Offer a tow line, but most importantly, take one.
Parasailors have been dragged across the water, a tow line from their boat breaks, or they crash into an object, like a building.
Halfway through his two-week ordeal, he was joined by a sailor from a rescue tug who helped him secure a tow line.
It was on a tow line, grimed in bottom mud and skirted in the airbags that had brought it to the surface.
If we're having a low moment, we grab a tow line from someone stronger and get lightly pulled along until we recover.
Taking advantage of a break in the weather, salvage crews on Sunday attached a tow line to a drilling rig that ran aground last week in the Gulf of Alaska.
It was en route to a scrapyard in the Dominican Republic in 2012 when a tow line snapped, leaving it stranded in Canada's Avalon Peninsula and beginning this nightmarish chapter in its history.
A tow line from the Kulluk was connected to a tug shortly after midnight, and the rig was reconnected to the Aiviq, its power restored, at 5 a.m. on Monday.
Because swimming against the current is ineffective and we need to cover a large area, we pull Emmett on a tow line behind the boat as he searches for the corals that used to harbor the sponges containing eusocial shrimp.
Robert Gretz, an investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said that when the plane took off from Lakewood Airport, the pilot, using standard procedure, snared the banner -- which read "Seton Hall, Go Pirates" -- with a hook attached to a tow line.
TALONS takes the instruments that would normally be mounted atop the superstructure and gives them a tow line and parachute.
