Fireman Kimberly Robinson practices tossing a heaving line to a simulated vessel in distress, while fellow boat crew members at the Coast Guard’s National Motor Lifeboat School, Petty Officer 2nd Class Bryan Terry (left), of Eagle, Ida., and Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Tuttle, of Simpsonville, S.C., await their turn, 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.