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Keeper:

The Keeper has general supervision. Selects place to bury sand anchor and position for gun. Places gun in position. Provides cartridge, pick, primer, and lanyard. Loads and sights gun and determines elevation. Picks cartridge, primes, and fires gun. Signals wreck to haul off whip. Lighrs hawser to surf. Hitches whip around neck of buoy block and bends buoy-briddle to whip. Raises center of crotch.

Surfman No. 1:

Assists Keeper to place gun in position; provides shot and holds for Number 2 to bend shot line to insert shot in bore; trains gun, bends shot line around whip; attends left part of whip; if on lee side, bends whip to hawser; holds breeches buoy block while Keeper bends on whip, and then snaps lock on hawser; mans fall and left leg of crotch.

Surfman No. 2:

Places shot line box in position; bends shot line to shot; trains gun; takes a half-hitch with shot line over tail of whip block; attends right part of whip; if on lee side bends whip to hawser; holds breeches buoy block while Keeper bends on whip, then snaps block on hawser; mans fall and right leg of crotch.

Surfman No. 3:

Places shot line box in position; stretches tackle (outer block); hauls whip from reel while it is being hauled off to wreck, and if on lee side, does the same while hawser is being hauled off; hauls in slack of hawser; bends strap on chain tail for outer block of tackle; mans fall and left leg of crotch; is shifting man on whip.

Surfman No. 4:

Unloads buoy from cart; palces crotch, hawser, and buoy in position, stretches tackle and hooks inner block into sand anchor pendant; hauls whip from reel while it is being hauled off to the wreck, and if on lee side, does same the same while the hawser is being hauled off; hauls in slack of hawser; hooks outer block of tackle; mans fall and right leg of crotch; is shifting man on whip.

Surfman No. 5:

Opens and secures boat room doors; unloads sand anchor, shovels and pick, and buries sand anchor; mans weather part of whip when hauling off hawser; hauls in slack of hawser; hooks inner block if penndant block is used; mans and belays fall; is shifting man on whip.

Surfman No. 6:

Opens and secures boat room doors; unloads sand anchor, shovels and pick, and buries sand anchor; mans weather part of whip when hauling off hawser; hauls in slack of hawser, snatches hawser, and makes cat's paw if pennant block is used; mans fall and center of crotch; is shifting man on whip.

Surfman No. 7:

In drill, goes to wreck pole; in service unloads shovels and pick and assists in burying sand anchor; mans weather part of whip when hauling off hawser; hauls in slack of hawser; mans fall and center of crotch; is shifting man on whip.

Surfman No. 8:

In drill, goes to wreck pole; in service unloads shovels and pick and assists in burying sand anchor; mans weather part of whip when hauling off hawser; hauls in slack of hawser; mans fall and center of crotch; is shifting man on whip.

source: National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior