Hooker

Volunteer safety hooker Don Houghton Jr. at the 2023 Memphremagog Winter Swimming Festival, photo courtesy of Kathleene Marcil

noun - A safety hooker is a person with a safety harness apparatus who walks up and down the edge of winter swimming events whose responsibility is to rescue a swimmer in trouble by attaching the apparatus around their body to pull the troubled swimmer out of cold water.

Synonyms

second, safety personnel, safety hooker

External links

• Celebrate International Be Kind to Your Yacker Month
• When Hookers Hang Around Swimmers, It Is A Good Thing
• Open Water Swimming