Coast Guard Man Overboard Training

ASTORIA, Oregon A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Astoria searches for a training dummy during a man-overboard drill with the Columbia River Bar Pilots west of the Columbia River entrance, Nov. 8, 2010.

The Coast Guard and the Columbia River Bar Pilots began conducting the semi-annual joint drill in 2009 and continue to practice man-overboard retrieval techniques to ensure that procedures for locating a person in the water will run smoothly as they work together.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nate Littlejohn