that.

Five minutes.

The vessel you're looking

at right now,

people, is listing to the port side.

As a rescue swimmer, when you get

to the door of the helicopter,

you need to look down

and pay attention

to what you really have down there.

It's very important

that you understand your limitations.

Limitations without understanding

are gonna get you killed.

Case in point, this vessel's trapped

in pancake ice in the Bering Sea.

And as you can see,

the crew are out on the deck

in a relatively manageable

hoisting position.

But suddenly...

Those pieces of ice can weigh in

upwards of thousands of pounds.

Now imagine yourself trapped

in between 2,000-pound pieces of ice

trying to free-swim.

Thank you, Chief.

Next scenario, Petty Officer Watson.

Before you leave

that helicopter, going down to a...

Standardization is one of the reasons

we were so successful during Katrina.

We had crews come in

from all over the country,

but it didn't matter, because we have

all been trained the same way.

I didn't know my pilot,

I didn't know my copilot,

I didn't know my flight mechanic.

But guess what?

It didn't matter, because...

That's why we do it.

So you have to get your mind

wrapped around that idea.

When that helicopter starts going,

when the wind starts coming...

Twenty!

Down! Up!

- Twenty-one!

- Down! Up!

- Twenty-two!

- Down! Up!

Twenty-three!

- Two!

- Down!

- Up!

- Three!

Don't need no land

Don't need no tree

Out in the water

That's where I wanna be

- Hey, Mags, can I have a beer?

- Sure.

Well, well.

So you are gonna

have a drink with me.

No, I'm having a drink near you.

Entirely different thing.

You're a regular lightning rod,

aren't you?

- What's your name?

- Daisy Buchanan.

You're lying, Daisy Buchanan.

- There is that possibility.

- No.

That was a sure-fire lie.

So I take it

you've read The Great Gatsby.

- Where's my money?

- It's not on me.

But it is close. In a very safe place.

Now, I've drawn a map

with a complex set of clues.

Each one is more fiendishly clever

than the last.

That works, too.

This is just a picture of your pants.

Yeah, but it's a bad picture, which is

what makes it so fiendishly clever.

Nice.

How did Emily Thomas

become a schoolteacher?

Well, how does Jake Fischer

become a guy

who wants to jump out of helicopters?

I killed a couple guys

and had to get out of Dodge.

- You're lying.

- There is that possibility.

The truth.

My bull-riding career

was going down the drain.

- Okay, that's better.

- All right, now you.

I really should go.

Go? What? No, you're not going.

We're just starting to have fun.

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