retired surfman & 44393 crewman, u.s. coast guard

“Looking back, we never trained for going across [a breaking bar at night] without bar lights. We depended on those bar lights in a way we shouldn’t have…

If I were still in [and training units], I would look at each surf station and take away or change the tools they depend on, and see how they respond to that… Take away [a reference] someone has always relied on.  Then what?