rescue swimmer

English

A Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter hovering over a United States Coast Guard boat while lowering a rescue swimmer during a search-and-rescue drill.

Noun

rescue swimmer (plural rescue swimmers)

  1. A person who rescues people who are stranded in water.
    • 2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      They had already found one life raft and lowered the rescue swimmer into the freezing ocean. It was empty. They left it inflated in case survivors reached it.

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