i am from Florida and the Coast Guard never gets the attention they deserve, they risk their lives every day for us and guard us from our enemies

If you ever spend time at Cape Hatteras National Shore in North Carolina, you will find the place a treasure trove of the early history of the US Lifesaving Service, which ultimately became the US Coast Guard. That's where I first heard the motto "You have to go out, and that's a fact, but nothing says you have to come back." The rescues those men performed were legendary, and the Coasties continue that work today.

3:11:"He said that 'God was on our side.'" Amen!

"None over the age of 24" The youngest of men have the greatest courage, that's just a fact of life.

The main reason why the 36500 had those engine problems was that the 36500 (and the other 3600 series motor lifeboats) were powered by a Sterling Petrel inline-6 gasoline engine. Because it is carbureted, it had a tendency to stall in very rough seas.

Twenty three years after this, another Bernie would do something very similar to Webber, only on Lake Superior with Bernie Cooper turning the Arthur M. Anderson around to look for Edmund Fitzgerald survivors in another brutal storm.

Has anyone heard of the Penlee Lifeboat disaster.

Surely there would have been more than ONE Compass on a Coastguard Lifeboat! Even if the Boat didn’t have a Secondary Fixed Compass at least one of them would have a pocket Compass?

3:55 "Dick Rider" lol