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1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 min. 30 sec.) ; 159825133 bytes |
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Only thirteen men remain on the course and the training is becoming more severe.The surviving recruits face the nightmare of maritime tactical operations where sleep becomes a distant memory. Clearance divers must be able to carry out clandestine reconnaissance operations behind enemy lines. To achieve this, they use a special re-breather or bubble free diving set and conduct their operations under the cover of night.During this module the men must reach new levels of fitness. They must also prove they are a team tight enough to face the potentially fatal consequences of operating behind enemy lines.It means around the clock diving, brutal fitness sessions and debilitating sleep deprivation.Teamwork will be the key to their success. The oldest man on the course by ten years, ex rugby league footballer Gareth Foye, knows age makes him the weakest link and he is worried, "I feel like a rhinoceros in quicksand".On top of an already fierce training regimen the instructors penalise any mistakes with team push-ups. They add them to an ongoing tally that can reach the hundreds by the end of the day. Push-ups not completed by midnight are carried forward. At their lowest point the men are asked to do the impossible. Because of poor performance and sleep deprived mistakes the men have tallied up an incredible one thousand, seven hundred push-ups. They are now ordered to complete them immediately in one gruesome session. They then face the most complex and dangerous operation yet: a full-scale clandestine night mission that will be their toughest test so far and one they cannot afford to fail. It will be the closest they come in their training to real combat. PRODUCTION DETAILS:A Prospero Production for ABC TV. Produced with the assistance of ScreenWest and Screen Australia. ABC TV Commissioning Editor: Dasha Ross. Producers: Julia Redwood & Ed Punchard. Directors: Russell Vines & Steve Westh |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2011-01-21 at 20:00:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Diving -- Training.
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Military education.
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Navies.
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Sea control.
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Streaming video
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McCluskey, Bill, cast
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Vines, Russell, director
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