Seaman Aymee Zimmer, of Spring Creek, Nev., assisted

Seaman Aymee Zimmer, of Spring Creek, Nev., assisted by Petty Officer 3rd Class Zacharie Howell, secures a drum containing a P-6 dewatering pump in preparation for passing it to a simulated vessel in distress, while Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob Doescher, of Pendleton, Ore., tends the line, during heavy weather surf training operations 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.