The Wider Image: Inside Taiwan’s brutal navy frogmen bootcamp

Ou Zhi-Xuan, 25, helps to carry a rubber boat out of the sea during the last week of a ten week program to become a member of the Taiwan navy’s elite Amphibious Reconnaissance and Patrol unit, at Zuoying navy base, Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, December 17, 2021. The trainees have to endure everything from long marches to hours in the water, with constant screaming at by their instructors. Of the group of 31 who started the program, only 15 finished. REUTERS/Ann Wang