Meanings of struggling swimmer in English

I'd learned enough about water rescues to keep a struggling swimmer off your body.

Through them, like a struggling swimmer in broken water, came the perplexing question, what am I to do to-morrow?

They had got over half the distance; less than half a cable's length was now between the boat and the struggling swimmer.

The police have named the man who died in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour while trying to help a struggling swimmer on Tuesday night.

The police had earlier said that the friend who tried to help the struggling swimmer was in Middlemore Hospital in a moderate condition.

For that group on the lawn were like a rather eager rescue party, holding out hands to a struggling swimmer in the social surf.

Billy Brackett and Winn rowed in every direction about the raft so long as there was the slightest hope of picking up a struggling swimmer.

A man who stood under the cliffs while the poor struggling swimmer fought southward, had a bad reputation in every village from Spittal to Cullercoates.