MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay to hold annual aviation survival training

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Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay to hold annual aviation survival training

WHO: Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay personnel

WHAT: Scheduled to hold their annual aircrew survival training, known as "wet drills"

WHEN: Thursday at 8:30 a.m.

WHERE: Big Lagoon campgrounds within Big Lagoon County Park at 510 Big Lagoon Park Rd., Trinidad, CA 95570

Editor's Note: Media planning to attend the event are requested to RSVP to Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Ramos at 530-701-6744 by 5 p.m. Wednesday.

MCKINLEYVILLE, Calif. — Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay is scheduled to hold an annual aviation survival training at Big Lagoon County Park, Thursday.

The training is scheduled to include shooting pyrotechnics, land survival skills and in-water training, including dry suit and life raft familiarization.

Media personnel will have the chance to participate in all land training, as well as don a dry suit and do a short survival swim to a life raft located in Big Lagoon.

This training is provided to Coast Guard members involved in aviation-related missions and is essential to the safety of our crews who operate in some of the most extreme and hazardous environments in the United States.

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