Paraphrase. He struggled up to the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the
speeding yacht slapped him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth
made him gag and strangle. Desperately he struck out with strong strokes after
the receding lights of the yacht, but he stopped before he had swum fifty feet. A
certain coolheadedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been
in a tight place. There was a chance that his cries could be heard by someone
aboard the yacht, but that chance was slender and grew more slender as the
yacht raced on. He wrestled himself out of his clothes and shouted with all his
power. The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies; then
they were blotted out entirely by the night.
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