Students and boat crew personnel at the Coast Guard’s National Motor Lifeboat School practice passing P-6 dewatering pumps and other rescue gear to a simulated vessel in distress, during heavy weather surf training operations at the Coast Guard’s National Motor Lifeboat School, March 14, 2014. Future surfmen in the NMLBS Heavy Weather Coxswain course learn to conduct a variety of search and rescue techniques in relatively calm water first, before later mastering them in the most challenging and dangerous surf conditions.