Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it.
Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.
The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
For some reason surfing... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.
Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
The first time I almost died was surfing: I got hit on the head with a board. I went under and started swimming until I hit the bottom of the ocean. I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going the wrong way. Do I have enough air to get back up?' If you're a surfer, you know the feeling.
Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.
Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That's just not how I do things.