Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Gabriel Wisdom and Petty Officer 3rd Class Carmen Caver | U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters | 12.01.2025
U.S. Coast Guard coxswains are highly trained small-boat operators responsible for the safety of their crew, passengers, and vessel while ensuring safe navigation, effective operation, and mission completion. Surfmen, heavy-weather, search-and-rescue, and tactical coxswains each require specialized training, and many Coast Guard coxswains hold multiple coxswain qualifications. (U.S. Coast......
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Travis Magee | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest | 02.03.2023
Students attend the elite 47-Foot Motor Lifeboat Surfman Course at the U.S. Coast Guard's National Motor Lifeboat School in Ilwaco, Washington, Feb. 3, 2023. On the final day of the course, the students assisted in a multi-unit response to rescue a mariner after a wave capsizes the 32-foot disabled motor vessel Sand Piper near Astoria, Oregon. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class......
Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Clark | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest | 05.29.2020
An MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew departs the scene after hoisting six surfers in distress from cliffs near Yaquina Head, Oregon, May 29, 2020. Two Station Yaquina Bay 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crews provided support and remained in the area after responding. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Martini)...
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Jetta Disco | U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters | 02.27.2019
Lt. Jessica Shafer, Commanding Officer of Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment talks about what it takes to overcome obstacles, and adversity to pursue your goal in an interview conducted Feb. 27, 2019 in Ilwaco, Washington. Shafer if the first female CO of Sta. Cape Disappointment and was stationed at the adjoining National Motor Lifeboat School as a non-rate. U.S. Coast Guard video by......
Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class David Micallef | U.S. Coast Guard East | 03.03.2018
The crew of Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light, New Jersey, conducts offshore surf and heavy weather training during a nor'easter off Long Beach Island, New Jersey, Saturday, March 3, 2018. The unit's crewmembers, including Surfmen, who are the Coast Guard's most highly trained boat handlers, took advantage of the heavy weather to administer Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric Thornton's Surfman......
Courtesy Video | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest | 11.21.2016
47-foot Motor Life Boat crews from Coast Guard Station Quillayute River in La Push, Wash., Station Siuslaw River in Florence, Ore., Station Tillamook Bay in Garibaldi and Station Yaquina Bay in Newport conduct heavy weather surf training throughout 2016. The majority of Coast Guard surf stations are located in the 13th district along the Oregon and Washington coasts. U.S. Coast Guard......
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read | U.S. Coast Guard Northwest | 04.28.2016
Three retired Coast Guard boatswain's mates share the impact the late Master Chief Petty Officer David Duren had on their careers in the Coast Guard, April 28, 2016. The three men are fellow surfman, who still live or work along the Oregon coastline. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read....
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nate Littlejohn | U.S. Coast Guard East | 01.04.2016
Coast Guard 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crewmembers and operators train on North Carolina’s Outer Banks during January 2016. Surfmen and their crews operate in some of the harshest maritime environments the world has to offer. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Nate Littlejohn, Station Oregon Inlet and Capt. Joseph Dufresne...
