drowning victim
Lost to water
A drowning victim is someone who has drowned or is in the process of drowning.
The phrase appears in news reports, rescue training, and legal contexts: Lifeguards pulled the drowning victim from the pool.
In water safety, the term distinguishes those actually drowning from distressed swimmers who can still call for help—drowning victims typically cannot.
- waterClear essential liquid
- rescueSave from harm
- search and rescueFinding and saving people
- water safetyPreventing drowning and accidents
- CPREmergency revival technique
mouth to mouth · lungs · struggling · surface · body · river · pool · ocean · shallow water · rip current · blue · breath · gasping · last breath · call for help · submerged · emergency · tragedy
- missing peoplemissing child, lost child, lost hiker, lost tourist, abductee