Selection
The RAN's diver training program is centred around a 10-day clearance diver acceptance test (CDAT), colloquially known as "hell week". Recruits begin each day at 02:00, and are put through over thirty staged dives designed to test their strength and endurance.
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—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
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