Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing off the coast of Somalia following operations in heavy seas conducted in pursuit of Iranian weapons shipments that threaten coalition forces.

Alex Horton reports for the Washington Post:

The two service members who went missing were preparing to board the ship in rough seas when one of them slipped from a ladder. The second sailor, seeing [his] comrade fall into the water, dove in to help, the officials said on the condition of anonymity to describe early assessments. The incident occurred Thursday in the Gulf of Aden.

If anyone can survive for days in the open ocean, it’d be the Navy’s SEALs. Water, above all else, is what they train for and in, and their most public training reflects this. Stop by San Diego Bay, and you’ll probably see SEALs getting dumped out of a helicopter into the middle of the harbor to swim back to Coronado Island.

Fair winds and following seas, gentlemen.