Silent Enemies: Part 3 – No Easy Way Out

Responsibility is rarely convenient, whether underwater or in food safety. In Part 3 of Silent Enemies, Dr Darin Detwiler explores the cost of compromise and confronting hard choices.

There was a saying in the Navy: “Train like you fight.”

This meant every drill had to feel real: no shortcuts, no scripts, no skipping the hard parts.

We prepared for fires hot enough to melt steel, floods strong enough to crush lungs and reactor failures that demanded precision down to the last breath. Electrical faults, power loss, enemy attacks we might never face – we had to master them all anyway.

We trained for catastrophe: not when it was convenient, but until it became second nature. Because at the bottom of the ocean, the worst-case scenario does not send a warning. It simply arrives.

But there was one moment that never made it into the drills; one I still think about.

Read Part 3 here: Silent Enemies: No Easy Way Out