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[6] (Note that the 42-foot near shore lifeboat were decommissioned in 2021 and replaced with a pair of 45-foot RB-M craft [7]) The 47′ MLB is designed to weather hurricane force winds and heavy seas, capable of surviving winds up to 60 knots (110 km/h), breaking surf up to 6 m (20 ft) and impacts up to three G's . [ 3 ]
In contrast, a lifeboat is open, and regulations require a crew member to inspect it periodically and ensure all required equipment is present. [citation needed] Modern lifeboats have a motor; liferafts usually do not. Large lifeboats use a davit or launching system (there might be multiple lifeboats on one), that requires a human to launch.
The International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code [2] gives specific technical requirements for the manufacture, maintenance and record keeping of life-saving appliances. The number and type of life-saving appliances differ from vessel to vessel, and the code gives a minimum requirement to comply in order to make a ship seaworthy.
Inflatable Rescue Boats (IRBs) are rubber boats with an outboard motor used in surf lifesaving.IRBs have been used for all forms of surf rescue, retrieval, and service by Surf Lifesaving in New Zealand, Australia, and Del Mar, California since the late 1980s.
California: Station Cape Disappointment: 13: Columbia River Ilwaco: Washington: Home base for the National Motor Lifeboat School. [3] Station Chatham: 1: Southeastern New England Chatham: Massachusetts: Station Chetco River: 13: North Bend Brookings: Oregon [4] Station Coos Bay: 13: North Bend Charleston: Oregon [5] Station Depoe Bay: 13: North ...
Petty officers in pay grade E-7 and higher are chief petty officers and must attend the Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Academy, or an equivalent Department of Defense school, in order to be advanced to pay grade E-8. The basic themes of the school are: Professionalism; Leadership; Communications; Systems thinking and lifelong learning
Station Golden Gate is a designated Coast Guard surf station, where surf conditions greater than 8 feet (2.4 m) occur 36 days or more per year; [4] as a surf station, it operates three 47-foot Motor Lifeboats and two 29-foot Response Boats - Small (RB-S).
Some of the surf boats that the Coast Guard operates include the 47-foot Motor Lifeboat (MLB), the (now decommissioned) 44-foot MLB, 42-foot Near Shore Lifeboat (SPC-NLB) and the 52-foot MLB (the only "Boats" in the Coast Guard to be given names, such as Victory at Station Yaquina Bay, Oregon, the oldest steel motor lifeboat in the US Coast Guard).