Subdeacon Joe Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 You've Got to Sea This!!! credit: Dave Rogers U.S. Coast Guard training exercise for shallow surf rescues. Ocean Beach - San Francisco 12/13/18 Join us @ NorCal Wild! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 I've always admired Coasties but I gotta tell you two things: 1. They are certifiably nuts to do that sort of work. 2. They don't get paid anywhere near enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 Not only NO! But HELL NO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 Used to be said that most Coast Guard and Navy came from the center of the country where there are no large bodies of water. Wonder if that was / is true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted December 17, 2023 Share Posted December 17, 2023 ya gotta go out , BUT , ya AIN"T gotta come back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I'd be puking after about 10 minutes of that. That's just the motion part of it. They'll never worry about needing to rescue me. I don't like deep water of any kind. Once the water gets over 5'- 5 1/2' deep, there's no real reason for me to go any further. Ocean or lake. To hell with that scuba diving and snorkeling too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I'm impressed by those Coast Guard guys who hover the helicopter over the deck of a sinking ship during a hurricane to winch up the crew. That takes a lot of skill, training, confidence and big brass ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 We saw some pretty heavy seas on my ship, but nothing like that. Thank goodness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I grew up not far up the lake from a Coast Guard station. Heros every one. The Big Lake (Michigan, for you furiners) is no joke. I've seen it during a good storm and it scared the hell out of me from shore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 18, 2023 Author Share Posted December 18, 2023 13 minutes ago, Badlands Bob #61228 said: I'm impressed by those Coast Guard guys who hover the helicopter over the deck of a sinking ship during a hurricane to winch up the crew. That takes a lot of skill, training, confidence and big brass ones. At night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 18, 2023 Author Share Posted December 18, 2023 The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department helicopter, Henry-1, has sometimes worked with USCG on beach and cliff rescues. One that sticks in my mind was a small craft that went around somewhere near the Marin Headlands. No beach, just cliffs and rocks. I think they lowered the medic about 300' on the line to pull the guy out at 0300 in a storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I don’t watch reality tv shows, if that’s the right term. But I watched one on the Coast Guard and sea rescues. It was very impressive to see what those folks can and are willing to do to rescue people in very dire situations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Dan Dawkins Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I about got sick from watching the Perfect Storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 seems to me thats how to wreck a perfectly good boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 18, 2023 Author Share Posted December 18, 2023 1 hour ago, watab kid said: seems to me thats how to wreck a perfectly good boat They are practicing to save people who have done just that. Imagine having to be the rescue swimmer in surf like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Dang! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 Well, it can't be too bad....... the camera man never flinched. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 16 hours ago, Michigan Slim said: I grew up not far up the lake from a Coast Guard station. Heros every one. The Big Lake (Michigan, for you furiners) is no joke. I've seen it during a good storm and it scared the hell out of me from shore. When the wind comes from the North, the waves on Lake Michigan can get like the worst ones on Superior! And they can come up quick! When I was a teen, my uncle had a 52 ft. ChrisCraft. We wer over on the Michigan side, and things got pretty rough. He had a radio on board that had a more powerful transmitter than was later allowed, but it was a good thing we did. We heard a call from a smaller boat calling the Coast Guard station, as they had run aground stern first. The man had gotten his family off okay, but wanted help pulling his boat off. The Coast Guard station couldn't hear him, but we could. We relayed the request to the station and they sent a 36 foot double-ended boat down, and we circled well offshore until they could get within range of the boat's radio. Exciting! God Bless the Coasties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 One of the weirdest things I remember about Lake Michigan is when I was in the Navy in Great Lakes NTC the winter of 79-80 the lake froze. In March I remember we had warm temps then it got cold and windy. I woke up before sunrise to a loud crack or boom. I heard a couple more and I put on my sweat pants, tee shirt, shoes and grabbed a jacket and headed to the quarterdeck of our BEQ (barracks). There were a few people just outside so I went outside as well. We heard the loud cracking and a security patrol pulled up and said the ice on the lake was shifting and the wind from the east was blowing chunks of ice together. We said we were going to go check it out and were told the beach was off limits until further notice. After gunnery school that day me and some friends went to the beach through a shortcut some girls showed me and the sight of those huge chunks of ice piling up against the shore was pretty impressive. We weren’t close to the ice but were considering getting closer when were seen by the security patrol. We figured we were busted so we waited for them to come to us. Running would have meant searches of the gunnery and fire control BEQs and we didn’t want the drama. They were pretty cool about us being there but said that if they had caught us on the ice they would have run us in and we would have stood Captains Mast. Apparently in the past there were some accidents and sailors died or were badly injured by ice breaks coming together. That’s why the beach was off limits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 I recall being on the north shore of Superior, solid ice as far as you could see from a high point. Noise in the night and azure ice piled high against the rocky shore in morning with open water beyond again, as far as you could see. If the house hadn't been high on a rocky point it would have been buried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 1 hour ago, Pat Riot said: One of the weirdest things I remember about Lake Michigan is when I was in the Navy in Great Lakes NTC the winter of 79-80 the lake froze. In March I remember we had warm temps then it got cold and windy. I woke up before sunrise to a loud crack or boom. I heard a couple more and I put on my sweat pants, tee shirt, shoes and grabbed a jacket and headed to the quarterdeck of our BEQ (barracks). There were a few people just outside so I went outside as well. We heard the loud cracking and a security patrol pulled up and said the ice on the lake was shifting and the wind from the east was blowing chunks of ice together. We said we were going to go check it out and were told the beach was off limits until further notice. After gunnery school that day me and some friends went to the beach through a shortcut some girls showed me and the sight of those huge chunks of ice piling up against the shore was pretty impressive. We weren’t close to the ice but were considering getting closer when were seen by the security patrol. We figured we were busted so we waited for them to come to us. Running would have meant searches of the gunnery and fire control BEQs and we didn’t want the drama. They were pretty cool about us being there but said that if they had caught us on the ice they would have run us in and we would have stood Captains Mast. Apparently in the past there were some accidents and sailors died or were badly injured by ice breaks coming together. That’s why the beach was off limits. Somebody disappears through a hole in the stacked ice every year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 34 minutes ago, Michigan Slim said: Somebody disappears through a hole in the stacked ice every year. That’s what the security patrol said. I guess that event didn’t happen every year there because the base was on the west shore of the lake. The winds would have to be strong out of the east, but that base had been there since 1911 so I am sure there was history involved in the security patrols warnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted December 18, 2023 Share Posted December 18, 2023 3 minutes ago, Pat Riot said: That’s what the security patrol said. I guess that event didn’t happen every year there because the base was on the west shore of the lake. The winds would have to be strong out of the east, but that base had been there since 1911 so I am sure there was history involved in the security patrols warnings. I grew up on the east side. Grand Haven area. I get back when I can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 20 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: They are practicing to save people who have done just that. Imagine having to be the rescue swimmer in surf like that. ya , no thanks , i like calmer water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassnetguy50 Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 22 hours ago, watab kid said: seems to me thats how to wreck a perfectly good boat The impacts ruin a lot of knees too. Some of the smaller craft have give in the deck to lessen the impact on the crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 19 hours ago, sassnetguy50 said: The impacts ruin a lot of knees too. Some of the smaller craft have give in the deck to lessen the impact on the crew. had not thought of that but yes i can see that as a problem , ive been on some rough water but generally sitting down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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