Surfwars: when your life is on the line, how are you going to call?
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Cape Disappointment, WA, is the home of the US Coast Guard's National Motor Lifeboat School. It is only training facility for rough weather and heavy surf operations in the country. The teachers, called Surfmen, are water-reading experts assigned to selected Coast Guard stations.
Publication Name: Boating
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0006-5374
Year: 1997
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Good to go
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Civilian boating enthusiasts can learn a great deal from Navy Seals personnel about boat handling. Pistris Inc is a company which specializes in training basic boat handling and navigation, high-speed tactics, counter-terrorism and hostile boarding methods.
Publication Name: Boating
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0006-5374
Year: 1999
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The new school: because women ask for directions
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A boating enthusiast in South Carolina set up a boating school for women in 1991 that promises to teach without yelling or public humiliation. Steele discovered that boating sales increased after more students learned to handle boats properly.
Publication Name: Boating
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0006-5374
Year: 1999
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