‘It’s a miserable time’: Retired Navy SEAL chief on ‘Hell Week’ after candidate’s death

CORONADO, Calif. — Just hours after finishing a grueling training, two Navy SEAL candidates were rushed to the hospital, one of them died at Sharp Coronado Friday afternoon.

Their Basic Underwater Demolition Seal Training (BUD/S) class had just completed what’s known as “Hell Week”.

““It is a miserable time, it is well-named,” said Paul Anderson, a retired Navy Seal Chief. “It’s a gut check. You get approximately four hours of sleep the whole week. You are constantly doing physical evolutions whether it’s physical obstacles, going in and out of the surf zone with your boats, running, you are constantly wet and you are always sandy.”

Veteran Paul Anderson said it’s hard to know what caused the undisclosed sickness the two sailors suffered.

Navy officials said the sailors reported symptoms after training.

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