I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.
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.
I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.
My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.
I have my own boat, but when I first thought about taking a cruise, I thought, 'You're going to trap me on a boat, and I'm going to walk in circles and go crazy,' but it's awesome.
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.