Rescue can be tricky, safety is job one. I have learned how to pick up swimmers from a few years of pulling kids on tubes. There is no fast way to do it and you have to have a protocol to follow to avoid injury. Always keep a conservative distance unless life is in danger. Even tossing the water bottles at the sailors was a little goosey at times with that wind, I bumped a young lady on a Wave once, thank God for inventing rotomold.