A hazard to tour U.S. Coast Guard vessels and watch a 3-pronged ocean rescue introduced boaters and 
landlubbers alike to Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard for the Safe Boating Expo on Saturday.
“We pressure by using this each day to get to our residence and continually puzzled what became right here,” Silver Strand resident Don Menzel said whilst standing out of doors the Coast Guard station on South Victoria Avenue.
Menzel, a retired TV news cameraman, and spouse Paula Menzel spent a few hours at the event touring the 87-foot cutter Blacktip, boarding a pair of forty five-foot emergency reaction boats, traveling display cubicles and looking an ocean rescue demonstration that covered a Coast Guard helicopter, a fireboat, and a non-public-watercraft group.
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The 14th annual event, hosted by the Coast Guard, turned into predicted to convey more than 1,000 traffic, said Henry Goldman, a Coast Guard Auxiliary public affairs officer and chair of the expo.
“We get a great turnout,” Goldman said of the occasion aimed toward secure boating for households.
About 2 hundred new lifestyles jackets had been given out in exchange for tired ones. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad changed into available to simply accept out-of-date flares, that are difficult to get rid of correctly, Goldman stated. The Oxnard Police Department, National Weather Service and plenty of other corporations had representatives there.
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians from Gold Coast Ambulance and its discern organization, American Medical Response, brought several mannequin torsos to demonstrate a new CPR technique that does away with rescue respiratory.
“Teaching fingers-most effective CPR is large for us,” stated Charles Arevalo, an emergency clinical technician.
Coast Guard individuals showed off vessels they use for patrol and emergency response, while uniformed Coast Guard cadets directed site visitors and explored the boats. Vessels from the Channel Islands station generally cover a place from Point Conception to Point Dume, going up to 50 miles offshore.
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Members of the general public were given to poking thru the engine room, major deck and bridge of the Blacktip. The cutter’s cook, a culinary college graduate, turned into uniformly praised for whipping up elegantly supplied food like red meat Wellington, a reality noted at the side of engine horsepower and water tank capacity.
On the smaller emergency reaction boats — which have only numeric names — team individuals were additionally eager to show off their rides. Engines on the forty-five-foot craft provide a blended 1,650 horsepower, letting them attain 40 knots or so.
“That’s pretty brief for a brick within the water,” one team member informed a traveler.
Seaman Ethan Hanson said he and other crew members loved the possibility to reveal the general public what they do.
