Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob Doescher, of Pendleton, Ore., discusses an upcoming sequence of heavy weather surf search and rescue training operations with fellow crewmembers Petty Officer 3rd Class Zacharie Howell, and Seaman Aymee Zimmer, of Spring Creek, Nev., aboard a 47’ Motor Lifeboat in the “Graveyard of the Pacific,” March 14, 2014. Students at the Coast Guard’s National Motor Lifeboat School learn to conduct a variety of search and rescue techniques in the most challenging and dangerous surf conditions.